This paper examines the relationship between ownership structure and earnings management in Vietnam. The governance structure of companies in Vietnam is characterized by the dominance of largest shareholders, who often makes significant influences on direct or indirect management decisions....

This study investigates the association between institutional investors' ownership and sell-side analysts' stock recommendations in the context of the heterogeneous nature of institutional investors. Based on a sample of 281 Malaysian public listed companies over the period 2008-2013 (732...

Budgets are a compass and guiding light for businesses. Therefore, management and owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) must carry out suitable and precise capital budgeting activities and methods to ensure business longevity and progression. There is a high risk of SMEs failing soon...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the proximity, knowledge as well as the source of knowledge about the profession and students' perception of the auditing profession in Vietnam. The data is collected using quantitative techniques based on a questionnaire survey...

The study investigates the key factors affecting the professional skepticism of independent auditors in Vietnam. The factors that are studied in this research include knowledge and experience, workload, time pressure, and incentives that affect professional skepticism of independent auditors....

The adoption of the international financial reporting standard (IFRS) has become an important research topic and received considerable attention from many empirical researchers worldwide. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, it's one of the very few efforts to examine the relationship...

This study investigates whether national culture influences judgments made by Polish and British accounting professionals when interpreting selected International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that contain uncertainty expressions. We provide evidence from the Central and Eastern European...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the phenomenon of earnings management and its impact on accounting performance at the time of the listing event. The analysis is based on a sample of 189 firms listing their securities on the Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam stock exchange for the period of 2009...

Textual attribute integrated reporting refers to the difficulty level of readability and word length (narrative) of the information disclosed. The conciseness of information requires minimizing the length of words (narrative), offset by the increased readability of the integrated reporting. A...

This study, which analysed the profitability of 42 reinsurers in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2020, revealed that various factors such as gross domestic product, competition (HHI), premium growth, investment performance, underwriting risk, and operational efficiency affect the profitability...