This article explores how classroom configuration and instructional technologies (IT) can be used to leverage good practices in accounting education and improve core competencies of undergraduate students. The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, (Chickering and Gamson...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how fair value reporting and increased managerial discretion under the new goodwill accounting affect the asymmetric timeliness of earnings;, i.e. accounting conservatism. Design/methodology/approach – Various empirical models are applied...

Intensifying competition for air transportation passengers has led airports to research optimal designs and determine the infrastructure expansion capacities of their terminals. As a result, many researchers have studied this subject from a variety of perspectives. In this study, we propose an...

In this paper, we analyze country and industry factors that influence investment strategies in Latin American emerging markets. This analysis show investors seeks different benefits from their investment, and country-specific political and economic events are very important to investors. In very...

Pressures such as increasing competition, technological developments and rapidly changing environments have forced organisations a) to be innovative and cost effective, b) to improve quality and productivity, and c) to be flexible and to search for strategies that will give a sustainable...

In this paper we examine risk-return trade-off of investing in Latin American emerging stock markets. In particular, the study seeks to examine whether equities from Latin American emerging markets might have offered the Canadian investor high returns for a relatively low level of risk when...