This study seeks to examine the influence of firm-specific determinants of stock prices in an emerging market with particular reference to firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The study employs a data-set from all listed firms on the Ghana Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2014. The study used...

Accounting information was often used to determine the effect of quality management initiatives. Relation between quality management and financial performance of the companies was extensively explored but with the conflicting results. The most recent studies introduced intermediary factors...

The aim of this paper is to show the importance of accounting information for management, especially in medium-sized companies. Sampling was carried out according to the accidental principle, after which we selected 300 medium-sized and large companies. We used the questionnaire, which was...

Overall economic development of the country, beside it, requires adequate information, reliable and important for economic decisions from investors, managers, administrators of state, etc. Along with other economic development and management, also and development of an accounting system, able to...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which pension accounting represents an enabling or emancipatory accounting. Many countries are facing a so-called “pensions crisis” which is reflected in and arguably, to some extent at least, is precipitated by accounting. Occupational...

This paper reports the results of a study of the audit expectation gap in Singapore, conducted in 1996 and supports the call for a change in audit report format and wording to a longer form audit report currently in use in Australia and America. The main aims of the study were to measure the...

Nyolc mezőgazdasági vállalkozás utóbbi hat évben közzétett éves beszámolója, valamint a jogi szabályozás vizsgálata alapján megállapítható, hogy elméleti és gyakorlati szempontból is van különbség a számviteli és a pénzügyi eredménykategóriák között. A...

Tourism and ecotourism aim the optimisation of a balanced relation concerning the value between effort and effect, income and costs, assets and their origin. Controlling these relations involves the mandatory use of the accounting information. The purpose of the article is to prove that the...

Often, numbers are “an impediment” for those who own or run a business. We live in a world where the numbers lead us, direct us, and in the light of the economic environment this is something natural. Managers’ or administrators’ expectations are high regarding the work of professional...

This study aimed to investigate the nexus between the level of environmental financial accounting practices (EFAP) and cost of capital. The population of this study is 1.188 firm-year observations. However, we excluded 408 firm-year with less than 2 years of information to calculate EFAP, 73...