This paper examines the extent of financial information disclosed on the Internet by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries. We collected data from listed companies in stock market of a representative group of GCC countries, to test research hypotheses related to the association between...

In Egypt, as one of the emerging markets, mandatory disclosure of financial information on annual reports has attracted the attention of many researchers. Results of prior studies analyzing disclosure level concluded that mandatory financial disclosure in annual reports is low. The purpose of...

Egypt witnessed continuous developments in accounting regulations which led to a comprehensive set of Egyptian Accounting Standards in June 2006, to be implemented starting from the fiscal year 2007. It is expected that complying with high quality accounting standards would result in more...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of market and organizational determinants on the voluntary disclosure level of Egyptian companies. We use a disclosure index of voluntary disclosure that is based upon the following information categories: (a) strategic information;...

Egypt witnessed continuous developments in accounting regulations which led to a comprehensive set of Egyptian Accounting Standards (EAS) in June 2006, to be implemented starting 2007. It is expected that complying with high quality accounting standards would result in more adequate information...

This paper aims at investigating and scrutinizing prior literature of human rights disclosures, corporate governance mechanisms and their effect on firm performance in an attempt to unveil the influence of non-financial disclosures such as human rights on the corporation’s financial...

This study provides further insights on the key corporate governance drivers of intellectual capital (IC) disclosure in Egyptian companies. It uses IC disclosure index of three components; internal capital, external capital, and human capital to identify IC disclosure level in annual reports of...

This study aims at investigating the extent to which Egyptian universities disclose information on social responsibility to different stakeholders, which leads to the enhancement of sustainable development.An index of social responsibility that fits the Egyptian universities is established,...

This paper aims to examine the moderating effect of the narrative risk disclosure quality on the association between firm performance and the cost of equity capital in the Egyptian setting. Manual content analysis and factorial principal component techniques are used to quantify the quality...

The objectives of this study are to (i) examine the relationship between accounting conservatism and climate-related risk disclosure (CRRD) in the context of Egypt, and (ii) look into the moderating role of earnings quality (EQ) in such a relationship. To operationalize CRRD reported by Egyptian...