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This paper examines the evolution of the US public accounting industry from providers of audit services to ultimate …
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Since the US voters elected Barack Obama in 2008 – the first African American President of the United States of America – we witness continual attacks on this first black president. The attacks by the Tea Party have been widely broadcast by those parts of the US media most sympathetic to...
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and safety inspections of corporate property must be done pursuant to a court authorised warrant. International accounting … firms owe much of their existence and success to business corporations. As a consequence, accounting firms, through their …
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debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics …
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This paper examines the institutionalisation of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) in the USA and UK. It … between the two countries. XBRL seems to have taken deeper root in the USA than the UK primarily because of the relatively … stronger institutional 'coercive' pressures. We argue that 'normative' pressures, from the accounting profession, only play a …
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the USA and UK and highlights some directions for further research. It finds that the pace of XBRL adoption across … USA as compared to the UK. Moreover, XBRL seems to be widely used in the financial services sector as compared to others … argued that greater support from the accounting profession and regulators is required to raise XBRL awareness and speed the …
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accounting profession as it is listed among the top ten jobs experiencing difficulty recruiting. Prior research in the management … an individual and the work environment. This research examines the relevance of work-environment fit in the accounting … industry, using the USA as an illustrative example. This study examines the importance of fit with one's work environment to …
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This research study examines perceptions regarding the trustworthiness and integrity of the accounting profession …. Perceptions were obtained from accounting practitioners, accounting educators, and future practitioners (students). Survey results … indicate that, compared to accounting practitioners and educators, students are generally more concerned about events …
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This paper investigates the environmental issues caused by the oil exploitations in the US India and in Africa. The paper deals with several questions. Who should be held accountable? What are the roles of the oil companies? What is the responsibility of regulators and governments? How should we...
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