This paper examines the accounting profession's self-regulation of internal audit outsourcing services. The question of whether public accountants compromise their independence when they provide internal audit services to their attest clients was debated within the accounting and regulatory...

The impact of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on the accounts and the quality of earnings of New Zealand firms is examined. Our analysis of IFRS adjustments for the last period under pre-IFRS NZ Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) reveals that...

I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is...

In recent years we have been inundated with news of corporations under investigation because of questionable accounting practices. In the worst case scenarios, companies such as Enron have gone bankrupt and ceased to exist because of lack of oversight and controls. Greedy high-level executives...

I use a sample of 409 companies that restate their earnings in 1997-2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) actions are...

Purpose: This paper explores theoretical framework of Islamic accounting and auditing research by elaborating theories derived from Al-Qur'an and Sunnah side by side with modern theories for each different epistemologies within social science i.e. positivism, relativism and constructionism....

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...

Recent accounting scandals are the product of multiple failings of auditing, accounting, corporate governance and of the market. In discussing the many factors that led to failure, this paper attempts to provide insights on regulatory inadequacies that contributed to these problems. At the...