Environmental reporting has become rather common for many multinationals, but how and to what extent this differs for the Triad regions is largely unknown. This paper investigates the differences in patterns and trends in reporting by Triad multinationals, also examining whether, in line with...

Against the background of critique on the negative social and environmental implications of globalisation, multinational enterprises have become active in reporting on activities undertaken to prevent these "externalities" of international trade and production. This article analyses to which...

This study examined whether external users of financial statements are capable of assessing goodwill impairment apart from management. This study aimed at investigating goodwill write-offs resulted from acquisitions among Jordanian shareholding companies in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during...

This paper focuses on studying why some managers of listed companies decide to disclose their financial numbers later than others who opt to publish earlier. This research concentrates on both statutory annual financial disclosures in France: the earnings announcements date and the full...

Since China's capital market is facing the "emerging & transition" development environment, as the share-split structure reform is gradually improving, the confidence of investors of listed companies is slowly restored. Therefore, improving and perfecting the system of information disclosure of...

In the last decade undergoing accounting harmonization processes and their impact on corporate disclosure was continually discussed in the scientific literature. This paper extends this analysis by evaluating Lithuanian case. The aim of this study is to assess accounting regulation changes in...

It is thought to be increasingly important for firms to be engaged in extensive disclosure in Japan, which subsumes information about firms' economic, social, and environmental aspects. Our research aims to investigate why firms voluntarily disclose such extensive information to various external...

This study investigates the investor relations activities on the Internet of companies listed on the Euronext stock exchange. For this purpose, the websites of the 50 largest listed companies in each of the countries Belgium, France and the Netherlands were screened for investor relations items....

This study investigates the interaction between audit quality and agency costs, when managerial ownership is used as a proxy for agency costs. The literature on audit quality suggests that firms with high agency costs are more likely to demand audit quality. Our database enables us to compare...

Local governments on the municipal level were among the first organizations to take part in the accounting reform in Greece that sought the transformation of the traditional budgetary cash accounting system to a new system that combines cash and accrual accounting information. In this paper we...