This study analyzed the influence earnings management, corporate governance mechanisms, and quality audits of the financial performance of companies listed on stock exchanges in Indonesia since 2004 until 2007 up to 2007. The study also aims to find out where the benchmark had the most...

This dissertation investigates how economically-comparable peer firms can be used to obtain inferences about a company’s accounting quality in two different research settings. The first Chapter examines whether auditor industry specialization, measured using auditor market share by industry,...

Die Dissertation wurde mit der Zielsetzung verfasst, die Bedeutung von derivativen Finanzinstrumenten f?r die Jahresabschlusspolitik und -analyse darzustellen. These der Dissertation ist hierbei, dass derivative Finanzinstrumente und die mit ihnen verbundenen Chancen und Risiken ma?geblichen...

Today's predominant disclosure philosophy calls for the fulldisclosure of all decision relevant information bycompanies. More publicly available information, theargument goes, limits the adverse selection problem by reducinginformation asymmetry among heterogeneous investors. Thus, theliquidity...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2009. Major: Bussiness Administration. Advisor: Pervin Shroff. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 100 pages, appendices A.

The two objectives of this thesis are to investigate the magnitude of compliance with AASB 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources and AASB 136 Impairment of Assets; and to examine the influence of audit quality on the compliance levels utilising data from 305 Australian mineral...

We investigate whether the use of a high quality auditor and increased regulatory monitoring of R&D reporting influence both the level of R&D expenditure capitalized by Australian companies from 1992 to 2002 and the market’s perception of the reliability of these figures. The results indicate...

We investigate whether the use of a high-quality auditor and increased regulatory monitoring of R&D reporting influence both the level of R&D expenditure capitalized by Australian companies from 1992 to 2002 and the market's perception of the reliability of these figures. The results indicate...

I examine the association between earnings quality and audit firm type using a three-tiered audit firm classification scheme which allows for an explicit examination of the quality of Second-Tier audited earnings. My tests are motivated by the lack of competition in the market for audit...