Governance of public companies in Indonesia is concentrated in a particular group of controlling shareholder. The group is constituted in various ways like family, government, widely owned financial institutions, widely owned companies or others as a controlling shareholder. The controlling...

Under the internal model approach (IMA) stipulated by Basel II, financial institutions are allowed to develop and employ proprietary internal models to evaluate various risk. However, the flexibility to develop a proprietary model leads to the question of which computing method delivers the most...

This paper seeks to explain how failures in corporate governance contributed to the global financial crisis. More precisely, it studies how the current corporate governance systems failed to safeguard against aggressive risk taking and to provide the control that companies need in order to...

Using archival data, this paper presents the results of analyzing a sample of twelve primarily oil and gas, western Canadian energy firms and their use of financial derivatives to manage commodity price risk. The firms range in size from small to large based on total assets. All twelve companies...

This study examines the profit profile of firms in Nigeria and analyzes the impact of leverage on profitability for the period 1999-2007. The results show that aggregate profit level for the firms decreased by 0.02 percent yearly over the study period. However, when disaggregated into sectors, a...

This paper studies the corporate internationalization decision of family firms and the effect of family ownership on internationalization. Using a panel data set of manufacturing firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange during 2000–2007, the empirical results indicate that...

Malaysia like many other Asian countries was affected by the 1997 Financial Crisis. During this Financial Crisis, many companies succumbed. Pomerleano (1998) found that leverage of the companies if unchecked can be detrimental to the health of the company. He concluded that excess leverage at...

Working capital does not receive a great deal of attention in financial decision making. Perhaps this is because it involves investment and financing for the short term. Nevertheless, it is an important component of firm financial management. This study investigates the relationship between...

This study examines the factors that lead to issuing negative opinions on semiannual reports while issuing positive opinions in annual reports from the perspective of auditor-client relationships in listed companies in Taiwan. The empirical results show that the importance of the client is...

In this paper, we compare the financial characteristics of Hong Kong and Singapore manufacturing firms with the MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) technique. Our findings indicate that the liquidity, accounts receivable turnover, inventory turnover, total assets turnover, and equity...