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This thesis examines whether the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) affects audit fees among listed European firms. Using a firm-year panel dataset from 2017 to 2025 and a difference-in-differences research design, the study compares firms directly subject to CSRD-related reporting requirements with non-mandated firms before and after the directive’s initial
The basic purpose of this study is to observe the association between firm sustainability and board quality, along with examining the moderating effect of the sustainability committee. Agency theory, resource dependence theory, stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, and upper echelons theory are used as the theoretical bases of this study. Agency theory describes the supervising role of directors,
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how local police managers in the Swedish Police Authority navigate the relationship between centrally designed management control and local operational practice. Methodology: The study follows a qualitative, abductive case study design, using the Swedish Police Authority as the empirical setting. Data were collected through semi-structured intervie
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firms react to covenant pressure pre-breach event by adjusting their operational and financial strategies. Methodology: The econometric approach of choice is a firm fixed effects panel regression on the sample of firm-year observations. The regressions use a treated form of interest coverage slack as the main explanatory variable, while
This study examines whether environmental performance and Republican political alignment explain abnormal returns around the 2024 U.S. election, and whether political alignment moderates this relationship. The results show positive aggregate abnormal returns around the election. Firms with higher environmental performance experienced lower cumulative abnormal returns, suggesting that investors rea
Purpose: To examine whether an acquirer’s risk exposure affects the acquisition premium paid in public-to-public M&A transactions, specifically isolating the effects of leverage and stock return volatility alongside the moderating role of free cash flow. Methodology: The study employs multivariate OLS regressions with year and industry fixed effects and heteroskedasticity-robust standard erro
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how the market-implied value of financial flexibility, measured through the VOFF composite of Rapp et al. (2014), relates to firm-level capital investment decisions, and to investigate whether financial flexibility moderates the negative effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on investment. Methodology: The study applies a deductive quantitativ
Seminar Date: 2026-06-04 Course: BUSN79, Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Victor Damberg, Jonatan Svanbom Advisor/Examiner: Diem Nguyen & Reda Moursli Five key words: CDS Spreads, Leverage, Asset Tangibility, Financial Distress Risk, Redeployability Purpose: To investigate whether asset tangibility weakens the positive association between leverage and market-implied
Seminar date: 2026-06-04 Course: BUSN79 - Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Marcus Brodin and Sebastian Dolk Persson Advisor/Examiner: Reda Moursli/Diem Nguyen Key words: Spin-Off, Transition Risk, Carbon Intensity, Credit Default Swap Spread, Probability of Default. Purpose: This paper examines how spin-offs affect the parent firm's credit default swap spread and probability
Purpose: To examine whether generative AI adoption influences analyst forecast error and bias, and whether the relationship differs across firms with different characteristics. Methodology: The study applies a quantitative panel-data approach using pooled OLS and firm fixed effects regressions. Interaction models are used to examine whether firm size, segment complexity, intangible intensity an
Seminar date: 2026-06-02 Course: BUSN79 Degree Project in Accounting & Finance, 15 credits Authors: Melker Olsson and Mattias Selde Advisor/Examiner: Anders Anell / Elin Funck Five key words: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Performance Measurement Systems, Swedish Municipalities, Simons’ Levers of Control Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of how performance measure
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how accountants in Swedish SMEs perceive their professional role and navigate multiple expectations related to regulatory compliance, business support, and organisational demands. Methodology: The study used a qualitative research approach with a multiple case study of ten Swedish SMEs. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data that w
Seminar date: 3 June 2026 Course: BUSN79 - Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Lukas Kerkewitz, Oliver Kurz Advisor/Examiner: Amanda Sonnerfeldt/Liesel Klemcke Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the enactment of accounting practices through professional judgement by accountants in the context of a dual accounting framework environment in German group financial re
Course: BUSN79, Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Didrik Liljeström & Evie van der Linden Advisor/Examiner: Johan Dergård/Diem Nguyen Five key words: Investment Efficiency, Under/Overinvestment, Geopolitical Uncertainty/Risk, Accounting Quality, Earnings Management Purpose: This study investigates whether high-quality accounting acts as a determinant for efficient investmen
Seminar date: 2026-06-02 Course: BUSN79 - Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Filippa Johnson & André Malmberg Advisor / Examiner: Reda Moursli / Elias Bengtsson Five keywords: Dividend Smoothing, Credit Rating, Fallen Angel, Investment-Grade, Speculative-Grade. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between dividend smoothing and credit ratings, m
