Kate Jelinek
University of Rhode Island
10 Papers
98 Citations
Kate Jelinek is an academic researcher from University of Rhode Island. The author has contributed to research in topics: Audit & Expense ratio. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Kate Jelinek include College of Business Administration.
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Papers
The nonlinear relation between agency costs and managerial equity ownership: Evidence of decreasing benefits of increasing ownership
Kate Jelinek,Pamela S. Stuerke +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of managerial equity ownership on return on assets as a measure of profitability and two financial statement-based agency cost measures, i.e., asset utilization and an expense ratio, which proxy for management's efficiency in use of assets and perquisite consumption, respectively.
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Auditors gone wild: The “other” problem in public accounting
Ronald Jelinek,Kate Jelinek +1 more
TL;DR: Workplace deviance in accounting firms has been examined in this paper. But the authors focus on the Big 4 accounting firms and focus on a specific type of deviance: the voluntary behavior of organizational members that violates significant organizational norms and, in so doing, threatens the well being of the organization and/or its members.
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The Nonlinear Relation between Agency Costs and Managerial Equity Ownership: Evidence of Decreasing Benefits of Increasing Ownership*
Kate Jelinek,Pamela S. Stuerke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of managerial equity ownership on two financial-statement based agency cost measures: asset utilization and an expense ratio, which proxy for management's efficiency in use of assets and perquisite consumption.
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Will and Caroline: Accounting, professional integrity and lobbying
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case to increase familiarity with professional integrity, as described in the AICPA's Code of Conduct, and enhance understanding of how integrity might influence the behavior and conduct of both accountants and accounting firms.
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Deviance at RKGA LLP
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors relate the topic of workplace deviance to students entering the accounting profession and present a case study that relates the story of a senior manager with a large regional firm who is assigned the onerous task of investigating partners' numerous complaints of observing audit firm members engaging in behavior such as taking extra-long lunches, running personal errands during work hours, and needlessly surfing the Internet while at client locations.
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