Research Question - Does CEO overconfidence have an effect on the level of real earnings management (REM) in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) context? Motivation - the relationship between the overconfident manager's behavior and REM in the context of M&A has gained momentum in the accounting...

Research Question - Does Good Corporate Governance have a moderating effect on the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Real earnings management? Motivation - Nowadays, the relationship between responsible governance and REM has gained momentum in the accounting and financial...

This research study aims to obtain empirical evidence to the influence of company characteristics (firm size, profitability, leverage and liquidity) and good corporate governance (audit committee, board size, and public ownership structure) toward the risk management disclosure. This research...

This paper investigates the influence that an independently structured board exerts over implementing sound financial and non-financial disclosure mechanisms (especially regarding corporate governance mechanisms) in listed companies from four European emerging countries (Estonia, Poland, Hungary...

This study aims to determine the extent to which Jordanian banks comply with the principles of Corporate Governance from the viewpoint of the related regulatory bodies. We rely on the corporate governance topics discussed in the World Bank's ROSC Report. Sixty postal questionnaires have been...

The purpose of the study was to establish the impact of audit committee characteristics on audit fees from listed companies in Ghana. Audit committee size, gender diversity, meeting, and financial expertise were adopted to measure audit committee characteristics against the fees charged by the...

This study aims to prove the consistency of Agency Theory as a solution to explain the role of the influence of Profitability Ratio, Activity, company size, audit committee and Board of Directors on Sustainability. This study uses a quantitative approach with population and research samples...

Durch vermehrt aufgetretene Finanzskandale und Zusammenbrüche namhafter Unternehmen wurde in den letzten Jahren das Vertrauen der Anleger nachhaltig gestört. Um die Glaubwürdigkeit in die veröffentlichten Finanzinformationen und in die Sicherheit der unternehmerischen Überwachungsprozesse...

In order to show the consistency of agency theory as a theory to explain the influence of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors on Sustainability, this study will explore the role of moderating actions of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors on Sustainability. The firms that...

Motivated by agency theory and arguments from linguistic studies, we argue in this paper the internationalization of a firm's audit committee to be associated with weaker firm-level corporate governance. Based on 2,015 publicly traded European firms from 16 countries over 2000-2018, we find the...