Das Bestehen am Markt wurde in der Vergangenheit zunehmend in Abhängigkeit vom Wachstum durch Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im weitestenSinne gesehen. Selbst wenn Größe als das Ergebnis der Zusammenschlüsse als solche nicht mehr das Ziel ist, wird das Nutzen von Synergieeffekten zur...

As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in the order to promote their performance.Tournaments in which agents compete for a bonus by investing effort, are frequentlyapplied, e.g., in development races, political...

When two or more agents compete for a bonus and the agents' productivity in each of several possible occurrences depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn,...

Risk reporting is an emerging reporting challenge in Europe. Current literature assumescorporate risk reporting to be informative for its users. The purpose of this paper is toinvestigate in how far risk disclosures can meet the information function alleged.Embedded in frameworks of economics of...

Managerial forecast disclosure has gained increasing interest. Besides voluntary publication,managers are more and more obliged to disclose forecasts by recent accountingregulation. This acknowledges the common proposition that forecasts were exceptionallyrelevant and decision useful information...

Financial statements reflect important information about the entity's financial position, operating performance, and cash flows and must be made available in a timely fashion to all interested factions to stimulate opportune business judgments. Ergo, this paper examines the association of the...

Family firms, as a unique organizational form, are associated with distinct finance, accounting, and tax behaviors. Prior research indicates that heterogeneity among family firms is linked to significant variation concerning these outcomes. However, the scope of dissimilarities, their empirical...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

The paper is a commentary on the future of management accounting in Central and Eastern European countries, portrayed in the manuscript in the Journal Sustainability in its Special Issue titled "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Developing Countries: Current Trends and Development". The...

Research Question: The main research question is "Has the fraud examination had any impact on accounting and audit students' attitudes to fraud?" Motivation: The problem of financial statement fraud is still actual. Accountants and auditors need a special education about fraud and ethical values...