Research Question- What's the extent voluntary and timely disclosure of environmental information could be explained by the corporate governance? And what's the extent can the media exposure affect the relationship between corporate governance and the quality of disclosure of environmental...

Research question - This study investigates and analyzes the influence of earnings management on audit report lag. It also intends to develop a thorough understanding regarding the mediating effect of audit risk on this relation. Motivation - The outcomes of this paper will help to bridge the...

Research Question - The objective of this article is to help external auditors resume their activities and enhance their foresight strategy. Specifically, it aims to identify variables that contribute to improved auditors activities primarily post-COVID. Motivation - In light of the challenges...

Research Question- To what extent can governance mechanisms (audit committee and board of directors) affect the relationship between dividend policy and earnings management? Motivation- The majority of the literature has showed that dividend policy can influence earnings management. However, the...

Purpose - A separate study of the different behavioral biases does not allow for a full understanding of the complexity and stability of the heterogeneity of beliefs. Therefore, through a more global view of these anomalies, the authors wish to show that they can converge on a single concept,...

Purpose - The objective of this paper is to investigate the direction of the causal relationship between dividend policy (DP) and earnings management (EM). Design/methodology/approach This research utilizes the panel data analysis to investigate the causal relationship between EM and DP. It...

The aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of firms' financial policies according to the manager's psychological characteristics. More specifically, it examines the links between emotional intelligence, decision biases and the effectiveness of firms' financial policies. The article...

Psychological biases represent new paradigms that complement traditional behavioral finance theory while introducing "behaviorist" aspects to the decision-making process. The aim of this paper is to examine the mental models of actors in Tunisian firms with respect to the behavioral approach to...

This article scrutinizes the leader's emotional intelligence effect on the enterprises' performance (diversification is the main strategy). After the theoretical discussion which approaches our subject matter, we propose our research assumptions. Thus, this research attempts to answer our...

The present work's major objective consists in examining the impact of institutional investors' presence on corporate diversification decision. For this sake, a theoretical framework based on the corporate governance contractual approach has been advanced highlighting the idea that the presence...