item: #1 of 392 id: ajfa-1001 author: Bui, Yen Hoang title: The Issue of Transparency in the Financial Statements of Commercial Banks: Empirical Evidence after the Global Financial Crisis date: 2011 words: 10330 flesch: 60 summary: 2.1 Effects of fair value accounting Proponents of fair value accounting believe that fair value measurement provides timely information to the market and increases the relevance and transparency of financial reporting (Barth and Landsman, 2010; Mala and Chand, 2011). From a prudential perspective, opponents to fair value accounting have contended that reporting assets and liabilities at fair value contributed to capital losses and rendered banks undercapitalised. keywords: accounting; assets; banks; capital; change; disclosures; ffvi; finance; financial; income; instruments; journal; market; tcr; value; value accounting cache: ajfa-1001.pdf plain text: ajfa-1001.txt item: #2 of 392 id: ajfa-10056 author: Abeysekera, Amal Peter; Pulukkuttige Don, Nimal title: The Impact of the Financial Sector on Asset Pricing Tests: Evidence from the Colombo Stock Exchange date: 2016 words: 5627 flesch: 56 summary: The study finds that the four-factor model; incorporating the market premium, size premium, value premium and momentum premium provides a satisfactory explanation of the variation in the cross-section of average stock returns in the CSE, even when the financial sector is included. The spread in momentum average returns is highest for the small-cap stocks when financial firms are excluded and it is highest for the big-cap stocks when all companies are considered. keywords: average; factor; financial; model; portfolios; returns; size cache: ajfa-10056.pdf plain text: ajfa-10056.txt item: #3 of 392 id: ajfa-10074 author: Pham, Ngoc Kim; Duong, Hung Nguyen; Pham, Tin Quang; Ho, Nga Thi Thuy title: Audit Firm Size, Audit Fee, Audit Reputation and Audit Quality: The Case of Listed Companies in Vietnam date: 2017 words: 7704 flesch: 52 summary: Thus, audit quality is associated with the quality of audited financial reports as higher audit quality provides greater assurance of high financial reporting quality (DeFond and Zhang, 2014). In another word, earnings management is eliminated by high audit quality, thus, it is an appropriate proxy of audit quality (DeFond and Zhang, 2014). keywords: accounting; audit; audit firms; audit quality; auditors; companies; earnings; fees; finance; firms; journal; management; reputation; study; vietnam cache: ajfa-10074.pdf plain text: ajfa-10074.txt item: #4 of 392 id: ajfa-10095 author: Chen, Guang-Zheng title: The Influence of Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance on Managerial Myopic Behavior date: 2016 words: 8113 flesch: 54 summary: I therefore expect that D&O insurance coverage is associated with myopic R&D investment behavior. This study extends this line of research by provide evidence that D&O insurance coverage appears to be an important determinant of managerial myopia. keywords: accounting; coverage; d&o; earnings; expenditures; firm; group; insurance; journal; managers; r&d; value; year cache: ajfa-10095.pdf plain text: ajfa-10095.txt item: #5 of 392 id: ajfa-10186 author: Ahn, Seoungpil; Hong, Gwangheon title: Protection of Investors’ Rights and the Long-Run Performance of Rule 144A Private Equity Offerings date: 2016 words: 3919 flesch: 55 summary: Rule 144A Issuance by Countries country Initial Data DS Data Legal Origin Anti-Direct or Rights Judicial Efficiency Accounting Standards India 53 39 English 5 8.00 57 Taiwan 41 38 German 3 6.75 65 Korea 22 20 German 2 6.00 62 Russia 18 0 NA NA NA NA Mexico 17 0 French 1 6.00 60 Turkey 15 12 French 2 4.00 51 Poland 13 6 NA NA NA NA Egypt 9 5 NA NA NA NA Italy 9 7 French 1 6.75 62 South Africa 9 9 English 5 6.00 70 Greece 8 6 French 2 7.00 55 Hungary 8 5 NA NA NA NA Argentina 7 5 French 4 6.00 45 China 7 2 NA NA NA NA Australia 6 6 English 4 10.00 75 France 6 4 French 3 8.00 69 Philippines 6 6 French 3 4.75 65 Switzerland 6 5 German 2 10.00 68 UK 6 3 English 5 10.00 78 Columbia 5 1 French 3 7.25 50 Japan 5 1 German 4 10.00 65 Germany 4 4 German 1 9.00 62 Peru 4 3 French 3 6.75 38 Portugal 4 3 French 3 5.50 36 Spain 4 1 French 4 6.25 64 Austria 3 3 German 2 9.50 54 Brazil 3 1 French 3 5.75 54 Chile 3 1 French 5 7.25 52 Croatia 3 1 NA NA NA NA Finland 3 2 Scandinavian 3 10.00 77 Ireland 3 1 English 4 8.75 74 Israel 3 0 English 3 10.00 64 Lebanon 3 1 keywords: 144a; accounting; capital; equity; financing; firms; na na; rule cache: ajfa-10186.pdf plain text: ajfa-10186.txt item: #6 of 392 id: ajfa-10197 author: Olowolaju, Philip Segun; Oluwasesin, Olayemi Deborah title: Effect of Human Capital Expenditure on the Profitability of Quoted Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria date: 2016 words: 6121 flesch: 44 summary: The study concluded that human capital expenditure significantly influenced profitability of manufacturing Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 156 companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and companies that place more emphasis on human capital, maintaining it and treating it as a pure asset will have motivated work force. 2.3 Empirical Framework Realizing the importance of human capital as a valuable resource for innovation, enhancement and maintenance of organizational competitive advantage and at the same time improving its corporate image in the global market, many researchers in Nigeria, United states, Europe, United Kingdom, Australian, China, Denmark, India, Finland, Kujansiva and some other countries all over the world have conducted intensive research on various aspects of human capital expenditure. keywords: accounting; capital; capital expenditure; companies; expenditure; human; journal; profitability; study; training; variables cache: ajfa-10197.pdf plain text: ajfa-10197.txt item: #7 of 392 id: ajfa-10198 author: Obeidat, Mohammed Ibrahim Sultan title: Capital Structure Effect on the Practices of Earnings Management Phenomenon? The Evidence of Listed Firms in Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange date: 2016 words: 9685 flesch: 48 summary: Non-discretional accruals do not involve earnings management practice, whereas discretionary accruals are rich field for practicing the phenomenon of earnings management. Several procedures are taken to reduce the practices of earnings management such as the issuance of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and corporate governance to reduce earnings management practices. keywords: accounting; accruals; capital; debt; earnings management; firms; journal; management phenomenon; management practices; phenomenon; practices; structure; study cache: ajfa-10198.pdf plain text: ajfa-10198.txt item: #8 of 392 id: ajfa-1027 author: Al-Qaisi, Khaldoun Maddallh title: Predicting the Profit per Share Using Financial Ratios date: 2011 words: 3587 flesch: 60 summary: Linear regression was used to test the effect of financial profit ratio on the accomplished profit per share. Table 2 shows positive effect of financial profit ratio on predicting the profit per share accomplished. keywords: effect; model; profit; ratio; regression; share; square cache: ajfa-1027.pdf plain text: ajfa-1027.txt item: #9 of 392 id: ajfa-10274 author: Anarfi, Daniel; Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Boateng, Eunice title: Determinants of Bank Profitability in Ghana: New Evidence date: 2016 words: 3543 flesch: 56 summary: Introduction The objective of this study is to investigate the determinants banks profitability for the period of 2007-2014. Also the ROA as a measurement for bank profitability shows bank management’s efficiency in managing its capitals to acquire assets and make earnings from it (Jamal & Karim, 2012). keywords: assets; bank; determinants; journal; profitability; roa; total; variables cache: ajfa-10274.pdf plain text: ajfa-10274.txt item: #10 of 392 id: ajfa-10288 author: Stevcevska Srbinoska, Dusica; Smokvarski, Edi title: Post-merger Integration Approaches: Case Analysis of the One. Vip Macedonia Merger date: 2017 words: 3597 flesch: 36 summary: Keywords: Integration process, Integration approach, Merger and acquisition, Macedonian market Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 229 1. Vip merger integration, it is evident that the integration process must be aligned with the pre-set acquisition goals. keywords: 052x; accounting; entity; finance; integration; market; merger; skopje; structure; vol cache: ajfa-10288.pdf plain text: ajfa-10288.txt item: #11 of 392 id: ajfa-10322 author: Yeh, Yaying Mary Chou; Hsieh, Wen-Chi title: Does Board Supervisory Quality Enhance Corporate Social Performance?-Evidence from Taiwanese Listed Firms date: 2017 words: 7876 flesch: 49 summary: Corporate boards in OECD countries: Size, composition, functioning and effectiveness. However, board social capital and training significantly but negatively impact CSP, implying busy board and inexperienced board detriments CSP. keywords: accounting; asian; attendance; board; csp; csr; directors; finance; firms; governance; journal; meeting; performance; quality; results; training cache: ajfa-10322.pdf plain text: ajfa-10322.txt item: #12 of 392 id: ajfa-10343 author: Mele, Marco title: A Logical Process about the Chaos in FOREX Financial Market date: 2017 words: 4544 flesch: 54 summary: Non-linear systems exhibit complex effects that are not deductible with linear methods, especially characteristic of dynamic systems. In the literature, four basic reasons have been advanced concerning the non-linear models, and because not provide more accurate forecasts than simple linear models even when the assumption of linearity is significantly rejected for the estimation period (Diebold e Nason, 1990): (i) non-linearity affecting moments higher than the average and, therefore, does not prove useful to improve the point forecasts; (ii) non-linearity present during the estimation period are due to structural changes or outliers that cannot be exploited to improve the out-of-sample forecasts; (iii) non-linearities in average even though they are a feature of the data generating process are not relevant enough to offer most of the gains in terms of forecast accuracy; (iv) non-linearity present are described by the wrong type of non-linear model. keywords: exchange; linear; non; system; truth; value cache: ajfa-10343.pdf plain text: ajfa-10343.txt item: #13 of 392 id: ajfa-10372 author: Saiful, Saiful title: Contingency Factors, Risk Management, and Performance of Indonesian Banks date: 2017 words: 6935 flesch: 50 summary: Dannon (2009) states that the internal governance mechanism including independent board Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 41 role more effective in explaining bank risk. Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of enterprise risk management (ERM) and credit risk management (CMR) on Indonesian bank performance. keywords: accounting; bank; bank performance; credit; crm; erm; independent; journal; management; performance; relationship; risk; risk management cache: ajfa-10372.pdf plain text: ajfa-10372.txt item: #14 of 392 id: ajfa-10383 author: Lin, Ku-Jun; Chen, Hai-Ming; Chen, Hsiu-Mei; Lo, Wen-Chen title: The Impact of Second Generation National Health Insurance on Stock Prices- based upon Supplementary Premium Charges on Dividend Income date: 2016 words: 8537 flesch: 53 summary: This new insurance system, charging NHI premiums according to the insureds’ real financial condition, is much more equitable. NHI supplementary premium charges based on income from part-time jobs, business income, dividend income, interest income and rental income have sprouted many fee-avoidance measures. keywords: act; day; event; generation nhi; income; journal; nhi; nhi act; period; premium; return; second; stock; study; supplementary cache: ajfa-10383.pdf plain text: ajfa-10383.txt item: #15 of 392 id: ajfa-10600 author: Bibi, Nazish; Amjad, Shehla title: The Relationship between Liquidity and Firms’ Profitability: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange date: 2017 words: 5296 flesch: 50 summary: WORKING capital, firms performance and financial distress in firms listed in tehran stock exchange (TSE). Large firms purchase inventory in large quantities in order to get quantity discounts. keywords: assets; capital; cash; firms; journal; liquidity; management; profitability; relationship; working cache: ajfa-10600.pdf plain text: ajfa-10600.txt item: #16 of 392 id: ajfa-10605 author: Tran, Quan Nhu title: The Behavior Patterns of Investors in Thailand Stock Market date: 2017 words: 5063 flesch: 50 summary: Stock prices then reflect their true value and Thailand stock market becomes the yardstick of the economy’s wealth and helps enterprises to raise capital for business activities. Therefore, this research seeks the answer to the question: What is the behavior of individual investors in Thailand stock market? keywords: behavior; finance; information; investment; investors; journal; market; risk; stock; thailand cache: ajfa-10605.pdf plain text: ajfa-10605.txt item: #17 of 392 id: ajfa-1067 author: Kiew-Heong, Yap title: Internet Financial Reporting in Malaysia: The Preparers’ View date: 2011 words: 9097 flesch: 49 summary: Most of the respondents agreed the Internet offers easy access to company financial information. Do you think statutory body/accounting standard body/securities regulator should regulate company Internet reporting? keywords: accounting; companies; company; disclosure; finance; governance; ifr; information; internet; journal; reporting; researchers; respondents; study; web;   cache: ajfa-1067.pdf plain text: ajfa-1067.txt item: #18 of 392 