We examine whether requiring versus allowing conditional capitalisation of development expenditure affects the extent to which capitalisation conveys more information about future earnings, relative to expensing. UK GAAP (SSAP 13) permitted, but not required, conditional capitalisation of...

Although UK resident tax-exempt shareholders lost the right to repayment of tax credits on dividends paid by UK resident companies in July 1997, they could continue to receive tax credit repayments in respect of dividends received from Irish resident companies until December 1998. In July 1997...

Theoretically driven, market-based contingent claims models have recently been applied to the field of corporate insolvency prediction in an attempt to provide the art with a theoretical methodology that has been lacking in the past. Limited studies have been carried out in order directly to...

This paper proposes a contribution of joint audit to audit quality through the mitigation of cognitive bias during the audit process, a potential largely overlooked in the prior literature. With reference to social and psychological factors impacting the quality of auditor hypothesis formation...

This paper is a case study-based investigation of aspects of the current paradigmatic approach to ‘good' corporate governance with its focus on the interlinked roles of internal control and risk management procedures, internal audit and external audit, overseen and co-ordinated by a formal...

The concept and notion of auditor independence has been of key importance to the audit profession, and to the variety of stakeholders who rely upon the work of auditors, for more than one hundred and fifty years. This contribution seeks to bring forward a number of the issues which underpin the...