Grahame Boocock and Margaret Woods are Lecturers in Banking and Finance, andFinancial Management, respectively at Loughborough University Business School,England. The paper examines how venture fund managers select their investeecompanies, by exploring the evaluation criteria and the decision...

This paper reviews the origins and development of the value chain (Porter,1985) and its development into value shops and value networks. We argue that these “value models” pay insufficient attention to the increasing role of information and communications technology (ICT) or to the emergence...

Definitions and perceptions of the role and styles of risk management, and performance management/strategic control systems have evolved over time, but it can be argued that risk management is primarily concerned with ensuring the achievement of strategic objectives. This paper shows the extent...

This paper critically reviews the evolution of financial reporting in the banking sector with specific reference to the reporting of market risk and the growing utilisation of the measure known as Value at Risk (VaR). The paper investigates the process by which VaR became 'institutionalised'....

This paper reviews the way in which auditing issues have been raised and addressed during the credit crunch and developing global financial crisis. Analysis is based on a review of the academic auditing literature, regulatory and audit reports, together with articles from the financial press....

The increasing adoption of international accounting standards and global convergence of accounting regulations is frequently heralded as serving to reduce diversity in financial reporting practice. In a process said to be driven in large part by the interests of international business and global...

One of the more memorable moments of last summer's credit crunch came when the CFO of Goldman Sachs, David Viniar, announced in August that Goldman's flagship GEO hedge fund had lost 27% of its value since the start of the year. As Mr. Viniar explained, "We were seeing things that were...