This study examines the effects of a joint audit on auditor’s report consensus and accuracy. We investigate whether a joint audit, particularly the report issued, improves an audit’s quality. We measure the audit’s quality using the degree of auditor consensus in the auditor’s report. We...

Following International Accounting Standards (IAS) No. 39, Taiwan implemented the No. 34 and No. 36 Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) that regulate the measurement and disclosure of financial instruments, respectively. Both IAS and Taiwan SFAS allowed companies to reclassifyʺ...

There is currently considerable interest in the topic of internal audit and its contribution to exact management of any business economic resources. Within this framework of extremely fluid business environment, the research tested the hypothesis about the role of internal auditing for the...

This study aimed at establishing the degree of influence of cost elements on the productivity of manufacturing companies. The study made used of a survey research design method and data were obtained through questionnaire and analyzed with the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The study...

The study examined the degree of influence of oil spillage and gas flaring costs on life expectancy rate of the Niger Delta people of Nigeria. It was intended to survey the life threatening impacts of lost revenue occasioned by oil spillage and gas flaring activities of the Oil and Gas companies...

The study investigates associations, first, between a firm's intellectual capital and market value, and second, between a firm's intellectual capital and financial performance in the context of Bangladeshi companies selected from three different industries - banking, textiles, and...

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of firm-specific characteristics which include firm size, profitability, debt equity ratio, liquidity and audit firm size on voluntary disclosure level of rural banks in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The research was conducted through detailed...

Fraudulent financial reporting is a matter of great social and economic concern. Managers may distort financial statements so as to present their companies more favorably to investors or creditors. On the other hand, auditors are the ones who are expected to identify fraudulent financial...

Although researches have extensively studied the relationship between audit quality and financial reporting, little has been said about the consequences to auditors of financial reporting failure in terms of impairment of the audit information role. Based in Taiwan’s unique setting, we...

Export channel management has gained a greater relevance as one of the challenges related to internationalization processes. Analyzing the conclusions of the articles that have studied the control systems role in the context of the interorganizational relationships (Interoganisational Control,...