Within the European Union, parent companies have to prepare and publish both consolidated and individual financial statements. The objective of financial statements with general purpose is to give information regarding the financial position, performance and changes in financial position of the...

Research Question - Can the F-Score predict the stock market returns in the cross section of international stock markets? Motivation - The majority of the literature, in the area of the F-Score metric, has examined whether it can be used to predict future financial profitability, the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the question of whether the sole focus of standard setters developing accounting standards that are useful to external users for making decisions about providing resources to the entity result in useful accounting information. To answer this question, we...

Accounting for defined benefit pension plans is complex, and given the magnitude of many of these schemes relative to their corporate sponsor, understanding whether pension disclosures are value relevant is key to improving the quality of financial reports. The application of fair value...

The financial distress risk concept has been referred as follow: negative net assets, insolvency, bond default, overdraft, unpaid dividends for the preferred stocks, bankruptcy etc. From all the stakeholders, investors are interested in the financial position and performance of a company and its...

Research Question: Whether the adoption of IFRSs has led to the harmonization and comparability of Baltic listed companies' cash flow statements? Motivation: Baker and Barbu (2007) have marked that the adoption of IFRSs in EU is the new phase of international harmonization. However, IFRSs still...

Research question -This paper investigates the impact that specific audit quality dimensions have upon European Union Banks' income smoothing behavior. Motivation - Although previous studies have investigated the characteristics of audit quality, little is known about the audit quality in the...

The paper analyzes the impact of accounting disclosure on the prediction quality of stock market prices. The study also investigates whether a changing socio-political context affects the prediction quality. We focused on the Tunisian case, which has known a political turmoil in January 2011....

Research question - This study investigates whether the release of financial accounting information is related to the change in stock prices. Motivation - The relationship between accounting information and stock price reaction is well documented in the United States and other major developed...

Research Question: What are the main security threats emphasized by national and international surveys? Motivation: The rapid growth of IT brings worldwide security issues (Takahashi et al., 2010; Benjamin et al., 2015). IT usage brings new challenges (e.g. higher risks of data exposure, sensitive...