This paper examines effects of corporate diversification on firm value using methodology of Berger and Ofek (1995) excess value measures based on assets and sales multiples. We match diversified firms and single-segment firms traded in National Market of ISE during the period of 2005-2010 in...

The main objective of paper is to highlight on corporate governance relation with accounting standards through checking selective data base of leading companies in business world, annual reports of IASB, and random academic researches. Business world has been changes rapidly and dramatically...

The quest of this research paper is to look into the association between corporate ownership structure variables and corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD). Seventy annual reports for the year 2010 of non financial companies with listed Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh have been...

In a cross-border takeover, the tax base associated with future capital gains is transferred from target shareholders to acquirer shareholders. Crosscountry differences in capital gains tax rates enable us to estimate the discount in target valuation on account of future capital gains. A one...

Using information local to the premerger equilibrium, we derive approximations of the expected changes in prices and welfare generated by a merger. We extend the pricing pressure approach of recent work to allow for non-Bertrand conduct, adjusting the diversion ratio and incorporating the change...

The present article tackles with the mergers and acquisitions in the Central Eastern Europe countries. The financial domain is dominated by the banking sector and this involves very much the legal aspects to be followed and respected in these kinds of transactions. The mergers and acquisitions...

For a long time the users of financial statements were limited to consulting the profit and loss account in order to find out information regarding the result sheet, considered the most significant measure of a company’s performance. On the same trajectory there lies the theory of Economics,...

The form and content of the capitalist world economy is fast evolving and we find capital being increasingly concentrated and centralised as the battle of market competition intensifies. Companies have to keep running just to stay in the same place so intense is the competition. One of the...

It is difficult to choose the relevant piece of information out of the abundance of information provided by management accounting, having an impact on the company’s performance. As we know, the information regarding costs constitutes the link between managerial and financial accounting....