The purpose of this article is to identify the relationship between working capital management and corporate performance in adverse economic circumstances. The results show positive relationship between profitability and cash conversion cycle, firm's size, growth and leverage and negative...

In the last years, and especially during the recent financial crisis there is an ongoing debate about non-perorming loans (NPLs) as they have increased enormously, even in developed countries. This phenomenon has deteriorated the overall status of banks, especially in countries that affected...

This study examines the association between financial restatements and audit fees, and the effect of board of directors turnover on this relationship. Restatements are seen as a financial reporting failure, increasing risk for the auditor resulting in a higher audit fee. Regression analysis...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether cointegration and causality relationships exists among the Europrean Stock Markets come to be known as the PIIGS, an acronym for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. By testing whether such kind of relationships exist among these stock markets,...

"This book focuses on the consequences of the recent and prior financial crises. It also explores the relation between stock market and macroeconomics factors, earnings management, portfolio and pricing models as well as the reporting of accounting information and accounting standards"--

This paper investigates whether cointegration and causality relationships exist among the stock markets of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) during the period 2005-2011. To accomplish our objective, we divide the sample period into two sub-periods (1 February...

This study examines the association between financial restatements and audit fees, and the effect of board of directors turnover on this relationship. Restatements are seen as a financial reporting failure, increasing risk for the auditor resulting in a higher audit fee. Regression analysis...