Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property. Yet, until now, it has never been proven. These doctrines rest on unsubstantiated assumptions. In this book the...

Audit reporting is a complex process, requiring knowledge of various reporting issues and corresponding report formats. To address the difficulty of presenting audit reporting concepts to students, the authors constructed and used an audit reporting system, named AUDPORT, in their first-level...

This article provides a description of (and guidance for implementing) a classroom exercise in which experimental asset markets are used to illustrate the economic impact that auditing can have on a market economy and its participants. In particular, the exercise entails creating two actual...

One purpose of accounting education is to introduce students to the values and ethical standards of the accounting profession (AAA Bedford Committee Report 1986). This study investigates whether undergraduate accounting education is successful at instilling in accounting students a sense of...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación pretende analizar la manera en que las empresas del Cantón Milagro, provincia del Guayas – Ecuador, emplean lo establecido en el Marco Conceptual de las International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); su relevancia radica en el uso del...

This paper addresses an issue that most accounting instructors face when assigning group work: does the method of forming groups affect the group experience and, if so, how? Our study provides a student characterization of group formation effects, by examining student experiences as expressed in...

We examine the effectiveness of online tutoring software to ameliorate poor performance in intermediate financial accounting. Controlling for age, major, and student aptitude, we find that the number of terms that have transpired since a student took introductory financial accounting, whether...

We propose a novel pedagogic design to integrate teaching earnings management and accounting ethics at the undergraduate level. Earnings management is an extensive topic related to almost every topic in collegiate accounting education. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) give...

This study considers the relationship between job search and over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates. Using a panel estimation method, we find that using universities' career offices is associated with a reduced probability of over-education (between 3% and 8%)...

Basel II changes risk management in banks strongly. Internal rating procedures would lead one to expect that banks are changing over to active risk control. But, if risk management is no longer a simple "game against nature", if all agents involved are active players then a shift from a...