Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption and corporate governance mechanisms (e.g., Board characteristics and Audit Committee (AC) characteristics) on Audit Report Lag (ARL) in an emerging country, named...

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between internal audit effectiveness, internal auditor's responsibility, training and fraud detection. During the last decade internal auditing has become an integral part of modern businesses since it is capable of detecting errors or...

Web 2.0 applications are continuously moving into the corporate mainstream. Each new development brings its own threats or new ways to deliver old attacks. The objective of this study is to develop a framework to identify the security issues an organisation is exposed to through Web 2.0...

A highly qualitative financial reporting refers to the publication of accounting information complying with the requirements of the reporting framework and generally, they must be transparent, intelligible, relevant, credible and comparable. Based on the results of the theoretical research...

One of the major roles in promoting accounting convergence is played by big accounting firms (Big 4). The objective of this paper is in this context to analyze and question the role of big auditing firms in developing and implementing IFRSs worldwide, in order to better understand the...

Research Question: Do modern ERP systems record sufficient information to allow retrospective monitoring of accounts payable transactions? Can Benford's Law be applied to these transactions to detect potential fraud in accounting data? Motivation: Modern ERP systems are capable of recording...

Research Question- To what extent can governance mechanisms (audit committee and board of directors) affect the relationship between dividend policy and earnings management? Motivation- The majority of the literature has showed that dividend policy can influence earnings management. However, the...

Research Question- Can firm performance moderate the relationship between tax avoidance and firm risk in the French context? Motivation- Previous studies have investigated the impact of tax avoidance on corporate risk, yet consensus remains elusive. These discrepancies suggest that findings may...

This paper aims to identify the factors determining the extent of mandatory and voluntary information disclosure in financial reports of selected Polish listed companies. It is particularly important in the context of reporting standards harmonisation and the related process of IFRS coming into...

Research Question- What is the perception of the stakeholders of the Romanian banking system on the adequacy of current accounting regulations? Motivation- The motivation of this research is supported by the existence of a gap in the specialised literature: the perception of the interested...