The concept of gender empowerment is a common concern all over the World. This issue has now acquired new dimensions with the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in development countries like India. It has potential to empower women through by overcoming their physical...

Free movement of goods is a regime under which goods do not encounter at borders, no hurdle set by the State, regardless of whether they are imported or exported according to article 23 of the EC Treaty, the community is founded upon a Customs Union which shall comprise all trade in goods which...

This paper investigates stock analysts’ earnings forecasts under complex corporate ownership in China. Based on a sample of 1298 firms for years 2004–2011, our evidence suggests that state shareholding is negatively related to the quality of consensus analysts’ earnings forecasts. In...

This paper develops a taxonomy of the different accounting systems that have evolved in Africa from the colonial era, through the early years of independence, to modern times. A preliminary test of the classification scheme for the current era of International Financial Reporting Standards...

Recent research finds that many analyst recommendation revisions take place shortly after earnings announcements. Altinkilic and Hansen (2009) attribute the clustering of recommendations to analysts strategically piggybacking on earnings information to improve the perceived performance of their...

Prior work finds that managers beneficially time their purchases, but not sales, prior to forecasts. Focusing on if (as opposed to when) a forecast is given, we link insider selling to silence in advance of earnings disappointments. This raises the question of whether the absence of...

Prior research document a positive association between analyst coverage and R&D. However, they do not investigate what particular attribute of R&D leads to this positive association. In this study we aim to fill the gap in the extant literature and explore the cross-sectional determinants of the...

La discusión por la relación entre contabilidad y medio ambiente ha sido poco abordada en nuestropaís. El presente artículo pretende profundizar en esta discusión que implica tener en cuenta elcarácter social, institucional y disciplinar de la contabilidad. Por esta razón, es necesario...

El artículo busca identifi car de los componentes, orientaciones e interpretaciones del discurso ofi cialsobre curriculum en Contaduría Pública en Colombia. Se toma como eje de argumentación, queel discurso legítimo proviene de organizaciones lejanas a la acción educativa, asignando roles...

Una revisión al contexto de aparición de los programas de contaduría pública en Colombia a través de diferentes elementos que jugaron un papel importante se hace en este documento. Se plantea como tesis central, que los procesos de institucionalización de la enseñanza de la contabilidad...