This paper is a market-informed analysis of the pressures that come to bear on the auditor of corporate accounts. It is argued that the integrity and independence of the auditor is a portion of the service quality which they bring to the exercise of providing an audit opinion. An economic model...

Earnings management is found to be driven by different managerial incentives. Previous studies have identified that executive compensation contracts create incentives for earnings management. The agency theory and the positive accounting theory provide explanations for contract-driven earnings...

This study provides evidence on both the short-run and long-run investment performance of Malaysian initial public offering (IPO) companies that are listed on the MESDAQ Market. The factors that influence the performance are also investigated. In line with past Malaysian studies, the results of...

This paper seeks to address the question of whether local macroeconomic variables have any influence on the numbers of IPOs in an emerging market, Malaysia over the period of 1990 to 2008. The evidence of a significant negative relationship between interest rate and the numbers of IPOs, and a...

After the adoption of AASB 138 in 2005, it is argued that information on intangibles is less visible in Australian companies' financial reports. In view of this limitation, this study examines the nature, extent and intensity of intangibles disclosure by listed companies in Australia. We...

This study re-examines the integration among five selected ASEAN emerging stock markets Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore) based on Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing approach proposed by Pesaran, Shin and Smith 2001). This study finds that the stock...

Based on agency theory, ownership structure plays a role in monitoring managerial opportunistic behaviour. This study examines how different forms of ownership structures including foreign ownership, government ownership, and managerial ownership moderate the relationship between free cash flow...

This paper investigates the role of board structure and the effect of ownership structures on firm performance in New Zealand's listed firms. Several studies, the majority from the U.S., U.K. and Japan, have examined the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms, ownership structure...

This paper investigates whether increased corporate focus surrounding a spin-off is associated with abnormal short-run and long-run share return performance from January 1980 to April 2011. By looking at the share return performance of both focus-increasing and non-focus-increasing parent firms,...

Most of the previous studies on dividends in Malaysia focus on dividend signalling; there is hardly any published evidence relating dividend changes to firms’ profitability. Using a total of 2,396 dividend changes of companies listed on Bursa Malaysia over the period 1998-2007, this study...