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Recent corporate failure has challenged the credibility of the accounting profession, leading many stakeholders to … question the usefulness of financial reports for decision-making. This paper examines fluctuations in the accounting profession …’s authoritative influence over accounting standard setting and financial reporting. It focuses on the period following the collapse of …
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not investigated the impact of natural calamities like flood and drought on accounting choices. This paper makes an … original contribution to the accounting literature by documenting evidence on the extent to which an act of nature, over which … management has little or no control, can influence accounting choices. …
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With the prevalence of international markets comes the need for universal accounting standards. The International … Accounting Standards Board has created a set of these standards, but unfortunately some skeptics have found that the obstacles of … of China, India, and Australia, it has been found that it is possible to have the same accounting standards among diverse …
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There has been limited accounting history research in the areas of nonprofit organisations and women in a non …-business environment. This paper addresses these two gaps by considering accounting history in a large female-managed nonprofit … unknown about the struggle to develop appropriate accounting practices in the context of organisational culture and history …
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A study's purpose was to investigate the relationship among client satisfaction, attributes of audit quality, auditor change, and controller work experience. To address this purpose, controllers of Fortune 1000 companies were asked to evaluate their existing auditor on each of 12 dimensions of...
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This dissertation examines the litigation and legal liability exposure of auditors related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Three separate studies were conducted to examine how auditor s litigation exposure is evaluated by potential litigants (lawyers), and how auditor liability is...
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This paper examines the accounting and auditing practices in non-governmental organizations. It seeks to understand … accounting processes and reporting practices in non-governmental organizations. Nongovernmental organizations have become … important institutions in world affairs but accounting research has not developed significant interest in their operations and …
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