The omission of IC information may adversely influence the quality of decisions made by shareholders, or lead to material misstatements. This study attempts to provide an insight into the style of IC disclosures done by the IT-sector corporations from India and Australia. We conducted a...

Budgets are commonly used for multiple purposes. Whereas planning budgets reflect organisations' 'best guesses' of future events, control budgets are intended to motivate high levels of effort. Budgetary control mechanisms modelled in a principal-agent setting typically find that the use of such...

This paper investigates whether the ownership structure influences the risk taking of the Tunisian quoted banks over the period 2000-2008. Overall, it can be gathered from the results of this study that the effect of ownership structure on bank risk taking varies according to the type of risk....

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the hedging strategies performance of a range of copula and traditional methods for three spot and futures oil markets: WTI crude oil, propane and heating oil. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we model dependence structure between spot and futures oil...