Dans le cadre de ce papier, nous confrontons la perception de l'utilité de 72 items d'informations volontaires de 40 analystes financiers tunisiens avec le degré de leur divulgation dans les rapports annuels de 24 entreprises cotées à la BVMT. L'analyse est menée sur des données primaires...

L'information volontaire diffusée dans les rapports annuels devient un enjeu de communication de plus en plus important. Dans le cadre de ce travail de recherche exploratoire, nous étudions à travers une enquête par questionnaire, la perception de l'utilité de l'information volontaire dans...

In this study, we investigate whether U.S. high-technology firms are more or less conditionally conservative relative to low-technology firms. If U.S. high-tech firms are required to expense immediately all R&D costs according to the accounting standard SFAS 2, which reflects unconditional...

This study examines the association between real earnings management, governance attributes, and IPO failure risk. Using a sample of 4174 IPOs firms that went public over the period of 1998-2011, we find evidence that real earnings management and governance attributes are associated with IPO...

This paper examines whether research and development (R&D) intensity affects the firm’s financing decisions. We use a sample of European firms in the period 2002-2011. We argue that R&D asset has three fundamentals characteristics that make it different from ordinary investment and constrain...

Corporate governance has drawn much attention with recent managerial misbehavior and corporate scandals. Various laws and reports around the world came up with propositions and regulation to restore confidence and reinforce investor protection. La Porta, Lopez, Shleifer and Vishny (LLSV...

Credit–risk evaluation is a very important and challenging problem for financial institutions. Many classification methods have been suggested in the literature to tackle this problem. Neural networks have especially received a lot of attention because of their universal approximation...

This study examines the incremental impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the market valuation of the discretionary component of banks' provision for loan losses. The SOX provides an interesting context for testing the efficacy of corporate governance provisions developed in the professional...

This study examines the incremental impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the market valuation of the discretionary component of banks' provision for loan losses. The SOX act provides an interesting context for testing the efficacy of corporate governance provisions developed in the...

Cette étude vérifie l'effet de la gouvernance d'entreprise sur la pertinence des bénéfices. La gouvernance est synthétisée en six axes. Leur introduction dans l'association bénéfices-rendements d'un échantillon américain montre un effet significatif de la gouvernance sur la pertinence.