Purpose: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a popular vehicle for domestic as well as international companies to rapidly access new markets, assets and capabilities. This motivates us to study the impact of open offers on shareholders returns in the Indian context....

The continuous demand for enhanced financial reporting has highlighted the decline of the usefulness of traditional financial statements in satisfying the informational needs and requirements of users. Despite there being several points of view, many proposals revolve around the increase of...

In modern tax systems, firms remit the majority of tax revenues raised by the government, which gives them opportunities to avoid and evade taxes by misreporting their activities. In this paper, we use a natural policy experiment to analyze how firms respond to different tax enforcement regimes....

This paper analysed Japan’s top three mega bank groups’ activities towards a low carbon economy by focusing on their securities companies. The three groups, namely MUFG, SMFG and MHFG, have enormously influenced, not only in Japan’s economy, but the global economy owing to their sizes....

The purpose of this study is to explore how the audit of building societies changed in the late 1950s in a reversion of audit objective from ‘fraud detection’ to ‘statement verification’ (Chandler et al., 1993: 452). Of particular interest is the analysis of the extended negotiations...

Following the collapse of Enron, many questions have been raised as to why the UK has avoided its Enron. Many commentators have considered whether this is due to the fact that the UK's system of financial regulation relies more on a principles based system, which promotes more fairness in its...

This article explores the manipulation of published financial reports in order to counter perceived unfavourable impact, on an entity, of newly introduced regulations. The article departs from the traditional analysis of asset depreciation in manufacturing or mining and the link between market...

This paper has the following aims: - To display the nature of the contractual civil responsibility to wich is potentially exposed the external auditor of financial statements; - To determine its practical consequences; and - To contribute to accomplish a link between the legal knowledge and the...

To be able to assist in a credible business in our country accounting unit itself had to adapt on the one hand to the new trends of harmonization and standardization of existing on the international front, and on the other hand the new requirements of the environment business in the process of...

This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also emphasised. The main objective of this chapter is to...