Emerging market countries that have improved institutions and attained intermediate levels of institutional quality have experienced severe financial crises following capital flow reversals. However, there is also evidence that countries with strong institutions and deep capital markets are less...

Recently in Australia, regulations have been proclaimed requiring companies to make cashflow disclosures in addition to earnings disclosures from 30 June 1992. This paper provides evidence on relationships between earnings and cash flow measures and in so doing examines the external validity of...

Baigiamajame darbe analizuota ir įvertinta pinigų srautų valdymo ypatumai ekonominės krizės sąlygomis, išskirtos apyvartinio kapitalo valdymo problemos bei atliktas nustatytų dydžių prognozavimas ir pateikti siūlymai, kaip tobulinti pinigų srautų valdymą įmonėje. Pirmoje darbo...

Lally (2007) concludes that regulators must esimate the risk-free rate as the yield-to-maturity on Government debt with a term-to-maturity equal to the regulatory period, to ensure that the present value of expected cash flows equals the investment base. The analytics behind this conclusion...

This paper investigates the relationship between annual report disclosure, market liquidity, and capital cost for firms registered on the Deutsche Börse. Disclosure is comprehensively measured using the innovative Artificial Intelligence Measurement of Disclosure (AIMD). Results show that...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

The main objective of the study has been to provide new insights into ongoing recent studiesexamining the impact of stock market liberalization at both macro and micro (firm) levels. Thestudy focused on a single country, South Africa, whose exchange, the Johannesburg StockExchange (JSE),...

Black Economic Empowerment is one of the South African government'sinitiatives to bring parity to past economic imbalances. One of the aspects ofthis empowerment has been through transferring of equity ownership toempowerment groups in order to increase black ownership and control. A keyquestion...

In a dividend imputation tax system, equity investors have three potential sources of return: dividends, capital gains and franking (tax) credits. However, the standard procedures for estimating the market risk premium (MRP) for use in the capital asset pricing model, ignore the value of...

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between price regulation and investment. More specifically, this thesis aims to answer the following two questions: (i) Does price regulation distort the firm’s decisions of when and whether to invest? and (ii) Does price...