The Changing Role of Accounting Numbers in Public Lending Agreements
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Abstract
The use of accounting number in loan agreement is an important part of the demand for accounting information. We examine new public debt contrast from three time periods to investigate the changing role of accounting number of public lending agreements, nothing a dramatic decline in the use of accounting numbers over the last quarter century. Accounting-based covenants restricting dividends and additional borrowing appear in less than 10 percent of the most recent sample of debt contracts examined. Moreover, accounting-based covenants included in public debt contracts tend to focus more one cash flow numbers and less on balance sheet measures of leverage than in the past. The evidence presented here suggests that recently executed public covenants provide little incentive for managers to manipulate accounting numbers. We also find a declining correlation between leverage and use of accounting-based debt covenants in public debt This finding suggests that leveragema not be a good proxy for public debt covenant slack in accounting policy choice studies.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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