This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of firm specific characteristics on corporate financial disclosures amongst UAE companies. A total of 153 public, joint-stock companies, listed and unlisted, were incorporated at the time of study. Both descriptive statistics and multiple...

This study examines the level and structure of CEO compensation of 2,448 CEO’s from 1,622 firms spanning a range extending from 1997 through 2002. Based on agency and expectancy theories, this study tests the hypotheses that corporate diversification is associated with CEO compensation....

Recent research suggests that the mispricing of asset growth can explain the accruals anomaly. We reexamine this issue by focusing on the role of accounting manipulations in stock mispricing. Specifically, we hypothesize that accounting manipulations are at the root of the accruals anomaly but...

The main purpose of this study is to examine empirically the determinants of audit delay in two developing countries, the UAE and Bahrain. This study utilizes a sample of 83 firms using the accounting and market data available for 2004. The sample firms are all listed in either the UAE or...