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recourir à deux auditeurs se solde notamment par une moindre concentration du marché de l’audit : les Big Four détiennent une … conduisent à avancer que des assouplissements réglementaires du marché de l’audit pourraient s’avérer bénéfiques pour les … the effects of the French regulation aimed at promoting external auditor independence. For listed companies, the joint-audit …
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This study investigates board characteristics best practices in the particular context of European listed companies. The theoretical grounding of the paper is done by discussing board composition and board compensation related studies, mainly belonging to the corporate governance literature. The...
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Through this paper the authors are trying to highlight the strategic role that internal audit function holds in … increasing the efficiency of corporate governance. The research starts with a comprehensive approach to internal audit and … internal control, our intention being to identify synergies between the internal audit function and its impact on the quality …
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The purpose of this research paper aims the study of actual corporate governance of the listed entities on the capital market. For the empirical study, we chose a segment of top banks in Romania, some of them being listed. On the research demarche we have proceeded to an analysis on the manner...
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This paper examines the conditions under which case studies appear to be a particularly well suited empirical method. From a methodological point of view, the choice should be guided by the very nature of the research question and of the conceptual framework. Dynamic modeling of the link between...
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We argue on theoretical grounds that obligatory compliance with stricter financial reporting rules (e.g. the US Sabanes-Oxley Act) may entail important unintended consequences. Paradoxically, the amount of misreporting may increase because corporate boards spend more valuable resources...
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Using an experimental design that exploits exogenous reductions in coverage resulting from brokerage house mergers, we find that a reduction in coverage causes a deterioration in financial reporting quality. The effect of coverage on disclosure is more pronounced for firms with weak shareholder...
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effect on the governance structures of firms. We find that audit committee members and outside directors of firms that … the detection of these weaknesses. We also find that the market reacts positively to the improvement in audit committee …
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In this paper, by using a database of Portuguese and Brazilian firms, where the Latin Corporate Governance Model is traditionally predominant but increasingly out of fashion, we investigate whether the Latin Corporate Governance Model performs worse or better than others (variants of the...
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The issue of hybrid instruments by firms is often justified on the grounds that these instruments allow issuers to achieve a lower cost of capital than would be the case under issues of straight debt and equity. In order to assess the validity of such claims it is necessary to examine the...
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