The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and characteristics of voluntary internet disclosures by listed companies in Saudi Arabia and Oman. This paper uses archival data from listed companies on Tadawul Stock Exchange and Muscat Securities Market. Mann-Whitney test is used to examine...

This paper investigates the extent and variety of practices of internet financial reporting (IFR) by companies listed on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) in Oman. While IFR is fast becoming the norm in most western countries, there is little empirical evidence of the phenomenon in the Middle...

Most of the studies that have examined management accounting practices have done so irrespective of the nature and characteristics of organizations. Little is known about the impact of the difference in the nature of organization on management accounting practices. Hence, this study investigates...

The major objectives of regulating the banks are to reduce the risk of failure and to achieve some desired social goals. Regulations are designed to prevent commercial banks from becoming too risky and to maintain public confidence in the country's financial system. The economic argument for...

This paper examines the association between firms' debt financing structure and operating performance. The paper focuses on debt as the firms' loans from banks, which is the general trend of debt financing in Egypt. Firms' operating performance is measured by three operating measures. The...

Since stocks’ systematic and unsystematic risks are considered the basic requirements to form an investment risk profile, this article develops a discriminant model to monitor the systematic and unsystematic risk in the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) general index. Three sectors are...

This study examines the relative speed of adjustments of debt ratios and explanatory powers of three groups of determinants of capital structure: firm-specific, country-wide and industry-wide. The sample includes non-financial firms listed in the DJIA and NASDAQ for quarterly periods 1992-2010....

This study examines the financial and statistical properties of the variance and semi variance (SV). Since the mean-variance approach and its extended mean-semi variance approach assume normality of returns, it has been observed that practical and computational problems emerged in the cases of...