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Corporate governance and board accounts: exploring a neglected interface between boards of directors and management
Authors:Daniel Johanson
Institution:(1) Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway
Abstract:There is an absence of research about what information boards of directors have access to and how they use that information. The purpose of this paper is to explore and theorize about the content and use of information to boards of directors. The paper introduces and elaborates on the concept of ‘board accounts’, which is defined as the information supplied to boards of directors by top-management. The paper locates the board accounts in the Swedish institutional setting and demonstrates how the concept can be operationalized in an empirical setting. On the basis of a unique material of archived board records in a Swedish company, the paper explores the board accounts over a period of 10 years (1989–1998). It is found that while use of the board accounts in the case study company changes considerably over time, the content of the board accounts remains largely unchanged. This raises questions about where and when directors receive information, the reliability of the information in the board accounts, and recent attempts to integrate corporate governance and management accounting (CIMA, Performance reporting to boards: a guide to good practice, 2003; CIMA strategic scorecard: boards engaging in strategy, 2005; Seal, Management Accounting Research 17(4):389–408, 2006). Finally, the paper discusses the merits of historical archive-based approaches in this field and possibilities for future research.
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Daniel Johanson   is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in Bergen. His research is currently focused on how boards of directors work with accounting information and the diffusion of corporate governance codes.
Keywords:Corporate governance  Boards of directors  Management  Board accounts  Management accounting  Corporate strategy  Archive-based approach
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