Timely financial reporting is an essential ingredient for a well-functioning capital market. The objectives of this study are two-fold. First, to measure the extend of timeliness in a developing country, Turkey. Second, to establish the impact of both company specific and audit related factors...

We provide a comprehensive overview of the findings regarding the causes of financial restatements in the US. Acknowledging that restatements may derive from intentional and unintentional misreporting, we assign the findings to one of three pillars: i) expected benefits, ii) expected costs and...

The current study deals with the issues of archiving, storing the documents and the account books, analyzing the filling in and storage methods. The study highlights at the same time the conditions that must be fulfilled for their drawing up, for the archiving of the documents and of the account...

This study is about the perception of Auditors, Accountants and Accounting Academics to the plan by the Nigerian government to introduce the accrual system of accounting in its public sector. A cross sectional survey research design was adopted for this study. Questionnaire was distributed to...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of financial reports to users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an attempt to find out whether current practices satisfy users' needs of information and the extent to which these needs have been satisfied by the current disclosure...

PurposeThe purpose of the paper was to investigate the usefulness of external audit of financial statements in detecting manipulation of financial statements in Poland. Design/method/approachThe study analyzes and summarizes common techniques used to manipulate financial statements of Polish...

Based on behavioral economic and psychological theories, we predict that firms with financial statements that are more dissimilar from their industry peers' or their own past are more likely to draw scrutiny from the SEC. To test this prediction, we first construct measures of financial...

Ten years after the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated the conversion of corporate financial statements to machine-readable formats, there is still no analogous mandate for state and local government Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs). We explore the challenges and benefits...

This research work focused on the role played by predictive models in proactively forestalling ingenious approaches otherwise known as creative accounting to IFRS based financial reporting practices of manufacturing companies. It examined the contributions made by the predictive models in...