id: ajfa-10712 author: Huda, Farzana; Chowdhury, Tanbir Ahmed title: Merchant Banking Operation: A Case Study of Selected Merchant Banks in Bangladesh date: 2017 words: 5499 flesch: 56 summary: Performance Evaluation of Selected Merchant Banks of Bangladesh This section evaluates the activities, development and prospect of selected merchant banks from year 2011 to 2015. In esteem to this analysis various variables i.e. investment in securities, margin loan to clients, brokerage commission, capital gain/loss from securities, portfolio management services, issue management fees, corporate advisory fees and underwriting commission and their growth percentage has been considered to evaluate the performance of selected merchant banks in Bangladesh. keywords: banks; finance; growth; investment ltd; ltd; management; merchant; table; trend cache: ajfa-10712.pdf plain text: ajfa-10712.txt item: #19 of 392 id: ajfa-10763 author: Hsu, Hui-Wen title: CEO Overconfidence and Fair Value Reporting-the Moderating Effect of Corporate Governance date: 2017 words: 7927 flesch: 58 summary: Given the ongoing debate as to whether fair values can be measured with sufficient reliability and whether they can be opportunistically manipulated, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 157, which became effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. SFAS No. 157 offers a uniform definition of fair value, develops a framework for measuring this, and expands disclosure about fair value measurements. keywords: accounting; assets; ceo; ceo overconfidence; finance; firms; governance; journal; level; overconfidence; total; values cache: ajfa-10763.pdf plain text: ajfa-10763.txt item: #20 of 392 id: ajfa-10795 author: Takhtaei, Nasrollah; Karimi, Hassan title: The Effect of Firm Size on Predictability Future Cash Flows Using Earnings and Operating Cash Flows date: 2017 words: 6417 flesch: 47 summary: In their analysis, they define earnings as the earnings before extraordinary items and discontinued operations; cash flows from operations as the as operating income before depreciation minus interest minus taxes minus changes in noncash working capital; and also operating accruals as the earnings before extraordinary items and discontinued operations minus cash flow from operations. He directly obtains cash flow from operations from statement of cash flows and earnings from income statement of the companies. keywords: accounting; cash; cash flow; cfoi; earnings; flows; items; operations; t-1; year t cache: ajfa-10795.pdf plain text: ajfa-10795.txt item: #21 of 392 id: ajfa-10871 author: Chowdhury, Tanbir Ahmed; Jannatunnesa, Jannatunnesa title: Stock Market Investors’ Guide to Corporate Dividend Policy: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Industries in Bangladesh date: 2017 words: 9269 flesch: 52 summary: The relevance and irrelevance of dividend policy have been analyzed by finance scholars based on a number of dividend policy theories (Miller and Modigliani, 1961; Gordon, 1956; Linter, 1959). Numerous studies examined the individual factors affecting dividend policy with detailed analyses and interpretations, especially in the developed globe. keywords: accounting; bangladesh; determinants; dividend; dividend payout; dividend policy; finance; firm; growth; journal; market; pharmaceuticals; positive; ratio; research; stock; study cache: ajfa-10871.pdf plain text: ajfa-10871.txt item: #22 of 392 id: ajfa-10878 author: Mustafa, Aree Saeed; Che-Ahmad, Ayoib; Chandren, Sitraselvi a/p title: Ownership Patterns and Control of Top 100 Turkish Listed Companies date: 2017 words: 7320 flesch: 53 summary: The divergence between controls rights (voting rights) and ownership rights (cash flow rights) relay on the length of the control-ownership chains of the pyramidal ownership structure. The study results indicate that the divergence between cash rights and control rights (wedge)in the top 100 Turkish firms is mainly achieved through pyramidal-ownership structure, dual class shares, Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 193 and cross-ownership at about 41%, 40% and 11%, respectively, while approximately 8% of firms do not use wedge. keywords: cash; class; control; firms; flow; governance; holding; journal; ownership; pyramidal; rights; shareholders; shares; structure; turkey cache: ajfa-10878.pdf plain text: ajfa-10878.txt item: #23 of 392 id: ajfa-10913 author: Owusu Junior, Peterson; Korkpoe, Carl H. title: Generalised Lambda Distributions by Method of Moments and Maximum Likelihood using the JSE-ASI Returns date: 2017 words: 6795 flesch: 54 summary: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 225 Keywords: generalised hyperbolic distribution (GHD), generalised lambda distribution (GLD), modified Bessel function, MLE, GMM Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 226 1. Pfaff (2013) for instance, applies the GHD and its special cases, namely; hyperbolic distribution (HYP), normal inverse Gaussian distribution (NIG), and generalised lambda distribution (GLD) to financial market data; the Hewlett-Packard (HWP), to draw useful insights. keywords: data; distribution; estimation; finance; gld; gmm; journal; lambda; likelihood; method; moments; returns cache: ajfa-10913.pdf plain text: ajfa-10913.txt item: #24 of 392 id: ajfa-10968 author: Mahadi, Rozaidy; Abdul Khalid, Siti Nabiha; Mail, Rasid; Noordin, Raman title: Accrual Accounting in Public Sectors: Possible Contextual and Application Gaps for Future Research Agenda date: 2017 words: 6840 flesch: 26 summary: A study of conflict and ambiguity’ √ X Barton, A.D. (2004), ‘How to Profit from Defense: A Study in the Misapplication of Business Accounting to the Public Sector in Australia’ X √ Bogt, H.J. ter, (2008), ‘Management Accounting Change and New Public Management in Local Government: A Reassessment of Ambitions and Results –An Institutionalist Approach to Accounting Change in the Dutch Public Sector’ √ X Brignall, S. and Modell, S. (2000), ‘An institutional perspective on performance measurement and management in the ‘new public sector’’ √ Broadbent, J., Jacobs, K., & Laughlin, R. (1999), ‘Comparing schools in the UK and New Zealand: individualizing and socializing accountabilities and some implications for management control’ X √ Broadbent, J., Jacobs, K., & Laughlin, R (2001), ‘Organisational Resistance Strategies to Unwanted Accounting and Finance Changes: The Case of General Medical Practices in the U.K’ √ X Broadbent, J. and Laughlin R. (2002), ‘Accounting Choices: Technical and Political Trade-Offs and the U.K’s Private Finance Initiative’ X √ Broadbent, J. and R. Laughlin (2003), ‘The Role of PFI in the UK’s Government Modernization Agenda’ X √ Brorstrom, B. (1998), ‘Accrual Accounting, Politics and Politicians’ √ X Connolly, C. and Hyndman, N. (2006), ‘The actual implementation of accruals accounting caveats from a case within the UK Public Sector’ X √ Christianes, J. and Rommel, J. (2008), ‘Accrual Accounting Reforms: Only for Businesslike (Parts of) Governments’ √ X Christianes, J. and Wielemaker, E. D. (2003), ‘Financial Accounting reform in Flemish Universities: An Empirical study of the implementation’ X √ Christianes, M. (2002), ‘Accrual accounting in the Public Sector: The case of New South Wales government’ √ X Christianes, J. (2001), ‘Converging new public management reforms and diverging accounting practices in Flemish local governments’ √ √ X Doolin, B. (1999), ‘Casemic Management in a New Zealand Hospital: Rationalization and Resistance’ √ X Edwards, P., Ezzamel M., Mclean C. and Robson K. (2000), ‘Budgeting and Strategy in Schools: the Elusive Link’ X √ English, L. (2003), ‘Emasculating Public Accountability in the Name of Competition: Transformation of State Audit in Victoria’ √ √ X English, L.M. and Guthrie J. (2003), ‘Driving Privately Financed Projects in Australia: What Makes the Thick’ √ X Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 259 Ellwood, S. and Newberry S. (2007), ‘Public Sector accrual accounting: Institutionalizing neo-liberal principals’ √ X Garseth, L. (2011), ‘Accrual accounting representations in the public sector – A case of antopoiesis’ X Guthrie, J. (1998), ‘Application of accrual accounting in the Australian Public Sector: Rhetoric or reality’ √ √ X Harun, H., Peursem, K. V. and Eggleton I. (2012), ‘Institutionalization of Accrual Accounting in the Indonesian Public Sector’ √ X Hepworth, N. (2003), ‘Preconditions for successful implementation of accrual accounting in central government’ X Hodges, R. and Mellett, H. (2003), ‘Reporting Public Sector Financial Result’ X √ Hoque, Z. and Moll, J. (2001), ‘Public Sector reforms implications for accounting, accountability and performance of state-owned entities –Australia Perspective’ X √ Humphrey, C. and Miller, P. (2012), ‘Rethinking impact and redefining responsibility: The parameters and coordinates of accounting and public management reforms’ √ X Jagalla, T., Becker, S.D. and Weber, J. (2011), ‘A Taxonomy of the Perceived Benefits of Accrual Accounting and Budgeting: Evidence from German States’ This is good evidence of attempts to broaden the remit of public sector accounting research in order to consider a wider range of organisations (Broadbent and Guthrie, 2007; Guthrie, 1998), even though, as noted earlier, scholars are still attracted to studies at a local administration level. keywords: accounting; approaches; management; new; research; sector; studies; study; systems; techniques cache: ajfa-10968.pdf plain text: ajfa-10968.txt item: #25 of 392 id: ajfa-11003 author: Al-Naser, Khalis; Mohamed, Rapiah title: The Integration between Strategic Cost Management Techniques to Improve the Performance of Iraqi Manufacturing Companies date: 2017 words: 4941 flesch: 49 summary: Initially, it was observed that implementation of TQM has no impact on financial performance but later on it was seen that implementation of TQM has a positive impact on the firm performance. The impact of TQM on financial performance. keywords: accounting; bsc; business; journal; management; manufacturing; performance; perspective; quality; research; scorecard; tqm cache: ajfa-11003.pdf plain text: ajfa-11003.txt item: #26 of 392 id: ajfa-11020 author: Jaber, Amer Saadi; Manasrah, Mohammed Shuaib title: The Factors That Affect To Attract Deposits in Palestinian Islamic Banks date: 2017 words: 4650 flesch: 52 summary: - Third: the Experience of customer service staff in Palestinian Islamic banks. - Forth: the diversity and the development of services offered by Islamic banks in Palestine. 6.1.2 Cevik and Charap, (2011), a study entitled the behavior of return on deposits of Islamic banks and conventional banks in Malaysia and Turkey This study aimed to test the behavior of interest rates on bank deposits at conventional banks and the rate of return on investment accounts involved in the profit and loss among Islamic banks. keywords: banks; deposits; high; islamic; palestine; palestinian; study cache: ajfa-11020.pdf plain text: ajfa-11020.txt item: #27 of 392 id: ajfa-11073 author: Dash, Mihir title: A Model for Bank Performance Measurement Integrating Multivariate Factor Structure with Multi-Criteria PROMETHEE Methodology date: 2017 words: 8650 flesch: 59 summary: YES Bank 3 Bank of Baroda 3 Standard Chartered 4 Bank of India 4 South Indian Bank 5 Canara Bank 5 Kotak Mahindra 6 Corporation Bank 6 HDFC Bank 7 Central Bank of India 7 Federal Bank 8 Dena Bank 8 Dhanalaxmi Bank 9 Indian Overseas Bank 9 Development Credit Bank 10 Indian Bank 10 Karnataka Bank 11 Oriental Bank of Commerce 11 J &K Bank 12 Punjab National Bank 12 ING Vysya 13 State Bank of India 13 Bank of Rajasthan 14 IDBI Bank 14 Citi Bank 15 Syndicate Bank 15 Tamilnad Mercantile Bank 16 UCO Bank 16 ICICI Bank 17 Union Bank of India 18 United Bank 19 Vijaya Bank The CAMELS variables, averaged across the five-year period, were taken for the factor analysis, and the subsequent factor weights were used in conjunction with a multi-criteria procedure, PROMETHEE II (Doumpos and Zopounidis, 2011). Overall, the best performing banks were: Standard Chartered Bank, Indian Bank, Punjab National Bank, Union Bank of India, and Canara Bank, while the worst performing banks were: Development Credit Bank, United Bank, Dhanalakshmi Bank, ING Vysya Bank, and Bank of Rajasthan. keywords: accounting; assets; banking; banks; capital; factor; finance; india; journal; performance; promethee; ratio; risk; scores; sector banks; study; total cache: ajfa-11073.pdf plain text: ajfa-11073.txt item: #28 of 392 id: ajfa-11077 author: Hsiao, Chiu Ming title: The Foreign Exchange Exposures and Enterprise Risk Management: Evidence from Hospitality Industry in Taiwan date: 2017 words: 10940 flesch: 66 summary: Exposure to foreign exchange risk: A multi-currency extension. The empirical results show that the impacts of the fluctuation of foreign exchange rate on the business performance of hotels are significant and different across currencies and the size of a hotel. keywords: 052x; accounting; ajfa.macrothink.org; asian; company; exchange; finance; hotel; international; issn; journal; model; rate; risk; roa; roe; stationary; table; taiwan; tourism; variables; vol cache: ajfa-11077.pdf plain text: ajfa-11077.txt item: #29 of 392 id: ajfa-11129 author: Fan, Hong; Chen, Liqiang title: Politically Connected Independent Directors and Effective Tax Rates in China date: 2017 words: 7317 flesch: 50 summary: By 2013, independent board directors who were retired government officials were receiving considerable attention from the media because the public questioned their legitimacy.2Investors were concerned that officials might bestow unearned benefits on firms before