Real Effects of Accounting Rules: Evidence from Multinational Firms' Investment Location and Profit Repatriation Decisions
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Graham, John R.
Hanlon, Michelle
Shevlin, Terry
Date Issued
January 2011
Journal
Journal of Accounting Research
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Wiley Blackwell
Citation
Graham, John R., Michelle Hanlon, and Terry Shevlin. “Real Effects of Accounting Rules: Evidence from Multinational Firms’ Investment Location and Profit Repatriation Decisions.” Journal of Accounting Research 49.1 (2011): 137–185.
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Abstract
We analyze survey responses from nearly 600 tax executives to better understand corporate decisions about real investment location and profit repatriation. Our evidence indicates that avoiding financial accounting income tax expense is as important as avoiding cash income taxes when corporations decide where to locate operations and whether to repatriate foreign earnings. This result is important in light of the recent research about whether financial accounting affects investment and in light of the decades of research on foreign investment that examines the role of cash income taxes but heretofore has not investigated the importance of financial reporting effects. Our analysis suggests that financial reporting is an important factor to be considered in the policy debates focused on bringing investment to the United States.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-679X.2010.00395.x
