In response to the concern of various financial information users regarding segmental disclosure, the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) issued MASB 22, Segment Reporting in 2000. It became effective for the accounting year beginning on or after 1 January 2002. This paper attempts to...

This study aims to investigate whether competitive disadvantage is experienced by Malaysian companies as they disclose segmental information under the new accounting standard known as FRS 114, Segment Reporting. The study consists of 374 Malaysian publicly listed companies which disclosed...

Using 743 Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the impact of corporate governance mechanism on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure level and to examine the difference of CSR disclosure level in government-linked companies and non-government linked...

Using 743 Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the impact of corporate governance mechanism on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure level and to examine the difference of CSR disclosure level in government-linked companies and non-government linked...

This paper investigates the distribution of the cross-sectional earnings per share and changes in earnings per share to exceed two psychological benchmarks that are avoiding losses and avoiding earnings decrease using sample of 4,565 firm years and 1,530 firm years of Malaysian public listed...

Employing 451 annual reports of 2006 from Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the organisational factors like company size, its listing status, financial leverage and industrial membership that influence the disclosure of segmental information under the...

Employing 451 annual reports of 2006 from Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the organisational factors like company size, its listing status, financial leverage and industrial membership that influence the disclosure of segmental information under the...

This study aims to investigate whether competitive disadvantage is experienced by Malaysian companies as they disclose segmental information under the new accounting standard known as FRS 114, Segment Reporting. The study consists of 374 Malaysian publicly listed companies which disclosed...

This paper investigates the distribution of the cross-sectional earnings per share and changes in earnings per share to exceed two psychological benchmarks that are avoiding losses and avoiding earnings decrease using sample of 4,565 firm years and 1,530 firm years of Malaysian public listed...

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 130 and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) require companies to report their comprehensive income in their primary financial statements. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) permits companies to present...