This study identifies three organisational variables that have an influence on internal auditing practices and specifies how each of them can exert its influence. This study is based on a literature review, combined with insights from theory specification cases; and contributes to the literature...

This study identifies three organisational variables that have an influence on internal auditing practices and specifies how each of them can exert its influence. This study is based on a literature review, combined with insights from theory specification cases; and contributes to the literature...

Les sociétés de haute technologie européennes, de par leurs caractéristiques (dépenses en actifs immatériels, croissance, innovation...) sont amenées à publier des régularisations comptables. Ceci peut affecter la persistance de leurs résultats. Néanmoins, notre étude indique qu'au...

Like many countries in Eastern Europe, Slovakia is currently facing social and economic changes that are leading the country towards a market economy. In the future, the country might join the European Union. This will call for many legislative and practical changes to which Slovak institutions...

The Belgian Corporate Governance Code was published in 2004 and updated in 2009 to provide standards of good practice. Since 2008, Belgian law has imposed the creation of an audit committee for all listed firms. There are many published, empirical studies that focus on the relationship between...

Purpose – Despite appearing in the literature over 10 years ago as a potentially exciting cost management technique, there is still limited agreement about the nature of target costing. The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of target costing, and to test whether these...