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Audit committee effectiveness: informal processes and behavioural effects

Turley, Stuart; Zaman, Mahbub - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20 (2007) 5, pp. 765-788

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the conditions and processes affecting the operation and potential effectiveness of audit committees (ACs), with particular focus on the interaction between the AC, individuals from financial reporting and internal audit functions and the external...

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Auditing research: a review across the disciplinary divide

Humphrey, Christopher - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 21 (2008) 2, pp. 170-203

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the contribution made by auditing research over the last three decades to understandings of audit practice and to consider the implications for the future development of the discipline. Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form...

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The individualization of corporate governance

Dewing, Ian P.; Russell, Peter O. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 21 (2008) 7, pp. 978-1000

the rise to significance of internal control and risk management in corporate governance and regulation, and links this to … from the firm to the individual that may be achieved by regulation. …

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Beyond the boardroom: governmental perspectives on corporate governance

Stein, Mitchell J. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 21 (2008) 7, pp. 1001-1025

Purpose – This paper aims to examine corporate governance and consequences of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act (SOX) in the US from a socio‐political perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The author employs neo‐liberalism and its related mentality of governmentality to develop an analysis...

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Legitimacy and parliamentary oversight in Australia

Jacobs, Kerry; Jones, Kate - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 22 (2009) 1, pp. 13-34

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the question of whether two early Australian public accounts committees were established for the purpose of legitimating governments of the time. Design/methodology/approach – The paper addressed these issues through a study of the...

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Strategies for dealing with standard‐setting resistance

Jeppesen, Kim K. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 2, pp. 175-200

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of how auditing standard setting is adapted to changing patterns of resistance at various stages of its development. Design/methodology/approach – The research is conducted as a longitudinal single case study of the...

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Analysing societal regulatory control systems with specific reference to higher education in England

Broadbent, Jane; Gallop, Carolyn; Laughlin, Richard - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 4, pp. 506-531

”. It seeks to provide a conceptual language of “relational” and “transactional” approaches to regulation both generally and … in relation to higher education (HE). The paper aims to illustrate that different types of regulation are related to the …, (in England, the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE)) and the Research Councils (RC). Regulation of …

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The “equator principles”: a success for voluntary codes?

Macve, Richard; Chen, Xiaoli - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 7, pp. 890-919

companies' sustainability initiatives and mandatory, legal regulation. However, concerns continue to be expressed that the …

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The diffusion of risks in public private partnership contracts

Demirag, Istemi; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Stapleton, Pamela; … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) 8, pp. 1317-1339

Purpose – The UK government argues that the benefits of public private partnership (PPP) in delivering public infrastructure stem from transferring risks to the private sector within a structure in which financiers put their own capital at risk, and the performance‐based payment mechanism,...

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I am the very model of a special purpose vehicle

Woods, Margaret - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2013) 2, pp. 346-346

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a critical comment on complex funding systems. Design/methodology/approach – This is a critical comment written in the form of a poem. The poem is in the style of the English light opera composers Gilbert and Sullivan, and is a variation on their song...

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