| Variables | Definitions |
| Lnfee | Natural logarithm of audit costs |
| In-number | Number of internet business model disclosures |
| In-behave | Action index, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 distribution |
| FI | Investment in financial instruments, Transactional financial assets + derivative financial assets + net loans and advances + net available-for-sale financial assets + net held-to-maturity investments + net investment real estate + net repurchases)/total assets of the consolidated statement |
| KZK | Parent company long-term equity investment, parent company long-term equity investment/consolidated statement total assets |
| KZ | Parent company controlled investment, (Transactional financial assets + derivative financial assets + net loans and advances + net available-for-sale financial assets + net held-to-maturity investments + net investment real estate + net repurchases)/Total assets in the consolidated statement |
| Behave*FI | Intersection of In-behave and FI |
| Behave*KZK | Intersection of In-behave and KZK |
| Behave*KZ | Intersection of In-behave and KZ |
| Num*FI | Intersection of In-number and FI |
| Num*KZK | Intersection of In-number and KZK |
| Num*KZ | Intersection of In-number and KZ |
| Size | Company size, natural logarithm of company total assets |
| Big 4 | Dummy variable, the accounting firm is 1 for the Big Four, otherwise it is 0 |
| Lever | Financial leverage, total liabilities/total assets |
| Inv | Proportion of inventory, total inventory/total assets |
| Rec | Percentage of accounts receivable, total accounts receivable/asset |
| Tunnel | Percentage of other accounts receivable, other accounts receivable/total assets |
| Growth | Sales growth rate |
| Roe | Return on equity, profit after tax/total equity |
| Loss | Dummy variable with a loss of 1, otherwise 0 |