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Defined benefit pension plans can entail one of the biggest liabilities that an exchange-listed company has on its balance-sheet. There exist comprehensive requirements for the reporting of such liabilities. This paper examines the impact that defined benefit pension plans had on the financial...
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economic efficiency and technical competence for all hospitals analyzed we see that there is a correlation between these values …
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comprises an empirical study on the correlation between information published by companies in consolidated financial statements … that there is correlation between information disclosure with respect to IAS 23 and the analyzed variables. According to … significant correlation level between the studied elements. This research contributes to the development of both accounting field …
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capitalization rate. This paperinvolves an empirical research, presenting the correlation that might exist at the level ofcompliance … disclosure index determination and SPSS analysis. The findings suggestevidence of correlation with respect to the level of …
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This paper intends to investigate the correlation between the business and organizational size of companies as well as … GRI and CSR practices adoption, and the level of sustainability disclosure. The correlation is highlighted through SPSS … reports are incorporated within the integrated reports. We assume to obtain a high correlation between the business and …
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Most companies prefer to use absorption costing rule rather than marginal cost pricing. This article is aimed at defining the absorption costing rule as deriving from a principal-agent formulation of two tier organizations : (i) the upstream unit fixes the production capacity and uses it as a...
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In firms subject to tariff regulations, the authorities have developed “regulatory” accounting methods, to identify accepted costs and possible supernormal lrates of return. These methods are also useful in industries free from price regulation, because information about the economic rate of...
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This paper examines the effect of accruals subjectivity on the way investors use the information contained in accruals to set the interest rates charged in debt contracts. To measure the degree of subjectivity involved in the estimation of accruals we use several indicators of their ex ante...
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We test whether corporate governance mechanisms promoted by best practice codes are effective in constraining earnings manipulation in Spain, as previously documented in the US and the UK. We show that to a certain extent an Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance may turn out to be a failure...
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This study investigates the market valuation of income smoothing by a long run analysis of the relation income smoothing vs. return and risk in the Spanish stock market. Using several methodological approaches to estimate and test abnormal returns, the results suggest some pattern of behaviour...
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