This paper focuses on an analysis of the mandatory disclosure of goodwill impairment information in compliance with the international accounting standard IAS 36. The international financial reporting standards require a wide range of disclosed information concerning the goodwill impairment such...

The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and its factors for Indian bank groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity in the bank sizes, we perform DEA to estimate PE for small, medium, and large banks across different ownership....

The paper investigates the determinants of working capital to forecast the future requirement of working capital of BSE-listed top 150 companies in India. The study is conducted by collecting the data of 150 top-performing BSE listed companies for the time period of 2009-2017. The ten firm-level...

Anecdotal evidence showed that the portion of internet users to the population in Malaysia is relatively higher among developing economies. However, there are not many Malaysian listed companies that use the internet as a platform for financial information disclosure. Perhaps, the managers do...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the participation of women in companies with financial performance. However, this relationship does not arise directly. The authors argue that the participation of women in the company's staff has a positive effect on the...

Purpose This study reveals the results of the validation of the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) within the Greek accounting context. The specific instrument has been used extensively in other contexts to investigate the teaching-learning environment in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)....

There has been no recent examination of a disclosure of intangible assets under IFRS of entities listed on PSE. Hence, this article focuses on such an examination within financial statements reported for 2015 by entities listed on PSE and investigates whether these reports meet the minimum...

This paper studies the effect of financial constraints and financial distress on accounting restatements; specifically, we empirically analyse whether several firm-specific characteristics-namely, the level of leverage, the cost of debt, and the interest coverage ratio-influence the likelihood...

Recent incentive compensation trends suggest that many firms are (a) increasing the frequency with which they reward their employees and (b) providing gift-like unconditional rewards to employees irrespective of performance. This study investigates how reward frequency and reward conditionality...

Fraud detection is among the highest priorities for the accounting profession, standard setters, regulators, and stakeholders in the financial reporting process. During planning, auditors are required to perform preliminary analytical procedures with the objective of identifying unusual or...