This paper attempts to provide a summary of findings of the fast-growing theoretical and empirical literature on audit committee mainly basing on several available articles. Particular emphasis was given on the issues like the conflicts arising from the relationship between managers and...

The corporate governance as environment/framework in which it evolves the audit function, was analyzed from the conceptual point of view starting from the unanimous definition that was found in the OECD principles and continuing with the corporative governments attributes which define it. The...

This study examines the relationship between the internal corporate governance mechanism related to the board of directors, the audit committee characteristics and the performance of the Saudi companies listed in the Saudi stock exchange (TADAWL) in 2010, excluding financial companies. The...

The authors describe emerging hot topics in management accounting systems (MCS) as discussed during the international conference held at University of Economics, Prague, in September 2006. This paper underpins all relevant aspects of MCS ranging from corporate governance, through planning and...

We aim at giving a general view of the context in which appears the latest accounting evolutions, linked with the actual financialization of the financial market. Isn’t there a risk that the new IFRS standards and their concern about transparency and comparability impoverish the information by...

L’introduction depuis le 1er janvier 2005 des normes IAS/IFRS entraîne des remous compréhensibles dans la communauté des analystes financiers, légitimement interpellés par la nécessité d’appréhender correctement des comptes annuels établis selon un référentiel dont...

India, with its 20 million shareholders, is one of the largest emerging markets in terms of the market capitalization. In order to protect the large investor base, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has enforced a regulation effective from April 2001, requiring mandatory...

We analyze the board of directors' equilibrium strategies for setting CEO incentive pay and overseeing financial reporting and their effects on the level of earnings management. We show that an increase in CEO equity incentives does not necessarily increase earnings management because directors...

Making efficient management decisions as to companies' activities depends on up-to-date accounting system. In this connection the article covers corporate and inter-organizational information systems, a number of features characterizing the use of systems at the present stage have been...

The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...