retiring from the government to secure positions as independent directors because the salary for an independent director is significant. First, our study contributes to the understanding of the role of independent board directors in China, which is understudied in the literature (Wang, 2015). keywords: board; china; connections; directors; firms; government; independent; journal; non; soes; tax cache: ajfa-11129.pdf plain text: ajfa-11129.txt item: #30 of 392 id: ajfa-11150 author: Tin, Tong Trung; Diaz, John Francis T title: Determinants of Banks’ Capital Structure: Evidence from Vietnamese Commercial Banks date: 2017 words: 9737 flesch: 50 summary: The determinants of bank capital structure. Determinants of bank capital structure in developing countries: Regulatory capital requirement versus the standard determinants of capital structure. keywords: banks; capital; debt; finance; journal; leverage; market; model; ols; paper; size; stock; structure; study; vietnamese cache: ajfa-11150.pdf plain text: ajfa-11150.txt item: #31 of 392 id: ajfa-11161 author: Kengatharan, Lingesiya title: Do Firms' Characteristics Make a Difference of the Choice of Capital Budgeting Practices? Evidence from Sri Lanka date: 2017 words: 7935 flesch: 53 summary: Experience of financial officers and use of capital budgeting practices This section examines the difference in use of capital budgeting practice in terms of the experience of the financial officers (tenure). Keywords: Capital budgeting practices, firm characteristics, Sri Lankan companies Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 331 1. keywords: accounting; analysis; budgeting practices; capital budgeting; finance; firms; industry; journal; mba; non; officers; practices capital; small; use cache: ajfa-11161.pdf plain text: ajfa-11161.txt item: #32 of 392 id: ajfa-11193 author: Diaz, John Francis T; Tjokro Hindro, Martha Christianie title: Factors Affecting the ProfitabilitFactors Affecting the Profitability of Indonesian Real Estate Publicly-listed Companiesy of Indonesian Real Estate Publicly-listed Companies date: 2017 words: 12582 flesch: 47 summary: In general, the average ROA of Indonesian real estate companies is 6% with data variations of 5%. These variables are tested against return on asset (ROA) as a proxy for profitability, and the general null and alternative hypotheses are: • H0: Independent variables have no explanatory power on profitability of Indonesian real estate companies (βi = 0) • H1: Independent variables have explanatory power on profitability of Indonesian real estate companies (βi ≠ 0) keywords: accounting; companies; company; days; debt; estate; estate companies; finance; journal; model; number; profitability; ratio; real; relationship; size; study; vol cache: ajfa-11193.pdf plain text: ajfa-11193.txt item: #33 of 392 id: ajfa-11212 author: Al-Shatnawi, Hasan title: The Possibility of the Jordanian Industrial Corporations to Apply the IFRS No. 15 date: 2017 words: 8497 flesch: 44 summary: Substantial new disclosures required by revenue standard. This study showed that it is possible for the Jordanian industrial corporations to commit to the requirements for revenue recognition and the accounting measurement. keywords: accounting; accounting issn; contract; corporations; establishment; financial; ifrs; requirements; revenue; revenue recognition; standard; study cache: ajfa-11212.pdf plain text: ajfa-11212.txt item: #34 of 392 id: ajfa-11249 author: Nada, M. S.; Mohammed, Rehab Emad El-Din title: The Determinants of Foreign Exchange Exposure of EGX30 Companies "An Empirical Study" date: 2017 words: 5382 flesch: 59 summary: Therefore, the study divides the companies into two categories with respect to their exposure to FX risk; positive exposure companies and negative exposure companies. Table (I), in the Appendix, Panel Apresents the mean and standard deviation of the FXE for EGX30companies, Panel Bis for positive exposure companies and Panel Cis fornegative exposure companies. keywords: asset; companies; exchange; exposure; firm; fxe; panel; rate; ratio; study cache: ajfa-11249.pdf plain text: ajfa-11249.txt item: #35 of 392 id: ajfa-11407 author: Zakari, Murtala title: International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) Adoption and Its Impact on Financial Reporting: Evidence from Listed Nigeria Oil and Gas Companies date: 2020 words: 4586 flesch: 44 summary: To achieve this, data were collected from financial statements prepared using IFRS for the periods 2012-2016, and financial statements prepared using Nigeria GAAP for the periods 2007-2011, i.e. pre and post IFRS adoption in Nigeria for a period of 5years each. The major contribution of this study is demonstrating the benefits of IFRS adoption using key financial ratios for the accounts prepared with Nigeria GAAP and IFRS, what would be interesting is the variability in the ratios. keywords: accounting; adoption; companies; gaap; ifrs; journal; nigeria; reporting; research; standards cache: ajfa-11407.pdf plain text: ajfa-11407.txt item: #36 of 392 id: ajfa-1143 author: James, Paul title: Customer Service Impacts on Bank Policy in Bangkok, Thailand date: 2012 words: 9339 flesch: 53 summary: 3. Methodology To gain a broader, deeper and more involved understanding of the issues generated within the Thai service-banking context and to consider more implicitly the issues and questions raised, this empirical groundwork utilised an interpretive approach (Walsh, White, and Young, 2008) to understand the perceptions of bank customers. It is, therefore, of importance for banks to explore the reasons for bank customers in Thailand in order to ensure that customer views are taken into consideration (Azvine and Nikravesh, 2002) when developing new bank products, changing the banking system through responses to competitive forces and highlighting the increasing importance of the understanding changing consumer behaviour and attitudes (Byers and Lederer, 2001) in Thailand’s financial industries. keywords: accounting; asian; bank; banking; customer; customer service; journal; management; marketing; process; product; quality; research; service; service quality; staff; vol cache: ajfa-1143.pdf plain text: ajfa-1143.txt item: #37 of 392 id: ajfa-11456 author: Subramaniam, Srividya; Sharma, Gagan; Sehgal, Srishti title: Profitability of Style based Investment Strategies: Evidence from India date: 2017 words: 10937 flesch: 65 summary: However, the inadequacy of beta in explaining stock returns paved the way for the development of multifactor asset pricing models most popular of which are Fama and French (1993), Carhart (1997), Fama and French (2015). Profitability Research on mature markets documents a positive relationship between profitability and stock returns (Haugen & Baker, 1996; Cohen, Gompers & Vuolteenaho, 2002; Fama& French, 2008;Artmann, Fintner & Kempf, 2011; Fitzpatrick & Ogden, 2009; Novy Marx, 2013).However, it is found that more profitable firms have lower returns for the Indian market (Sehgal &Subramaniam, 2012; Singh & Yadav, 2015). keywords: bivariate; factor; fama; finance; investment; journal; market; momentum; returns; size; stat; stat adj; stock; strategies; α t cache: ajfa-11456.pdf plain text: ajfa-11456.txt item: #38 of 392 id: ajfa-11492 author: Kumari, Pooja; Mishra, Chandra Sekhar title: A Literature Review on Ohlson (1995) date: 2017 words: 7819 flesch: 51 summary: O’95 determined the market value of thefirm in association with accounting values. Whereas, Know (2001) considered asymmetrically informed investors and found that accounting values are associated with market values. keywords: accounting; accounting research; earnings; finance; information; journal; model; ohlson; o’95; research; review; studies; valuation; value cache: ajfa-11492.pdf plain text: ajfa-11492.txt item: #39 of 392 id: ajfa-11537 author: Che Yahya, Norliza; Mohd Rashid, Ahmad Husni; A. Rahman, Ibrahim; Mohd Rashid, Siti Norbaya title: The Impact of “Offer for Sale” by Existing Shareholders in an IPO on Initial Aftermarket Performance date: 2017 words: 6178 flesch: 58 summary: The results of the cross-sectional multiple regression show that the lock-up period is significantly positive in explaining IPO initial returns, but the lock-up ratio is not. The two figures indicate that collectively, all explanatory variables tested in this study are able to explain at least the 24.88 percent and 15.45 percent of the variations in IPO initial returns (offer to open price) and IPO initial return (offer to close price), accordingly. keywords: finance; investors; ipo; ipos; journal; lock; market; offer; price; return; sale; shares; study cache: ajfa-11537.pdf plain text: ajfa-11537.txt item: #40 of 392 id: ajfa-11578 author: Draz, Muhammad Umar; Ahmad, Fayyaz title: Accounting Reforms and Foreign Portfolio Investment in China: An Empirical Investigation date: 2017 words: 4325 flesch: 48 summary: The data of accounting reforms introduced by the international accounting bodies has been obtained from the official website of IASB; while the data of Chinese accounting reforms has been taken from literature on Chinese accounting history and the accounting standards issued and revised by the Ministry of Finance, China. FPI is used as dependent variable; while Chinese accounting reforms, annual increase in listed companies of China, China’s GDP growth and financial crises are used as explanatory variables. keywords: accounting; china; companies; fpi; investment; level; reforms; relationship; variables cache: ajfa-11578.pdf plain text: ajfa-11578.txt item: #41 of 392 id: ajfa-11636 author: Nguyen, Ngan Bich title: The Price Discovery Mechanism between Sovereign Bond and Sovereign CDS Market: Studies in Selected Countries date: 2017 words: 6923 flesch: 58 summary: The paper, in one hand, is in the same idea with this work in term of the unreplacable role of sovereign CDS markets though on the other hand casts the doubt on if CDS market forces the bond market’ spreads to bound or not. https://doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v9i2.11636 Abstract This paper employs the multivariate VAR model to examine the mechanic work of price discovery process between sovereign CDS market and the associated sovereign bond market in contexts of five European and Asian countries, including Vietnam, Korea, Portugal, Italy and France from the beginning of 2008 to the end of April, 2017. keywords: bond; bond market; cds; cds market; credit; discovery; market; paper; price; results; run; sovereign; test cache: ajfa-11636.pdf plain text: ajfa-11636.txt item: #42 of 392 id: ajfa-11736 author: Dey, Pappu Kumar; Nakib, Mohammad; Dutta, Probal title: Climate Change Disclosures in the Annual Reports: Evidence from Bangladesh date: 2017 words: 5292 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords: Climate change, climate change disclosures, annual reports, content analysis, Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 90 1. Introduction Climate change has been a burning issue as its drastic impacts are being apprehended and its dreadful effects are appearing and intensifying day by day. https://doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v9i2.11736 Abstract This study examines the nature and extent of climate change disclosures in the corporate annual reports of the listed companies in Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh. keywords: accounting; bangladesh; change; climate; climate change; companies; disclosures; issues; journal; ltd; reports; sample cache: ajfa-11736.pdf plain text: ajfa-11736.txt item: #43 of 392 id: ajfa-11752 author: Alquhaif, Abdulsalam Saad; Latif, Rohaida Abdul; Chandren, Sitraselvi title: Women in Board of Directors and Real Earnings Management: Accretive Share Buyback in Malaysia date: 2017 words: 4329 flesch: 52 summary: Regarding earnings management, previous studies of Gavious, Segev and Yosef (2012), Peni and Vähämaa (2010) and Krishnan and Parsons (2008), provide evidence that firms with a higher number of women on the board are less likely to manipulate earnings. The development hypothesis of women directors and earnings management are set out in Section 2. keywords: accounting; board; buyback; directors; earnings; firms; gender; journal; management; share; women cache: ajfa-11752.pdf plain text: ajfa-11752.txt item: #44 of 392 id: ajfa-11761 author: Yapa Abeywardhana, Dilriukshi; Magoro, Katlego title: Debt Capital and Financial Performance: A Comparative Analysis of South African and Sri Lankan Listed Companies date: 2017 words: 10927 flesch: 52 summary: The relationship between debt capital and firm performance as well as the impact thereof was tested by the following regression models: , = + , + , + , + , + , , = + , + , + , + , + , Where: , = short term debt to total assets for firm i in year t; , = long term debt to total assets for firm i in year t; , Objective of this study is to examine whether debt capital affects the financial performance of the wholesale and retail sector companies in South Africa and Sri Lanka. keywords: capital; companies; debt; debt capital; finance; firm; impact; journal; performance; results; structure; study; term debt cache: ajfa-11761.pdf plain text: ajfa-11761.txt item: #45 of 392 id: ajfa-11778 author: Modugu, Kennedy Prince title: Firm Performance and Corporate Disclosure Level of Listed Companies in Nigeria date: 2017 words: 6735 flesch: 44 summary: The combined effect of profitability and liquidity showed no significant relationship with the three components of disclosure total disclosure. Cerf's approach, with extensions and modifications, has been used widely in many other studies (for example, Wallace, 1988; Lang & Lundholm, 1993; Alsaeed, 2006; Umoren, 2009; Al-Zarouni, 2008; Qu, 2011; Ibrahim, 2014) to examine the adequacy of corporate financial disclosure in different countries. keywords: accounting; companies; disclosure; finance; financial; firm; information; journal; level; naser; performance; reporting; reports; wallace cache: ajfa-11778.pdf plain text: ajfa-11778.txt item: #46 of 392 id: ajfa-11810 author: Cummings, J Reid; Ramirez, Gabriel G; Sharma, Divesh S; Lahtinen, Kyre D title: Motivating Capital Investment by Using the Audit Process to Increase Financial Transparency date: 2018 words: 11969 flesch: 56 summary: Three audit process attributes investors use to evaluate a firm’s financial transparency are hiring high quality auditors (costs associated with higher audit fees), audit industry specialists (costs associated with industry audit specialization), and audit firms with superior reputations (costs associated with Big 4 audit firm status) Choosing to specialize in a particular industry is not a decision that audit firms take lightly, as doing so requires committing substantial amounts of time and money to train audit personnel on the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 85 workings of a particular industry (Lim & Tan, 2010). keywords: accounting; assets; audit; audit fees; auditor; capital; crisis; debt; equity; fees; finance; firm; information; investment; journal; model; quality; reits; transparency cache: ajfa-11810.pdf plain text: ajfa-11810.txt item: #47 of 392 id: ajfa-11832 author: Balagobei, Saseela title: Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Market Returns in Sri Lanka date: 2017 words: 4989 flesch: 49 summary: Dependent variable of this study is stock market return measured by All Share Price Index (ASPI) and All Share Total Return Index (ASTRI) and independent variables are macroeconomic variables, such as Interest Rate (IR), Inflation Rate (INF), Exchange Rate (ER), Factory Industry Production Index (FIPI) and money supply (MS). Interest rate and factory industry production have negative influence on stock market return in Colombo Stock exchange while inflation rate and exchange rate have positive influence on stock market return. keywords: exchange; inflation; interest; market; rate; returns; stock; stock market; variables cache: ajfa-11832.pdf plain text: ajfa-11832.txt item: #48 of 392 id: ajfa-11930 author: LIO, SAN; MIRICHII, JOHN title: Towards Enhanced Tax Compliance in Kenya date: 2018 words: 4733 flesch: 55 summary: Since factually every coin earned in Kenya is subject to income tax, and with the tax rate averaging approximately thirty percent, the loss in income tax revenue in Kenya could be estimated at Kenya Shillings seven hundred billion a year. The research findings lead to a conclusion that multiple rates of income tax, varied dates of making tax returns and a bulky legal tax framework make income tax compliance unforeseeable in Kenya. keywords: accounting; finance; income; income tax; kenya; percent; rates; respondents; revenue; tax; vol cache: ajfa-11930.pdf plain text: ajfa-11930.txt item: #49 of 392 id: ajfa-11937 author: Ng, Shir Li; Taylor, Dennis W title: Resourcing the Internal Audit Function: How Effective is the Audit Committee? date: 2017 words: 11357 flesch: 51 summary: Results reveal that AC size is significantly positively related to the financial resources (budget) allocated to IAF, while both AC financial expertise and AC size are significantly positively related to IAF labour hours. Dalton et al (1998) also find a positive association between AC size and the monitoring function of the board. keywords: accounting; audit; budget; committee; company; governance; hours; iaf; journal; members; size; study; total cache: ajfa-11937.pdf plain text: ajfa-11937.txt item: #50 of 392 id: ajfa-11942 author: Fathi, Sara; ElBannan, Mona A. title: Does Ownership Structure Matter for Bank Performance in the MENA Region? An Empirical Evidence date: 2017 words: 11882 flesch: 51 summary: Bank ownership and credit over the business cycle: Is lending by state banks less procyclical? Bank ownership and performance. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; bank; bank performance; concentration; customer; effect; factor; finance; financial; growth; internal; issn; journal; model; ownership; ownership concentration; performance; perspective; result; vol cache: ajfa-11942.pdf plain text: ajfa-11942.txt item: #51 of 392 id: ajfa-11962 author: Goh, Boon Leng Mark; Talib, Ameen Ali title: A Singaporean Study on Macroeconomic Variables Impacting Stock Returns date: 2017 words: 7088 flesch: 51 summary: 5.2 Impulse Responses Impulse Responses using Cholesky (d.o.f. adjusted) was examined to determine the impact of the variables on the STI: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 229 5.2.1 Impact of S$NEER on STI -100 0 100 200 2 4 6 8 10 Response of D(STI) to D(S$NEER) STI was found to respond negatively short-term to S$NEER, with a drop to -55% over 2 periods before values recover to 0%. 5.2.5 Impact of Crude Oil Prices on STI -100 0 100 200 2 4 6 8 10 Response of D(STI) to D(OIL) Crude Oil price was found to have a short-term positive impact the STI, with STI levels initially rising to a high of 67% initially, before dropping to a low of -32% in the 4th period, and eventually recovering to 0%. keywords: accounting; impact; issn; model; oil; prices; returns; singapore; sti; stock; stock returns; trade; variables cache: ajfa-11962.pdf plain text: ajfa-11962.txt item: #52 of 392 id: ajfa-12032 author: Gunaratne, Yathra Mullage Chithrasheeli title: Is EVA an Effective Performance Measure; Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka date: 2017 words: 6184 flesch: 56 summary: Contrary to the arguments of EVA proponents, the researcher suggests the market participants of Colombo Stock Exchange to select other performance measures instead of EVA to make rational economic decisions. Later some other scholars and practitioners have empirically supported the argument of EVA proponents and many corporations have adopted EVA as a technique used in firm performance measurement and portfolio selections decisions (Teitelbaum,1997) considering that the EVA as one of the best techniques that measures the true economic profit of a firm (Swaroop and Chandra, 2009). keywords: accounting; companies; data; eva; finance; journal; performance; relationship; return; sri; stock; study; value cache: ajfa-12032.pdf plain text: ajfa-12032.txt item: #53 of 392 id: ajfa-12076 author: AlAli, Shireen Mahmoud title: The Impact of Capital Structure on the Financial Performance of the Jordanian Industrial Companies Listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for the Period 2012-2015 date: 2018 words: 6584 flesch: 51 summary: the paper of (Goyal, 2013) seeks to study the impact of capital structure on profitability of public sector banks in India listed on national stock exchange during 2008 to 2012 methodology-Regression Analysis has been used for establishing relationship between Return on Equity, Return on Assets & EPS with capital structure Results. The following metrics for capital structure ratios will be used in this study: 1- Total Liability to Total Assets Ratio (LAR). keywords: assets; capital structure; companies; equity; performance; ratio; return; study; total cache: ajfa-12076.pdf plain text: ajfa-12076.txt item: #54 of 392 id: ajfa-121 author: Yuen, Chun Yip Desmondy; Steven, Zhang Xu; Morris, Liu Ming; Lu, Vanessa Chan title: A Case Study of Voluntary Disclosure by Chinese Enterprises date: 2010 words: 11316 flesch: 44 summary: Ownership structure and corporate voluntary disclosure in Hong Kong and Singapore. Voluntary corporate disclosure by Swedish companies. keywords: accounting; audit; board; china; chinese; committee; companies; company; directors; disclosure; finance; governance; information; journal; market; ownership; shares; structure; study; vol cache: ajfa-121.pdf plain text: ajfa-121.txt item: #55 of 392 id: ajfa-12152 author: Al-shamahi, Mohammed Gubran; Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain; Al-arussi, Ali Saleh title: The Impact of Effective Corporate Boards and Audit Committees on Attracting Foreign Ownership in Listed Companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council date: 2017 words: 5618 flesch: 45 summary: In the context of a previous study on foreign ownership, Bokpin and Isshaq (2009) and Bokpinet al. (2015) studied the effect of transparency and corporate governance on foreign share ownership, and found that decisions of foreign investors are based on corporate governance and disclosure norms of listed firms. Previous studies on foreign ownership such as Bowman & Min, (2012), Mangena&Tauringana (2007),Miletkovet al.(2014) andMin & Bowman(2015) examined the relationship of foreign ownership and corporate governance mechanisms, the results indicate that foreign investors are more attracted to high independence of the board of directors as well as the audit committee. keywords: accounting; audit; audit committee; board; committee; countries; directors; effectiveness; foreign; governance; investors; journal; ownership cache: ajfa-12152.pdf plain text: ajfa-12152.txt item: #56 of 392 id: ajfa-12199 author: Dash, Mihir; Muthyala, Arpana title: Cost Efficiency of Indian Life Insurance Service Providers using Data Envelopment Analysis date: 2018 words: 6172 flesch: 53 summary: The Indian life insurance industry grew at 22.55% new business premium in 2015-16, due to the high growth in the group single premium policy, with private insurers growing at 17.63% and Life Insurance Corporation of India registering a higher growth at 24.74%.The industry is expected to grow at15% for the next five years. Much of the literature on insurance efficiency is for developed countries, particularly for the US insurance industry (Gardner and Grace, 1993; Yuengert, 1993; Cummins et al, 1999; Greene and Segal, 2004). keywords: companies; efficiency; insurance companies; life; life insurance; market; period; premium cache: ajfa-12199.pdf plain text: ajfa-12199.txt item: #57 of 392 id: ajfa-12229 author: Kengatharan, Lingesiya; Clamenthu, Pirashanth Diluxan title: Use of Capital Investment Appraisal Practices and Effectiveness of Investment Decisions: A Study on Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka date: 2017 words: 7533 flesch: 47 summary: Thus, Elumilade, Asaolu and Ologunde, (2006) explained that capital investment decision is one of the fundamental requirements; it should be properly applied to make trade-offs between expected return and riskiness that route to the effective firm performance which accelerate the economic development of a country. Many Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 289 changes involve capital investment decisions, which can invariably involve large sums of money over the long period. keywords: accounting; analysis; appraisal; budgeting; capital; companies; decision; effectiveness; finance; investment; practices; study; techniques cache: ajfa-12229.pdf plain text: ajfa-12229.txt item: #58 of 392 id: ajfa-12234 author: Ahn, Seoungpil title: Spinoffs and Firm Policy date: 2017 words: 3541 flesch: 66 summary: In addition, spinoff firms shall have financial data for both parent and spinoff units on Compustat for at least two years around the spinoff and stock return data on CRSP around the spinoff announcement date. Finally, I require that both parent and spinoff units have proxy statements filed in Lexis-Lexus for two years around the spinoff. keywords: board; ownership; parents; size; spinoff; structure; units cache: ajfa-12234.pdf plain text: ajfa-12234.txt item: #59 of 392 id: ajfa-12237 author: Quintiliani, Andrea title: SME Growth: The Role of Government Grant date: 2017 words: 4304 flesch: 52 summary: The empirical evidence from January 2003 to December 2014 indicates a strong relationship between Government grant, strategy diversification and growth of enterprise value. Even if this formula regards the stock market, it can also be used to calculate enterprise value of unlisted companies by making some adjustments. keywords: capital; diversification; enterprise; eva; journal; period; return; value cache: ajfa-12237.pdf plain text: ajfa-12237.txt item: #60 of 392 id: ajfa-12252 author: Alrafaya, Ahmad Abdalla title: Effect of Liberalization of Amman Stock Market on the Prices Fluctuation for the Period (1994-2015) date: 2018 words: 9343 flesch: 34 summary: Thus, the essentiality of financial market liberalization is to liberalize the capital account by restrictions and controls removal on capital movements of short periods across national borders, giving the market an absolute effectiveness in the processes of guaranteeing, distributing and allocating financial resources, determining the prices of financial processes depending on supply and demand, cancellation of governmental financial control and giving banks and financial institutions complete independence, and not to impose any restrictions on the free entry and exit of the financial services industry. Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 1 286 ajfa.macrothink.org When conducting data analysis process to know the effect of financial market liberalization on the market’s fluctuations through stocks' return, there is a need for answering the following questions: 1. keywords: capital; effect; fluctuations; information; journal; liberalization; market fluctuations; market liberalization; markets; period; prices; returns; stock market; study cache: ajfa-12252.pdf plain text: ajfa-12252.txt item: #61 of 392 id: ajfa-12270 author: Alzoubi, Naser Yousef title: The Extent Use of Contemporary Management Accounting Practices and Its Effect on Operational Performance of Industrial Corporations in Jordan date: 2018 words: 8466 flesch: 39 summary: Study Hypotheses Based on the above presentation, and in order to answer the main question of the study What is the effect of using different contemporary MAPs on operational performance of Jordanian industrial corporations The null hypothesis summarized as follows: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 375 H01: There is no statistically significant effect of applied contemporary MAPs on the rate of Total Assets turnover in the Jordanian industrial corporations. Measuring the degree of application contemporary MAPs in Jordanian industrial corporations listed on Amman Stock Exchange. keywords: accounting; agreement; contemporary; corporations; costing; degree; management; maps; means; medium; performance; product; study cache: ajfa-12270.pdf plain text: ajfa-12270.txt item: #62 of 392 id: ajfa-12290 author: Balagobei, Saseela title: Audit Committee and Value Relevance of Accounting Information of Listed Hotels and Travels in Sri Lanka date: 2018 words: 4478 flesch: 45 summary: According to the table 04, coefficient of determination for audit committee variables (R2) is 0.228922 which denotes that 22.89% of the observed variability in EPS can be explained by the differences in the variables such as audit committee size, audit committee independence, audit committee experts, audit committee meetings and firm size. According to the table 05, coefficient of determination for audit committee variables (R2) is 0.747190 which denotes that 74.71 % of the observed variability in BVPS can be explained by the differences in the variables such as audit committee size, audit committee independence, audit committee experts, audit committee meeting and firm size. keywords: accounting; audit; audit committee; bvps; committee; information; relevance; size; sri; value cache: ajfa-12290.pdf plain text: ajfa-12290.txt item: #63 of 392 id: ajfa-12382 author: Ratnam, Vijayakumaran; Vijayakumaran, Sunitha title: Institutional reforms and development of corporate governance and banking system in China date: 2017 words: 7843 flesch: 49 summary: https://doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v9i2.12382 Abstract The aim of this paper is to review China‟s institutional reforms and consequent development of Chinese corporate governance system and financial system. For example, Dixon et al. (2015) show that share ownership by managers in private Chinese firms increases their incentive to involve in risk taking activities such as international expansion. keywords: banks; china; china‟s; chinese; companies; finance; firms; governance; government; journal; market; ownership; shares; state; system cache: ajfa-12382.pdf plain text: ajfa-12382.txt item: #64 of 392 id: ajfa-12388 author: Liu, Li-Lun; Huang, Yu-Ting title: The Influence of CSRSCPAs and the Quality of Financial Statements date: 2018 words: 332 flesch: -5 summary: CrossRef Directory of Research Journals Indexing DTU FindIt (DTU Library) EconBiz Electronic Journals Library EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) Google Scholar HOLLIS (Harvard Library) ICI World of Journals Index Copernicus PKP Open Archives Harvester Publons RePEc Scilit SHERPA/RoMEO The Standard Periodical Directory Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X Email: ajfa@macrothink.org Search | Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting Current Archives For Authors Submissions Author Guidelines Pay Article Processing Charge Ethical Guidelines For Reviewers Editorial Team Recruitment Reviewers Publication Policies Announcements About About the Journal Privacy Statement Contact Search Search Register Login Home / Search Search Search articles for Advanced filters Published After 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Published Before 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 By Author Search No Results Make a Submission ISSN: 1946-052X Started: 2009 Frequency: Semiannual Author Guidelines Publication Policies Pay Article Processing Charge Editorial Team Recruitment Reviewers Ethical Guidelines The journal is included and abstracted in:  BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) keywords: journal; search cache: ajfa-12388.htm plain text: ajfa-12388.txt item: #65 of 392 id: ajfa-1243 author: Hewa Wellalage, Nirosha; Locke, Stuart; Scrimgeour, Frank title: The Global Financial Crisis Impact on Ethnic Diversity of Sri Lanka Boards date: 2012 words: 6614 flesch: 55 summary: In the first step, board ethnic minority is determined by using OLS regression techniques and in the second step, values determined for ethnic minority are used to determine agency costs. Though there have been studies of ethnic diversity on top management (Marimuthu, 2008; Roberson & Park, 2007) and its effect on firm financial performance, this is the first study to especially concern itself with board ethnic diversity during a global financial crisis period. keywords: agency; asian; board; costs; crisis; directors; diversity; finance; firm; journal; lankan; minority; sri; study cache: ajfa-1243.pdf plain text: ajfa-1243.txt item: #66 of 392 id: ajfa-12449 author: Arachchi, A.N. Hingurala; Perera, Wasantha; Vijayakumaran, Ratnam title: The Impact of Working Capital Management on Firm Value: Evidence from a Frontier Market date: 2018 words: 5851 flesch: 50 summary: Her results show that improvements in working capital efficiency through reduction in working capital investments leads to higher firm value and this relationship is more pronounced in the financially constrained firms suggesting that firm value significantly increases by efficient management of working capital in financially constrained firms. Keywords: Working capital management, firm value, Tobin Q, cash conversion cycle, panel data, Sri Lanka. keywords: accounts; capital; days; finance; firm; journal; management; market; value; wcm; working cache: ajfa-12449.pdf plain text: ajfa-12449.txt item: #67 of 392 id: ajfa-12492 author: Wanjau, Boniface Muriithi; Muturi, Willy Mwangi; Ngumi, Patrick title: Influence of Corporate Transparency Disclosures on Financial Performance of Listed Companies in East Africa date: 2018 words: 5716 flesch: 45 summary: A similar study by Ozbay (2009) was conducted to examine the relationship between corporate financial transparency and company performance in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) in Turkey. Specifically, the study sought to: i. To examine the influence of financial transparency on financial performance in companies listed in East Africa. ii. keywords: accounting; africa; companies; disclosure; east; finance; governance; journal; performance; relationship; risk; study; transparency cache: ajfa-12492.pdf plain text: ajfa-12492.txt item: #68 of 392 id: ajfa-12592 author: Hang, Ta Thi Thuy; Ngoc, Bui Thi title: Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure on Financial Performance date: 2018 words: 6810 flesch: 35 summary: Corporate social responsibility disclosure plays an important role in implementation of corporate social responsibility, promotion of business’s image and creation of good impression to stakeholders. The practice and disclosure of corporate social responsibility information is considered a tool for businesses to communicate the activities of sustainable development of society. keywords: 052x; accounting; authors; disclosure; enterprises; finance; information; issn; journal; model; performance; responsibility; responsibility disclosure; variables; vietnam; vol cache: ajfa-12592.pdf plain text: ajfa-12592.txt item: #69 of 392 id: ajfa-12606 author: El-Dalahmeh, Suleiman title: Extent of Implementing Target Costing and Value Engineering Approach to Reducing Costs: A Survey in Jordanian Shareholding Companies for Food Industries date: 2018 words: 5550 flesch: 49 summary: The results of the survey revealed that availability of the components of application of target cost, as well as companies have awareness, concepts, principles and the importance of applying target costs to managing costs so as to improve profitability, and the companies are using value engineering to achieve a cost to reach the target costs. Keywords: Target costs, value engineering, management accounting, the Jordanian shareholding companies for food industries. keywords: companies; costs; food; food industries; shareholding companies; study; target cost; value; value engineering cache: ajfa-12606.pdf plain text: ajfa-12606.txt item: #70 of 392 id: ajfa-12655 author: Huynh, Quang Linh title: Insight into the Links among External Business Environments, Corporate Governance and Organisational Performance date: 2018 words: 6209 flesch: 36 summary: A thorough review of the literature on corporate governance, external business environments and organisational performance comes to the proposed hypotheses. The research provides empirical evidence that organisational performance is the consequence of both corporate governance and external business environments that is, in turn, the causality of corporate governance. keywords: accounting; asian; business; business environments; environments; external; finance; governance; journal; management; performance; research; theory; uncertainty cache: ajfa-12655.pdf plain text: ajfa-12655.txt item: #71 of 392 id: ajfa-12658 author: Zhang, Junru; Djajadikerta, Hadrian Geri; Trireksani, Terri title: Determinants of Corporate Environmental and Social Disclosures in China: A Comparative Study within High-profile Industries date: 2018 words: 12143 flesch: 38 summary: [Research on the factors influencing corporate social disclosure]. Corporate social disclosure and determinates analysis in listed companies in China. keywords: accounting; chemical; china; chinese; companies; company; disclosure; environmental; extent; industries; industry; information; journal; legitimacy; mining; reports; responsibility; study; utility cache: ajfa-12658.pdf plain text: ajfa-12658.txt item: #72 of 392 id: ajfa-12736 author: Mugableh, Mohamed Ibrahim; Oudat, Mohammad Salem title: Economic Growth and Financial Development Nexus in Malaysia: Dynamic Simultaneous Equations Models date: 2018 words: 6704 flesch: 53 summary: These policies have been concentrated on stimulating economic growth and achieving the 2020 vision. A 1% increases in energy consumption and gross fixed capital formation add in economic growth by 0.98 and 14.2, respectively. keywords: causality; development; economic; energy; finance; financial; gdp; growth; journal; results; run; variables;   cache: ajfa-12736.pdf plain text: ajfa-12736.txt item: #73 of 392 id: ajfa-12768 author: Shabani, Nor Afifah; Sofian, Saudah title: Earnings Smoothing as Information Signaling or Garbling: A Review of Literature date: 2018 words: 4670 flesch: 48 summary: Based on the view that earnings smoothing is used to garble information by managers, Khurana et al. (2017) find positive association between real earnings smoothing and firm-specific stock price crash risk. Until recently, scholars have been trying to prove the existence of earnings smoothing activities (Beidleman, 1973; Boterenbrood, 2014; Khalil & Simon, 2014), figuring how (Atik, 2009; Francis et al., 2016) and when (Gassen et al., 2006; Gill de Albornoz & Alcarria, 2003) managers smooth earnings, characterizing earnings smoothing firms (Bigus et al., 2016; Bouwman, 2014; Z. Huang & Xue, 2016; Safdar & Yan, 2016; Silhan, 2014), and most importantly understanding the motivation (Goel & Thakor, 2003; Lambert, 1984; Trueman & Titman, 1988) and consequences (Houcine, 2017; Shubita, 2015; Tucker & Zarowin, 2006) of such behavior. keywords: accounting; earnings; earnings smoothing; finance; firm; information; journal; managers; role; smoothing cache: ajfa-12768.pdf plain text: ajfa-12768.txt item: #74 of 392 id: ajfa-12804 author: Sarker, Niluthpaul; Nahar, Shamsun title: Risk Reporting of the Banking Sector of Bangladesh: A Time Horizon Analysis date: 2018 words: 11203 flesch: 60 summary: Therefore, bank risks based on types that are disclosed and quantifiable are primarily focused on four distinct types of risk (Hitchins et al., 2001). 