This e-book explores the impact of corporate governance practices within the framework of accounting issues to illustrate the importance of financial statements and the role governance plays in maintaining accounting quality. The authors highlight the importance of contextual factors in corporate governance research that is based on different organizational and institutional environments, and are in many ways complementary, as the focus on corporate governance mechanisms that inform capital markets. Taken together, they represent a comprehensive overview of current corporate governance research and suggest a number of opportunities for future studies.