This study basically examined the effects of corporate governance mechanism on earnings management in Nigeria. To achieve the objectives of this study, a total of 40 listed firms in the Nigerian stock exchange market were selected and analyzed for this study using the judgmental sampling...

Codes of ethics encompass companies’ vision on business conduct and ethics in relation with its stakeholders. Presenting a code of ethics is rather a voluntarily process, therefore a large amount of heterogeneity is found among such codes. A general model of code of ethics would be a...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

This study examines the effect of IFRS adoption on the performance evaluation of a case firm using some financial ratios selected from four major categories of financial ratios. The study was conducted through comparison of the ratios that were computed from IFRS based financial statements and...

Due to investor relations sections placed on corporate websites shareholders have an access to current information on stock issuers’ activities. This enables investors to participate in discussions on decisions met by a board of a company. Transparent and comprehensible information should...

The main objective of this paper is to test a research hypothesis regarding the preference for IFRSs adoption in Islamic countries. The hypothesis has been tested on a dataset of 38 Islamic countries inside the framework of a Discrete and Limited Dependent Variable Model. We have obtained robust...

This study investigates the extent of compliance with international financial reporting standards (IFRSs) by listed companies in Turkey. Based on a sample of 168 companies we investigate the extent to which companies comply with IFRS disclosure requirements in their year - 2011 financial...

The development of accounting system and practices in a country is a reflection of its economic development as well as legislative process. Turkey has not been an exception. Its economic development has led the accounting practices to change from tax and state oriented towards international...

The paper aims to present the most important characteristics of the evolution of the accounting system in Slovenia, emphasizing the most important features of the national accounting standards as well as the institutional framework that has affected the accounting development. Slovenia is a code...

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the introduction of IFRSs within the social history of the modernization of Romanian economy and society, and to investigate the extent to which the potential benefits expected from their adoption are starting materialize. Based on an extensive literature...