2.1 Credit risk Credit risk is very important and significant ramification of bank risk (Lin, 2009; Bonfim 2009, Angelini et al., 2008; Richared, 2008; Al-Tamimi and Al-Mazrooei, 2007). keywords: 052x; accounting; banking; banks; commercial; credit risk; disclosure; finance; group; journal; liquidity risk; market risk; rate risk; risk; risk share; share; vol; year cache: ajfa-12804.pdf plain text: ajfa-12804.txt item: #75 of 392 id: ajfa-1289 author: Suttipun, Muttanachai title: Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Annual Reports: A Case Study of Companies Listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) date: 2012 words: 9436 flesch: 38 summary: Kunsirikun et al. (2004) investigated corporate environmental disclosures in the annual reports of 63 Thai firms in 1993 and 84 firms in 1999, finding a slight increase in narrative disclosures from 44% to 45%. Ratanajongkol et al. (2006) examined trends in corporate environmental disclosure by utilising content analysis of the disclosure of the 40 largest Thai firms in 1997, 1999, and 2001. keywords: accounting; asian; business; companies; countries; disclosure; environmental; information; journal; relationship; reporting; reports; score; social; study; tbl; tbl reporting cache: ajfa-1289.pdf plain text: ajfa-1289.txt item: #76 of 392 id: ajfa-12904 author: Shabani, Nor Afifah; Sofian, Saudah title: Earnings Smoothing and Bankruptcy Risk in Liquidating Private Firms date: 2018 words: 6096 flesch: 58 summary: Saudah Sofian Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty of Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81110 Johor, Malaysia E-mail: saudah@utm.my Received: March 18, 2018 Accepted: April 10, 2018 Published: June 1, 2018 doi:10.5296/ajfa.v10i1.12904 URL: https://doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v10i1.12904 Abstract Keywords: earnings Smooth earnings are preferred by managers and creditors because they represent a stable business operations as well as low loan default risks and thus creditors reward firms which have smooth earnings with better loan covenant terms and lower interest rates. In contrast with the view of creditors that smooth earnings signals business’ viability (e.g. Tucker & Zarowin 2006; Amiram & Owens 2017; Dou et al. 2013), recent literature finds that earnings smoothing is associated with stock price crash risk. keywords: accounting; bankruptcy; creditors; earnings; earnings smoothing; finance; firms; income; journal; risk; smoothing; years cache: ajfa-12904.pdf plain text: ajfa-12904.txt item: #77 of 392 id: ajfa-12933 author: Saha, Netai Kumar; Moutushi, Rehnuma Hoque; Salauddin, Mohammad title: Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: The Role of the Board and Audit Committee date: 2018 words: 5582 flesch: 45 summary: The takeover market, corporate board composition, and ownership structure: The case of banking. Cornett et al., (2009) puts another counter-argument that indeed if the size of the boards is large those are positively associated with corporate performance. keywords: audit; board; committee; directors; firm; governance; independence; journal; performance; size cache: ajfa-12933.pdf plain text: ajfa-12933.txt item: #78 of 392 id: ajfa-13029 author: Assakaf, Ebrahim Ahmed; Samsudin, Rose Shamsiah; Othman, Zaleha title: Public Sector Auditing and Corruption: A Literature Review date: 2018 words: 6664 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: corruption effects, corruption, public sector auditing, SAI Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 227 Introduction The increasing attention of the media over the last two decades to corruption suggests that developing countries in particular are at a fragile stage. That study did not explain the mechanisms that are used by SAI to detect and prevent corruption or how SAIs reducing public sector corruption. keywords: accounting; auditing; corruption; finance; government; journal; public; role; sector; sector auditing cache: ajfa-13029.pdf plain text: ajfa-13029.txt item: #79 of 392 id: ajfa-13039 author: Lai, Yung-Yu; Chiu, AnAn title: Factors Affecting Learning Performance of Accounting Information System date: 2018 words: 6899 flesch: 43 summary: This is simply because the attitude that these students may have while using information technology is a vital aspect of their use of technology (Huffman et al., 2013).From the above discussion, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the learning attitude and the major in which these students enrolled will affect their learning performance of Accounting information systems. Accounting information system not only provides added value to improve the product quality and reduce the cost but also offer in-time and relevant information. keywords: accounting; accounting information; contest; information; knowledge; learning; performance; public; students; system; technology cache: ajfa-13039.pdf plain text: ajfa-13039.txt item: #80 of 392 id: ajfa-13065 author: Vijayakumaran, Sunitha; Vijayakumaran, Ratnam title: The Determinants of Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies date: 2018 words: 7556 flesch: 52 summary: Back to the beginning: persistence and the cross‐section of corporate capital structure. Previous empirical studies from developed countries (Titman and Wessels, 1988; Berger et al., 1997; Brailsfore et al., 2002; Florackis and Ozken, 2009), from developing economics (Wiwattanakantang, 1999; Booth et al., 2001; Pandey, 2001; Deesomsak et al., 2004), as well as in the context of Chinese firms (Chen and Strange, 2005; Zou and Xiao 2006; Haung and Song, 2006; Qian et al., 2009) all uniformly find that leverage is positively related to firm size. keywords: capital; capital structure; chinese; debt; determinants; finance; firms; journal; leverage; relationship; structure; theory; vol cache: ajfa-13065.pdf plain text: ajfa-13065.txt item: #81 of 392 id: ajfa-13106 author: Al-raeai, Arafat Mansoor; Zainol, Zairy; Abdul Rahim, Ahmad Khilmy title: The Role of Political Risk and Financial Development Factors on Sukuk Market Development of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries date: 2018 words: 5960 flesch: 48 summary: On the contrary, the growing importance of Sukuk markets around the world has recently opened a new avenue of research into the challenges and factors which the development of Sukuk market is facing. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model/framework for investigating the role of political risk and financial market on Sukuk market development in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). keywords: banking; bond; countries; development; finance; gcc; islamic; journal; market; market development; risk; stock; sukuk cache: ajfa-13106.pdf plain text: ajfa-13106.txt item: #82 of 392 id: ajfa-13142 author: Aqeel Al-Bawab, Atef; Al-Rawashdeh, Hani Ali Aref title: The Impact of Human Capital Development Cost on the Net Income and Dividend: An Applied Study over Jordanian Islamic Banks date: 2018 words: 6186 flesch: 45 summary: Abstract The study aimed at identifying the effect of the cost of Human capital development through training employees on the net income and dividend at Jordanian Islamic banks; three banks. The study concluded several results, the most important are: There is an effect for the cost of training employees over the pre-tax annual profit development at Jordanian Islamic banks with variant proportions. keywords: banks; capital; cost; effect; employees; islamic; study; training employees cache: ajfa-13142.pdf plain text: ajfa-13142.txt item: #83 of 392 id: ajfa-13183 author: Ndekugri, Dr. Alhassan title: Corporate Restructuring and Investment date: 2018 words: 4545 flesch: 48 summary: As a result, for a company to maintain stable profit, there must be a corresponding evaluation of the company from time to time to ensure that issues that hinder company performance are addressed. 7 8 7 0 5 10 15 20 25 Current Financial statement Previous Financial statement Detailed company description Company business plan What information do you want to be provided in order an invest decision? 28 14 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 company with less than 500 employees Company with more than 500 employees Does a company size matters in your investment decision? Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 139 Figure 9. information on investment performance When people invest they may want to know a certain information regarding their investment, in this survey, 14 respondents said they want to know about the risk involved and how that will affect their money, 4 respondents said they only want know the return on investment, and 19 of the respondents said they need to know other information such as time value of money of their investment, how their wealth will be maximized, and how their investment performs from time to time Figure 10. keywords: accounting; company; decision; finance; information; investment; investors; journal; performance; research; respondents; restructuring cache: ajfa-13183.pdf plain text: ajfa-13183.txt item: #84 of 392 id: ajfa-1319 author: Skopljak, Vedran; Luo, Robin title: Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia date: 2012 words: 10513 flesch: 50 summary: Therefore the expectation according to agency theory and past literature (Berger and Bonaccorsi di Patti 2006) is that ECAP will have negative relationship with profit efficiency; that is an increase in debt yields higher profit efficiency. It shows profit efficiency in Australian banks to be averaging 78.6%; that is, on average banks profit efficiency is 78.6% relative to the performance of the most profit efficient bank. keywords: banks; capital; capital structure; debt; efficiency; finance; firm; journal; leverage; performance; profit; profit efficiency; structure cache: ajfa-1319.pdf plain text: ajfa-1319.txt item: #85 of 392 id: ajfa-13259 author: Akter, Mohsina; Siraj, Muhammad Muhiuddin title: Factors Affecting Undergraduate Students’ Intention to Become a Chartered Accountant in Bangladesh date: 2018 words: 4457 flesch: 52 summary: 2. Literature Review Several overseas studies have been undertaken to investigate factors affecting students’ career choice in accounting (Demagalhaes et al., 2011; Uyar and Kuzay, 2011; Dibabe et al., 2015; Ahmed et al. 1997, Odia and Ogiedu, 2013) and perceptions of accounting students towards accounting profession (Byrne and Willis, 2005; Samsuri et al., 2016). An empirical study of factors affecting accounting students career choice in New Zealand. keywords: accounting; bangladesh; choice; factors; public; students; study; universities cache: ajfa-13259.pdf plain text: ajfa-13259.txt item: #86 of 392 id: ajfa-13261 author: Chantachaimongkol, Nunthapin; Chen, Shuwen title: The Effects of Board Compositions and Audit Committee Characteristics on Information Disclosure Practices: A Case of Singapore date: 2018 words: 9838 flesch: 40 summary: Again, Ghazalia and Weetman (2006) also conclude that director ownership has a vital role in transforming the extent of voluntary disclosure, but government ownership is insignificant with corporate disclosure practices in Malaysia. Theoretical framework Traditionally, a variety of theories have been employed to design an appropriate framework for allocating variables attributing to corporate disclosure practices. keywords: accounting; audit; board; committee; disclosure; disclosure practices; et al; governance; information; information disclosure; journal; level; singapore cache: ajfa-13261.pdf plain text: ajfa-13261.txt item: #87 of 392 id: ajfa-13282 author: Ali, Belal; Kamardin, Hasnah title: Real Earnings Management: A Review of Literature and Future Research date: 2018 words: 6643 flesch: 47 summary: This paper reviews the recent studies on REM to provide updated and comprehensive information about this type of earnings management. These scandals have made earnings management an important issue for different users of accounting information such as scholars, investors and practitioners (Callao, Jarne, & Wroblewski, 2014). keywords: accounting; activities; aem; companies; earnings; earnings management; journal; management; managers; practices; rem; studies cache: ajfa-13282.pdf plain text: ajfa-13282.txt item: #88 of 392 id: ajfa-13286 author: Kengatharan, Lingesiya; Sivalingam, Logavathani title: Does Capital Structure Matter? The Influence of Capital Structure on Net Interest Margin: Evidence from Sri Lanka date: 2018 words: 5314 flesch: 56 summary: The Influence of Capital Structure on Net Interest Margin: Evidence from Sri Lanka Lingesiya Kengatharan Department of Financial Management, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Logavathani Sivalingam Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka E-mail: lingesiya@univ.jfn.ac.lk Received: May 14, 2018 Accepted: June 30, 2018 Published: December 1, 2018 doi:10.5296/ajfa.v10i2.13286 URL: https://doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v10i2.13286 Abstract Objectives of this study were to examine the capital structure pattern of Sri Lankan commercial banks and to investigate the influence of capital structure on net interest margin of commercial banks in Sri Lanka. Therefore, Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 2 Hausman Specification test was performed to find out whether fixed or random effect model is suitable to examine the relationship between capital structure and NIM. keywords: banks; capital; capital structure; debt; effect; performance; structure; study; term cache: ajfa-13286.pdf plain text: ajfa-13286.txt item: #89 of 392 id: ajfa-13599 author: Ghosh, Sutap Kumar; Ghosh, Protap Kumar; Chowdhury, Sabrin title: Essential of Central Bank’s Regulatory Policy to Strengthen Green Banking Practice and Reporting in a Country date: 2018 words: 6317 flesch: 54 summary: Present scenario of Green Banking practices and central bank Green Banking policies in Indian sub-continent (India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) are disclosed first and then how central bank regulatory Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 134 policies can create a competitive advantage to accelerate Green Banking practice in a country are disclosed. Abstract This paper has been designed to investigate the current scenarios of Green Banking practices in Indian sub-continent and to disclose how central bank’s direct regulatory policy strengthens mandatory Green Banking practice and reporting in a country. keywords: activities; bangladesh; banking; banking practices; banks; business; finance; green; india; journal; management; pakistan; practices; sector cache: ajfa-13599.pdf plain text: ajfa-13599.txt item: #90 of 392 id: ajfa-1362 author: Ahmad, Tauseef; Jawabreh, Omar Abdalla; Afeef, Mahmoud (abdel muhsen)Irsheid Al; Almomani, Alaa title: Impact of Customer Relationship Management of Hotel (A Case study Umaid Bhwan) date: 2012 words: 4921 flesch: 51 summary: 3. Research Objectives The research aims to investigate the impact of customer relationship management on customer’s satisfaction, trust, retention in UMAID BHWAN in India, in addition to the following:- 1. To find the impact of implementing customer relationships management to increase the customers trust to Umaid Bahwan. 