From a survey of the papers published in leading accounting journals in 2014, we find that accounting researchers conduct significance testing almost exclusively at a conventional level of significance, without considering the key factors such as sample size or power of a test. We present...

Transparenzrating Die Finanzberichterstattung steht bei Aktiengesellschaften und Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung vor neuen Herausforderungen. An Aktualität, Transparenz und Qualität werden immer anspruchsvollere Maßstäbe angelegt. Die gleichzeitige Erfüllung dieser Anforderungen...

Universities, departments and academics are in quest for performance. Measuring performance means establishing and applying a ranking system which is usually finalised with a hierarchy. We endeavoured in this context to a study of the extant situation characterising the performance of the...