Although UK resident tax-exempt shareholders lost the right to repayment of tax credits oil dividends paid by UK resident companies in July 1997, they could continue to receive tax credit repayments in respect of dividend, received from Irish resident companies until December 1998. In July 1997...

Individuals investing in a Venture Capital Trust IPO listed on the London Stock Exchange receive a number of conditional tax incentives; the time related nature of the associated conditions can create a "lock in effect". By deriving and testing a model of the value of these incentives we examine...

We examine whether requiring versus allowing conditional capitalisation of development expenditure affects the extent to which capitalisation conveys more information about future earnings, relative to expensing. UK GAAP (SSAP 13) permitted, but not required, conditional capitalisation of...

Theoretically driven, market-based contingent claims models have recently been applied to the field of corporate insolvency prediction in an attempt to provide the art with a theoretical methodology that has been lacking in the past. Limited studies have been carried out in order directly to...

The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of six variables on auditor independence and the reliability of financial statements as perceived within the Irish commercial environment and to explore the reasons underlying these perceptions. The six variables comprised of audit firm...