PurposeTo empirically explore empirically the underlying factors that may affect the extent to which forward-looking information is disclosed.MethodologyThis study uses a list of forward-looking keywords to demonstrate the differences, if any, in the level of disclosure among firms and between...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of financial reports to users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an attempt to find out whether current practices satisfy users' needs of information and the extent to which these needs have been satisfied by the current disclosure...

This study examines the differences in the relationships between different stakeholders in conventional and Islamic financial institutions. The accounting and finance literature identifies the major contractual relationships as being those between managers and shareholders (employment contracts)...

The role of company specific information in valuation is important. In this paper, we explore company specific information as considered by the UAE's financial analysts. A questionnaire and interviews were used to answer the research questions of this study. Thirty-five investment analysts, in...

This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of firm specific characteristics on corporate financial disclosures amongst UAE companies. A total of 153 public, joint-stock companies, listed and unlisted, were incorporated at the time of study. Both descriptive statistics and multiple...

This research is motivated by interest in recent changes in the audit approaches of audit firms. The business risk audit approach has been adopted based on assertions about its benefits by administrators of large audit firms and academics linked with these firms and, more recently, has been...

The paper presents a new methodology for evaluating corporate voluntary disclosures in the annual report discussion section. Based on a new dataset of electronic annual reports and a standard text analysis software package, we text-search a large number of annual reports at minimal (marginal)...

We extend prior research into the association between disclosure quality and share price anticipation of earnings by discriminating between firms that report profits and firms that report losses. As a measure of disclosure quality we count the number of forward-looking profit statements in...

Purpose – This paper examines the impact of audit quality, measured by financial statements audited by the big four accounting firms, on the investors' ability to predict future earnings for profitable and unprofitable firms.Methodology – The paper uses the returns-earnings regression model...