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The recent corporate failures in the US and in Europe have considerably damaged investors’ confidence in the functioning of financial markets and the ability of the regulatory framework to safeguard their interest and prevent fraud. These episodes demonstrate that market failures exist, which...
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The article introduces the theoretical foundations of the author's original concept of accounting engineering. We … assume a theoretical premise whereby accounting engineering is understood as a system of accounting practice utilising … differences in economic events resultant from the use of divergent accounting methods. Unlike, for instance, creative or …
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This essay provides a survey of the evolution and the developments of bookkeeping, internal cost accounting and … present times. It is shown that the developments in bookkeeping and cost accounting have regularly been a reaction to … accounting, which chronologically enumerate different techniques and practices, this text additionally delivers an outline of …
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mostly due to an increase in accounting and legal fees. Because of the fixed-cost character of this component cost, smaller … compensate anymore for the increase in non-underwriting expenses (i.e., accounting and legal fees). Therefore, the positive …
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The U.S. is often seen as being the paradigmatic case of the shareholder-oriented or market-based model to corporate governance, and described in terms of several inter-related elements: activist institutional investors, an open market for corporate control, independent outside directors on the...
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We study whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 made firms less opaque. For identification, we use a difference-in-differences estimation approach and compare EU firms that are cross-listed in the US—and therefore subject to SOX—with comparable EU firms that are not cross-listed. We...
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Die in diesem Arbeitspapier enthaltende Darstellung dokumentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts als Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben im Verbund (FuE-Verbundforschung) im Rahmen der Förderung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit Mitteln des...
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In this paper we build a formal model to study market environments where information is costly to acquire and is of use also to potential competitors. In such situations a market for information may form, where reports - of unverifiable quality - over the information acquired are sold. A...
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Die Implementierung umfassender Kontrollmechanismen und die in gleicher Weise effektive wie effiziente Überwachung von Kontrollen stellt für Unternehmen heute eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie dringliche Herausforderung dar. Durch den Umfang der heutigen IT-Unterstützung der Geschäftsprozesse...
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