Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether voluntary corporate governance (CG) code issued in 2002 constrain earnings management (EM) among listed non-finance companies in Kenya.Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel data of 338-firm year's observations between 2005 and...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the capital market effects of corporate governance (CG) practices of “comply or explain” on stock market liquidity in a frontier market. Using secondary data from Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) liquidity position is analyzed using panel data random...

We examine the extent of bank earnings smoothing during mandatory IFRS adoption in Nigeria, to determine whether mandatory IFRS adoption increased or decreased income smoothing among Nigerian banks. We find that the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is...

We review the recent academic and policy literature on bank loan loss provisioning (LLP) to identify several advances in the literature, to highlight some challenges in LLP research and suggest possible directions for future research with some concluding remarks. Among other things, we observe...

The present work approaches the research question: Does tax transparency through mandatory corporate tax return disclosure tackle tax avoidance? Tax avoidance has far-reaching social implications. The aim of this study is to shed light on tax avoidance and to help mitigate its adverse social...

The subject matter of this paper is the analysis and evaluation of the business and financial performance of the Kier Group Plc over the three year period 2012–2014. The company is analysed against the comparator undertaking Balfour Beatty Plc and the average numbers of the UK and...

The present article deals with the application of the net worth method in the financial crime case study of John and Gayle Fawn. The UK Crown Prosecution Service accuses the defendants of having committed offences against the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in the period 2012/13-2014/15.Under the net...