Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the number of outside directors on the board of directors and dividend payout are substitutes or complements mechanisms applied by UK firms to control agency conflicts of interest within the firm. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the frequency of board meetings as an index for board activity including their monitoring role. Design/methodology/approach – The research sample is composed of 120 UK firms based on their market capitalization for the...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the value relevance of accounting information for Islamic, conventional and hybrid banks. It also investigates the moderation impact of IFRS adoption and AAOIFI mandatory adoption on value relevance of accounting information....

Purpose: This paper contributes to risk management research with reference to disclosure of risk specific information within the oil and gas industry. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding voluntary and mandatory disclosure behaviour from both a quantitative and qualitative...

Purpose: The authors examine the impact of corporate investment efficiency on corporate voluntary disclosure for a sample of UK non-financial companies. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use a sample of FTSE All-Share firms for the period of 2007–2014. Disclosure scores are collected...

Purpose: The authors examine whether managers switch from artificial income smoothing using discretionary accruals to real income smoothing around corporate governance reform in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach: The sample comprises 61 non-financial companies listed on the Egyptian Stock...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a novel approach to examine sustainability report narratives by considering key features of these narratives including, forward-looking content, risk content, tone and sustainability-specific content. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of UK firms'...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on risk and forward-looking disclosures in Qatar. Design/methodology/approach: The authors automatically measure levels of risk and forward-looking disclosures in the annual reports of Qatari firms for the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate earnings management by firms reporting a small profit or a small loss after the recent evidence that the discontinuity around zero earnings has disappeared. Design/methodology/approach: Using a large sample of US firms for the period...

Purpose – This paper aims to extend and contribute to prior UK research on the association between information asymmetry and dividends propensity. It seeks to investigate the impact of the number of analysts following firms, a proxy for information asymmetry, on dividends propensity....