This study investigates the impact of ownership structure and family board domination on voluntary disclosure for Jordanian listed companies. Ownership structure is characterised by government ownership, outside ownership, managerial ownership and number of shareholders. This study is based on a...

This study evaluates the extent of voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of non-financial companies listed at the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) for the year 2006. The study adopts the disclosure index suggested by Haddad et al. (2009) and evaluates the voluntary disclosure for the Jordanian...

This study investigates the impact of ownership structure and family board domination on voluntary disclosure for Jordanian listed companies. Ownership structure is characterised by government ownership, outside ownership, managerial ownership and number of shareholders. This study is based on a...

This study explores the extent of financial instruments (FI) information that is supplied by Qatari listed companies under International Accounting Standards (IAS) 30, IAS 32 and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 7 for the period between 2005 and 2012. The study adopts the...

This study investigates the voluntary disclosure of accounting ratios in the corporate annual reports of manufacturing firms in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and determines whether an association exists between voluntary disclosure and firm-specific characteristics namely, size,...

The objectives of this study are to measure the level of voluntary disclosure provided in the annual reports of Jordanian companies and to examine the impact of disclosure level on the stock market liquidity using Jordanian data. To achieve the first objective, a self-constructed disclosure...