A financial system can only perform its function of channelling funds from savers toinvestors if it offers sufficient assurance to the providers of the funds that they will reapthe rewards which have been promised to them. To the extent that this assurance is notprovided by contracts alone,...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to show how Japanese companies are assimilating the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance, by focusing on the changes in accounting and auditing in post-war Japan. Design/methodology/approach-It delineates the three key stages in the process by which...

We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...