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Earnings quality and corporate governance following the implementation of Malaysian code of corporate governance

Wan Ismail, Wan Adibah; Dunstan, Keitha; van Zijl, Tony - 2010

-frame, the results capture a strong picture of the association between earnings quality and corporate governance in Malaysia. …

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In High Gear: A Case Study of the Hees-Edper Corporate Group

Strangeland, David; Daniels, Ronald J.; Morck, Randall - 1995

schemes used by Hees-Edper firms encouraged managers to adopt high-risk strategies, and that the intercorporate co …

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Corporate Governance Ratings in Emerging Markets: Implications for Market Valuation, Internal Firm-Performance, Dividend Payouts and Policy

Baker, Edward; Godridge, Ben; Gottesman, Aron; Morey, … - 2007

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has country-level and monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 22 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these data we examine the relationship of firm-level...

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The use of internal audit by Australian companies

Goodwin-Stewart, Jenny; Kent, Pamela - 2006

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the voluntary use of internal audit by Australian publicly listed companies and to identify factors that lead listed companies to have an internal audit function.Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the Institute of Internal Auditors'...

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Corporate governance, risk assessment and cost of debt

Aldamen, Husam; Duncan, Keith; McNamara, Ray - 2010

This paper examines the impact of corporate governance practices on the reported cost of contracted debt for Australian listed companies. Good governance decreases the variability in cash flows, reduces the probability of default (reduces default risk), increases the quality of value-relevant...

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Governance Structures, Ethnicity, and Audit Fees of Malaysian Listed Firms

Yatim, Puan; Kent, Pamela; Clarkson, Peter - 2006

listed on the Bursa Malaysia for the financial year ending in 2003. Multiple regression analysis is used to estimate the … unique contribution in that it provides data on corporate governance practices in Malaysia for a large sample in the period … practices have changed in Malaysia since the amendments of Bursa Malaysia Listing Requirements 2001. …

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Corporate governance and company performance in Australia

Christensen, Jacqueline; Kent, Pamela; Steward, Jenny - 2009

This study tests whether the adoption of Australian best practice corporate governance recommendations have a positive or negative relation with financial performance measured by return on assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q. The governance mechanisms associated with increased ROA and Tobin's Q are the...

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Do accounting and finance tools serve governance?

Ariff, Mohamed; Ratnatunga, Janek - 2008

A brief review of recent literature on corporate governance is provided, which is then concluded with a proposed corporate governance framework as a starting point for further development. We propose that it is stakeholder concentration that determines the quality of corporate governance. Next...

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The influence of corporate governance on management earnings forecast

Dunstan, Keitha; Truong, Thu Phuong - 2011

We examine the influence of three important external corporate governancemechanisms – continuous disclosure regulatory reform, analyst following andownership concentration and one important internal corporate governance mechanism – board structure on the likelihood, frequency, horizon,...

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The Organizational Psychology of Hyper-Competition: Corporate Irresponsibility and the Lessons of Enron

Langevoort, Donald C. - 2002

creative productivity from a large number of key managers and employees. Thus, I will put to the side the few remaining …

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