Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption and corporate governance mechanisms (e.g., Board characteristics and Audit Committee (AC) characteristics) on Audit Report Lag (ARL) in an emerging country, named...

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between internal audit effectiveness, internal auditor's responsibility, training and fraud detection. During the last decade internal auditing has become an integral part of modern businesses since it is capable of detecting errors or...

Research Question- What is the impact of domestic and international uncertainty shocks on the relationship between book value, earnings, and stock price? Motivation- We refer to the prior research on the value relevance of accounting information (Dunham & Grandstaff, 2021) which offers valuable...

There has been some controversy regarding the burden that the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX 404) casts on American public companies and whether the benefits outweigh the costs of compliance. Starting with November 15, 2004, Section 404 of the Act requires all accelerated firms (with at least...

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...

The paper is a commentary on the future of management accounting in Central and Eastern European countries, portrayed in the manuscript in the Journal Sustainability in its Special Issue titled "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Developing Countries: Current Trends and Development". The...

Research Question: The main research question is "Has the fraud examination had any impact on accounting and audit students' attitudes to fraud?" Motivation: The problem of financial statement fraud is still actual. Accountants and auditors need a special education about fraud and ethical values...

Research Question - Did Greek listed firms engage in earnings management practices during the initial phase of the 2010's economic crisis? Motivation - Impact of structural attributes of a country along with firms' characteristics on economic entities' accounting policy decisions. Idea - Firms'...

Starting with 2016, the Romanian authorities decided that 17 state-owned companies should use IFRS in their individual financial statements. The objective of this paper is to analyse how these companies have applied the accounting standards – before the transition to IFRS (2010-2017) –...