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Linguistic features of M&A comment letters, specifically readability and valuation focus, serve as early warning signals for goodwill impairment risk, particularly in weakly governed firms. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

June 1, 2026China Journal of Accounting ResearchOpen Access

Predicting Goodwill Impairment from M&A Comment Letters: An Explainable Machine Learning Approach

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HTHongqin TangXiamen University JHJialan HuangXiamen University N(Nan Li (155066)Northwestern Polytechnical University

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Tang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a244cca8175479007ab56cb https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjar.2026.100504

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