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The recent accounting scandals, characterised by the Enron affair, have not been confined to the U.S.A., but have been …
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This study has examined the relationship between corporate governance structures and the performance of a sample of companies listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in the post-Asian financial crisis period beginning 2001 and ending in 2003. The sample was selected to provide matched-pairs of...
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) (previously known as International Accounting Standards (IAS)).The regulation further determined that the effective date of this … African Statements ofGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice (South African SGAAP). The implication ofthe acceptance of the … that there are still substantial differences between these twosets of accounting standards. No such study was conducted in …
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regarding share price behaviour, and more specifically with respect to the relationship between inflation accounting and the … results by revaluing their assets and accounting for additional depreciation. Prior to 1984 a fair proportion of the companies … number of inflation accounting models were developed based either on AC 201 or other suggestions found in the literature …
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The disclosure of Corporate Governance (CG) information by firms has been found in prior studies to have an impact on the market value of firms. This thesis extends the research by studying the impact of voluntary CG disclosure by firms in Hong Kong, a market which provides a strong legal...
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Pressures for the harmonisation of accounting practice in Cameroon arose out of UDEAC Acts which had already been … OCAM Plan, a variant of the continental European uniform accounting systems. The aim of this study is threefold: (i) to … between the accounting values of the Anglophones on the one hand and those of the Francophones on the other. These results led …
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(iii) how the factors/contexts affecting value relevance and pricing of the firm-level accounting fundamentals impact on … on the adequacy of the UK segment reporting accounting standard SSAP 25, and the quality of segment disclosures in the UK …, the study uncovers a range of contexts and factors that affect the value relevance and pricing of specific accounting …
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The central thesis defended here is that we can have truth and objectivity in accounting. We do not contend that this … modernity to crisis tendencies in financial accounting as a way of knowing - epistemological crisis. We do contend that … accounting's tendencies to epistemological crises can, at least in theory, be overcome. We begin to defend this view by …
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The present study is an empirically based analysis of liquidity management. The study contributes to the understanding of how U.K.-based companies handle the problem of unexpected events which have major negative implications for the expected funds flow equilibrium of the firm. In particular,...
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, United Kingdom and the United States of America established the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) in a bid … to confront the problems of international accounting diversities. In addition to the efforts of the IASC, various other … is to assess the extent to which the accounting measurement and associated disclosure practices of five leading countries …
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