This paper examines how the Australian Quality Council and the European Foundation for Quality Management address …

Purpose – An increasing number of organisations in developing countries are implementing management accounting … innovations in order to generate improvements in accounting practices, which should ultimately impact on financial performance …. This study aims to focus on the implementation of one such innovation, total quality management (TQM), among apparel …

addressed to ensure effective control. Business systems should be reviewed to verify that reliable management information is … business units. Human resource management should ensure that suitable people are appointed and motivated to run the company …

has improved under the new accounting regime, especially for companies with non-Big 4 auditors. Originality/value – Prior …

decisions made by the auditors and management in the Adelphia accounting scandal. Findings – The paper finds that accounting may …

, especially in the area of audit reliability. However, results also indicate that although the introduction of accounting scandal …

of outside directors and institutional ownership concentration and to explore the relative roles of accounting- and stock … accounting performance. This is consistent with institutional investors using a richer set of information than that contained in … reported accounting earnings. Research limitations/implications – Further research may examine the effect of board monitoring …