2. keywords: bhwan; customer; degree; hotel; management; relationship; umaid; value cache: ajfa-1362.pdf plain text: ajfa-1362.txt item: #91 of 392 id: ajfa-13651 author: Dang, Hung Ngoc; Ha, Nguyen Viet; Binh, Dang Thai title: Factors Influencing the Dividend Policy of Vietnamese Enterprises date: 2018 words: 5226 flesch: 60 summary: Keywords: Dividend policy, GLS model, dividend payout ratio; dividend per share ratio Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 17 1. Introduction The aim of dividend policy is to allocate retained earnings for reinvestment and dividends for shareholders. keywords: companies; company; dividend; dividend policy; journal; payout; policy; ratio; results; size cache: ajfa-13651.pdf plain text: ajfa-13651.txt item: #92 of 392 id: ajfa-13674 author: Joshi, Nisarg A; Desai, Jay M title: Models for Prediction of Industrial Insolvency of Manufacturing Companies in India date: 2018 words: 13040 flesch: 53 summary: This study provide bankruptcy prediction models for multiple industries. Investigation on bankruptcy prediction models for service industry firms can also be valuable. keywords: 052x; accounting; analysis; asian; assets; bankruptcy; companies; data; finance; issn; journal; layer; mda; models; network; pca; prediction; ratios; sample; sickness; study; total; vol cache: ajfa-13674.pdf plain text: ajfa-13674.txt item: #93 of 392 id: ajfa-13690 author: Jaber, Amer S. title: Financial Engineering and Its Role in the Growth and Development of Islamic Banking in Palestine date: 2018 words: 6110 flesch: 46 summary: The Situation of This Study from Previous Ones It is clear from the analysis of previous studies that they addressed mainly the concept of innovation and Islamic financial engineering and its reflection on Islamic banks, including the application of financial engineering as a tool to reduce risk in some financing tools. Islamic banks in Palestine should re-formulate their tools and products, or create new ones in a creative way, in line with the global developments in the field of Islamic banking. keywords: banking; banks; development; engineering; financial; islamic; palestine; study cache: ajfa-13690.pdf plain text: ajfa-13690.txt item: #94 of 392 id: ajfa-13719 author: Vu, Van Thi Thuy; Tran, Thoa Thi; Ngo, Xuan Thanh; Nguyen, Linh Nhat title: Relationship between Corporate Capital Structure and Stocks Liquidity: Empirical Evidence in Vietnam date: 2020 words: 5424 flesch: 53 summary: Robert F. Stambaugh (2002) introduced the concept of stock liquidity as follows: Stock liquidity is a very broad and unclear concept, but generally, it reflects the ability to trade a large volume of stock quickly at a low cost with little price fluctuation. On the stock market, the risk of stock liquidity is increasing with more complex trends. keywords: business; capital; finance; journal; liquidity; model; relationship; stock; stock liquidity; structure; value cache: ajfa-13719.pdf plain text: ajfa-13719.txt item: #95 of 392 id: ajfa-13749 author: Cheong, Calvin W. H. title: Religiosity and Corporate Risk-taking date: 2018 words: 11727 flesch: 49 summary: The study uses unique micro-level data on religious devotion and distinguishes between manager religiosity, firm intrinsic religiosity, firm extrinsic religiosity, and social capital. Manager religiosity is also associated with lower firm equity risk. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; behavior; capital; finance; firm; issn; journal; manager; manager religiosity; ownership; religion; religiosity; risk; sample; table; taking; vol cache: ajfa-13749.pdf plain text: ajfa-13749.txt item: #96 of 392 id: ajfa-13892 author: Balagobei, Saseela; Anandasayanan, S. title: Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance of Licensed Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka date: 2018 words: 2871 flesch: 44 summary: Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, Firm performance, Firm size Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 193 1. Therefore this research was based on the evaluation of the impact of corporate social responsibility on firm performance of banks in Sri Lanka. keywords: banks; csr; firm; performance; relationship; responsibility; study cache: ajfa-13892.pdf plain text: ajfa-13892.txt item: #97 of 392 id: ajfa-13900 author: Cheong, Calvin W. H.; Ngui, Lisa L. H.; Beatrice, Shella Georgina title: On Malaysian House Price Growth: The Effects of Market Sentiments date: 2018 words: 10335 flesch: 60 summary: We call this proxy NewStock and expect it to be positively correlated with housing market sentiments. We call this proxy ResMort and expect it to be positively correlated with housing market sentiments. keywords: 052x; asian; finance; house; housing; housing market; index; journal; malaysia; market; prices; property; returns; sentiment; vol cache: ajfa-13900.pdf plain text: ajfa-13900.txt item: #98 of 392 id: ajfa-13929 author: DJEBALI, Nesrine; ZAGHDOUDI, Khemais title: Corporate Governance in Banks and its Impact on Credit and Liquidity Risks: Case of Tunisian Banks date: 2019 words: 9085 flesch: 59 summary: These findings enable bank managers to better understand the factors influencing bank risk and serve as a basis for regulations to strengthen bank governance. This measure has been used in previous work, such as Simpson and Gleason (1999), Sumner and Webb (2005) and Pathan (2009), where they examined the link between board size and bank risks. keywords: banking; banks; board; credit; credit risk; directors; finance; financial; governance; journal; liquidity; liquidity risk; results; risk; state; tunisian cache: ajfa-13929.pdf plain text: ajfa-13929.txt item: #99 of 392 id: ajfa-13976 author: Cheong, Calvin W. H.; Salleh, Nurul Ilma; Fung, Chorng Yuan title: The Complementary Effects of Islam and CSR: Some Empirical Evidence date: 2019 words: 12472 flesch: 51 summary: Following this argument, it is possible that Shariah-compliant companies are more sensitive to changes in market expectations and will experience greater variability in firm performance i.e. they are less resilient as compared to good CSR performance companies during periods of economic distress. Given the additional restrictions imposed upon Shariah-compliant companies and the lack of voluntary disclosure on their operations and investments, Shariah-compliant companies are likely to exhibit greater levels of firm risk as compared to good CSR performance companies. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; business; companies; company; compliant; csr; finance; firm; islamic; issn; journal; market; performance; resilience; risk; shariah; vol; year cache: ajfa-13976.pdf plain text: ajfa-13976.txt item: #100 of 392 id: ajfa-140 author: Choi, Daniel FS; Fang, Victor; Fu, Tian Yong title: Volatility spillovers between New Zealand stock market returns and exchange rate changes before and after the 1997 Asian financial crisis date: 2010 words: 4404 flesch: 59 summary: R tZ 1 and FX tZ 1 denote the standardized innovations of NZ stock market returns and exchange rate changes, respectively. There is consistent unidirectional volatility spillover from NZ stock market returns to NZD/AUD in the two sub-periods. keywords: exchange; exchange rate; market; rate; returns; stock; stock market; volatility cache: ajfa-140.pdf plain text: ajfa-140.txt item: #101 of 392 id: ajfa-14157 author: Dash, Mihir title: Determinants of Systemic Risk of Banks in India date: 2019 words: 6787 flesch: 59 summary: Literature Review Measurement of Systemic Risk There are many definitions of systemic risk and systemic importance advocated in the literature, and many more approaches proposed for their measurement. Determinants of Systemic Risk Several studies have analysed the determinants of systemic risk and systemic importance of banks. keywords: assets; banks; funds; impact; income; interest; net; ratio; risk; sector; sector banks; total cache: ajfa-14157.pdf plain text: ajfa-14157.txt item: #102 of 392 id: ajfa-14168 author: Chen, Haojie; Huei, Ng Sin; Loong, Lew Shian title: Application of Credit Risk Management Model in Chinese Banks date: 2019 words: 8592 flesch: 52 summary: Most importantly, the KMV model assumes that the value of company assets conforms to the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 146 characteristics of lognormal distribution, but the value of company assets generally exhibits non-normal statistical characteristics in reality. Literature Review 2.1 Literature Review There are a number of research papers that revolve around credit risk management models, but for the purposes of our study, we shall focus our attention on those that discuss the KMV model and the Zeta model. keywords: accounting; assets; companies; company; credit; credit risk; default; default probability; kmv; kmv model; model; risk; score; value cache: ajfa-14168.pdf plain text: ajfa-14168.txt item: #103 of 392 id: ajfa-14202 author: Sreeram, Latha title: Volatility Estimation Using Symmetric and Asymmetric Models in Oil Exporting Emerging Markets date: 2019 words: 7995 flesch: 57 summary: Abd El Aal (2011) examined Egyptian stock market return volatility and he found that EGARCH is the best fit model. The return series were used to compute News Impact Curves (NIC), which pointed out the inadequacy of using GARCH in the presence of asymmetric volatility effects, which treats all volatility equally. keywords: countries; effects; finance; garch; journal; markets; model; news; return; series; stock; study; test; variance; volatility cache: ajfa-14202.pdf plain text: ajfa-14202.txt item: #104 of 392 id: ajfa-14242 author: Almaleeh, Nisreen Mohammed title: Motivations for Classification Shifting: A Systematic Review date: 2019 words: 4780 flesch: 44 summary: Keywords: Earnings management, Classification shifting, Motivations, Systematic review Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 1 30 ajfa.macrothink.org 1. Introduction Earnings management is increasingly recognized as a serious accounting research concern, a considerable amount of accounting literature has been published on earnings management in the last two decades. al, 2009) Managers often have the capacity to use all of the three forms of earnings management to achieve earnings targets, making trade-off decisions among them based on the costs, constraints, and timing of each form. keywords: accounting; classification; classification shifting; core; earnings; earnings management; expenses; firms; journal; management; shifting cache: ajfa-14242.pdf plain text: ajfa-14242.txt item: #105 of 392 id: ajfa-14348 author: Wu, Maoguo; Lu, Daimin title: Volatility Spillover Effect of International Crude Oil Futures and China-Russia Stock Market: A Multivariate BEKK-GARCH Model Based on Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis date: 2019 words: 7119 flesch: 57 summary: This study mainly studies the relationship between international crude oil futures price and the comprehensive stock index and industry stock index of China and Russia, and compares the impact of international crude oil futures price on the stock market of the largest importer and the largest exporter of crude oil to explore the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 64 linkage between crude oil futures price and stock market, and puts forward policy implications based on the empirical results. Crude oil futures price is the embodiment of crude oil price, and stock market is the barometer of macro-economy. keywords: brent; brent crude; china; crude; crude oil; futures price; index; market; oil futures; prices; stock cache: ajfa-14348.pdf plain text: ajfa-14348.txt item: #106 of 392 id: ajfa-1435 author: Jawabreh, Omar Abdalla; Alrabei, Ali M title: The Impact of Accounting Information System in Planning, Controlling and Decision-Making Processes in Jodhpur Hotels date: 2012 words: 5488 flesch: 49 summary: Abstract The study aims to identify the reality of accounting information systems in four and five-star hotels in terms of planning, controlling and decision making. After the statistical analysis of the questionnaire, appeared several key findings most important of which are that hotels in Jodhpur didn't use the methods of accounting information system in planning, control and decision making processes. keywords: accounting; accounting information; decision; hotels; information; information system; jodhpur; making; management; planning; system cache: ajfa-1435.pdf plain text: ajfa-1435.txt item: #107 of 392 id: ajfa-14353 author: EL-Dalahmeh, Suleiman Mustafa title: The Effect of Re-engineering of Administrative Processes in Achieving the Competitive Advantage of Sustainable in Five-Star Hotels in Jordan - Field Study date: 2019 words: 4771 flesch: 34 summary: R 2 interprets 22% The value of beta 0.523 indicates that the change in the ability to analyze by one unit leads to an increase in the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage by 0.523 and therefore reject the null hypothesis HO1.2 and accept the alternative hypothesis which states that there is a statistically significant effect at the level of significance α ≤ 0.05 for the ability to analyze the probe Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Five Star Hotels in Jordan The results of the regression analysis of the impact of leadership in achieving sustainable competitive advantage Independent Variable Dependent variable α Alpha β Beta R2 F Sign (0.05) Hypothesis Result Leadership Sustainable of competitive advantage 2.43 0.506 %18 17.52 Rejected The value of the table F at a level of significance (0.05) = 3.00 The data in Table 3 show that the value of Beta = 0.506 indicates that the change in leadership leads to an increase in the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage and therefore rejects the null hypothesis HO1.1 and accepts the alternative hypothesis which states there is a statistically significant effect at the α ≤ 0.05 level To lead the sustainable competitive advantage of five-star hotels in Jordan . keywords: achieving; administrative; advantage; effect; engineering; jordan; processes; star hotels; study cache: ajfa-14353.pdf plain text: ajfa-14353.txt item: #108 of 392 id: ajfa-1442 author: Alzoubi, Ebraheem Saleem Salem title: Board Characteristics and Financial Reporting Quality among Jordanian Listed Companies: Proposing Conceptual Framework date: 2012 words: 5425 flesch: 48 summary: The association between corporate boards, audit committees, and management earnings forecasts: An empirical analysis. Earnings management to avoid earnings decreases and losses. keywords: accounting; board; companies; directors; earnings; finance; firms; frq; governance; journal; management cache: ajfa-1442.pdf plain text: ajfa-1442.txt item: #109 of 392 id: ajfa-1443 author: Heang, Lee Teck; Yap, Ching Seng; Lim, Yet Mee; Tam, Cai Lian title: Accounting Researchers in Asia Pacific: A Study on Publication Productivity and Citation Analysis date: 2012 words: 6871 flesch: 56 summary: The research performance of the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 136 department was assessed based on such measures as publications in top ten accounting journals, publications in accounting journals using weighted rankings, publications in both Australian and New Zealand accounting journals, publications in unweighted accounting and non-accounting journals, and professional accounting publications. Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 135 The structure of the latter part of this paper is as follows: Section 2 reviews past empirical studies on accounting publication productivity. keywords: accounting; accounting journals; authors; finance; hong; journal; kong; productivity; research; study; university cache: ajfa-1443.pdf plain text: ajfa-1443.txt item: #110 of 392 id: ajfa-14455 author: Cheong, Calvin W. H.; Ramasamy, Sockalingam title: Bank Failure: A New Approach to Prediction and Supervision date: 2019 words: 12125 flesch: 62 summary: But as the large number of bank failures resulting from the recent crises shows, our ability to predict bank failure is severely lacking. In this paper, we construct a tool that is able to predict bank failures ahead of time with reasonable accuracy. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; assets; bank; bank failure; banking; failure; finance; financial; health; issn; journal; loans; mean; model; non; ratio; score; statistics; table; variables; vol; year cache: ajfa-14455.pdf plain text: ajfa-14455.txt item: #111 of 392 id: ajfa-14469 author: Anojan, Vickneswaran title: Perception of Government Accountants on Current Public Sector Accounting Practices and Implementation of Public Sector Accounting Standards in the Sri Lanka date: 2019 words: 6500 flesch: 41 summary: Mean analysis confirmed that there is moderate level of public sector accounting practices and implementation of public sector accounting standards in the Sri Lanka. Correlation analysis confirmed that there is significant relationship between public sector accounting practices and implementation of public sector accounting standards. keywords: accounting; accounting practices; accounting standards; finance; government; implementation; practices; sector; sector accounting; sri lanka; standards cache: ajfa-14469.pdf plain text: ajfa-14469.txt item: #112 of 392 id: ajfa-1450 author: Mele, Marco; Baistrocchi, Paola Allegra title: Still on China's exchange regime: the Euro and its role as an international anchor currency date: 2012 words: 3748 flesch: 54 summary: It also brought about the adoption of a new Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 208 exchange rate regime focused on the partial withdrawal of the Dollar, in favor of an exchange rate based on a basket of international currencies. In detail, the functions of an international currency are closely linked in regimes in which other currencies are tethered to a key currency, so that it is able to become a unit of account for the system. keywords: basket; chinese; currency; dollar; euro; exchange; peg; rate cache: ajfa-1450.pdf plain text: ajfa-1450.txt item: #113 of 392 id: ajfa-14627 author: Stein Smith, Sean title: Emerging Technologies and the Accounting Profession: Trends and Topics for Practitioners to Consider date: 2019 words: 6845 flesch: 35 summary: Clearly every organization is different and will have unique needs associated with different emerging technologies, but practitioners will need to posses the following traits. This may seem like a technical detail more interesting to a computer science conversation, but it can have substantial effects on the pace with which different technologies and process can actually be adopted and implemented. keywords: accounting; automation; blockchain; cryptocurrencies; information; journal; organizations; practitioners; processes; research; technology cache: ajfa-14627.pdf plain text: ajfa-14627.txt item: #114 of 392 id: ajfa-14645 author: Jain, Vaishali; Dhaigude, Rahul; Divekar, Rajiv title: Empirical Evidence of the Causative Association between Spot, Futures and Options Market: An ARDL Model Approach date: 2020 words: 6513 flesch: 58 summary: A further analysis of the lead-lag relationship between the cash market and stock index futures market. This hypothesis assumes the importance of futures markets in absorbing and disseminating information to the cash market.” keywords: finance; futures; futures markets; index; index futures; journal; markets; options; prices; relationship; spot; stock cache: ajfa-14645.pdf plain text: ajfa-14645.txt item: #115 of 392 id: ajfa-14674 author: Sami, Janesh title: Random Walk Hypothesis for Stock Prices in Fiji date: 2021 words: 5881 flesch: 78 summary: t root test w m walk. [0.15, 0.85] Asian om January ncial Statist of stock p , 1979) and t provide de wever, these ncorrectly c as been wid nit root test tudy employ structural br for two stru an informat ks on the ser k developed 03) showe power and i the unit roo cept and has reak agains function that     jtj y 1  alue of TB We estima ation, and e ces and T is tU is an in he correspo wise 0. keywords: 052x; asian; break; fiji; finance; issn; journal; lee; market; model; narayan; popp; prices; random; root; stock; test; unit; walk cache: ajfa-14674.pdf plain text: ajfa-14674.txt item: #116 of 392 id: ajfa-14678 author: Mawutor, John Kwaku Mensah; Wlliams, Siaw; Oduwaa, Mensah Anita title: Assessment of the Adoption and Implementation of IFRS for Small and Medium Scale Entities (SMEs). “A Study of Selected SMEs GA East of Ghana” date: 2019 words: 7733 flesch: 52 summary: International financial reporting standards, Financial standards . Following this reason, the existence or nonexistence of institutions that can inspire economic players to adapt to international accounting standards could be one of the key prime movers of international accounting standards acceptance (Judge, Li, & Pinsker, 2010). keywords: accounting; adoption; business; entities; finance; firms; ghana; ifrs; implementation; international; journal; reporting; smes; standard; study cache: ajfa-14678.pdf plain text: ajfa-14678.txt item: #117 of 392 id: ajfa-14679 author: Mawutor, John Kwaku Mensah; Boachie Yiadom, Eric; Amankwa, Richard Fosu title: Investment and Growth Amidst Widening Government Debt: “The Ghanaian Story” date: 2019 words: 5025 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract The study revisits the debt-growth nexus and broadens the argument to examine the unique effect of government debt on investment in Ghana. The empirical results from the Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) suggest an inverse relationship between government debt and economic growth in Ghana. keywords: capital; debt; economic; economy; effect; gdp; ghana; government; growth; investment; journal cache: ajfa-14679.pdf plain text: ajfa-14679.txt item: #118 of 392 id: ajfa-1478 author: Patro, Archana; Kanagaraj, A. title: Exploring the Herding Behaviour in Indian Mutual Fund Industry date: 2012 words: 6769 flesch: 55 summary: It is also shown that herding funds benefit from this activity during the quarter in which they herd. Lakonishok Schleifer Vishny (LSV, 1991) can be regarded as the pioneers of empirical tests of herding behaviour this is the measure most widely used in empirical studies of mutual fund herding behaviour. keywords: = =; behavior; finance; funds; herding; indian; investors; market; measure; stock; study; trading cache: ajfa-1478.pdf plain text: ajfa-1478.txt item: #119 of 392 id: ajfa-14805 author: Oskouei, Zahra Hashemi; Aminifard, Zeynab title: The Impact of Managerial Entrenchment Indicators on Cash Holding Adjustments: Stock Exchange Firms date: 2019 words: 6407 flesch: 55 summary: Also, there is a significant positive relationship between the over- investment risk and cash holding adjustments. These results suggest a significant positive relationship between the managerial entrenchment and cash holding adjustments. keywords: adjustments; cash; cash holding; entrenchment; firms; holding; hypothesis; investment; relationship; variable cache: ajfa-14805.pdf plain text: ajfa-14805.txt item: #120 of 392 id: ajfa-14839 author: Mittal, Amit; Garg, Ajay Kumar title: How do Indian Firms Cope with a Crisis? - Earnings Management Characteristics of CNX Nifty 100 Companies date: 2019 words: 8184 flesch: 44 summary: Goel (2018) tests for MNE vs domestic difference in earnings management using reputation; Ming (2003) and Elleuch and Taktak(2015) use earnings management to trace the process of effectivising corporate governance and regulation in an emerging economy; while Safdar and Yan (2016) and Attia, Lassoud & Attia (2016) recover significant managerial outcomes employing Earnings management models. Dechow et al. (2012) continue their 1995 seminal review of earnings management models in an effort to create a more robust test to detect earnings management by assuming the eventual reversal of discretionary accruals in the very next year. keywords: 052x; accounting; accruals; banks; crisis; data; earnings; earnings management; finance; firms; journal; management; sample; vol; years cache: ajfa-14839.pdf plain text: ajfa-14839.txt item: #121 of 392 id: ajfa-14866 author: Parthasarathy, Srikanth title: Does Nifty Index Inclusion (still) Convey Information? A Comprehensive Empirical Examination in the Indian Stock Market date: 2019 words: 10235 flesch: 57 summary: Table 1 reports a partial price reversal to the tune of -1.5% suggesting more tests to examine the price pressure around ED. The results show that index addition effect, though significant, has diminished in the second sub period. keywords: car; complete; effects; finance; index; journal; market; mean; nifty; period; price; return; stocks; volume; window cache: ajfa-14866.pdf plain text: ajfa-14866.txt item: #122 of 392 id: ajfa-14920 author: Li, Yanwu title: Financial Mismatch, Assets Specificity and Capital Structure date: 2019 words: 9413 flesch: 49 summary: Through the analysis of the existing research results, we found that the current research on financial resource mismatch still has the following problems, 1. The mechanism of interaction between financial resource mismatch and economic growth still needs to be carefully scrutinized. keywords: asset; asset specificity; capital; capital structure; china; companies; debt; enterprises; finance; journal; mismatch; research; resources; specificity; state; structure cache: ajfa-14920.pdf plain text: ajfa-14920.txt item: #123 of 392 id: ajfa-1507 author: Alam, Nafis title: The Impact of Regulatory and Supervisory Structures on Bank Risk and Efficiency: Evidence from Dual Banking System date: 2012 words: 11360 flesch: 47 summary: Our results indicated that Islamic banks efficiency were positively influenced by regulations related to the second and third Pillars of Basel II, namely higher supervisory power, and disclosures while conventional banks efficiency were negatively influenced. Overall the result shows that on an average technical efficiency of conventional banks have outperformed Islamic banks efficiency except for year 2008 and 2009. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; banking; banks; capital; country; efficiency; finance; impact; islamic; issn; journal; regulations; risk; supervisory; system; vol; www.macrothink.org/ajfa cache: ajfa-1507.pdf plain text: ajfa-1507.txt item: #124 of 392 id: ajfa-15149 author: HADDAD, Achraf; EL AMMARI, Anis; BOURI, Abdelfettah title: Are Islamic Banks Really More Solvent Than Conventional Banks in a Financial Stable Period? date: 2019 words: 11771 flesch: 52 summary: In conclusion, we found that conventional banks are more solvent than Islamic banks during a financial stable period. Keywords: Conventional banks, Islamic banks, Solvency, Comparative study, Financial stable period. keywords: accounting; analysis; asian; banking; banks; cbs; finance; financial; ibs; international; islamic; issn; journal; performance; ratios; research; risk; solvency; solvent; study; test cache: ajfa-15149.pdf plain text: ajfa-15149.txt item: #125 of 392 id: ajfa-1518 author: Zakaria, Nadisah; Arnold, Glen Christopher title: Do Malaysian spin-offs create value? date: 2012 words: 8776 flesch: 61 summary: Overall, these findings imply that spin-offs produce positive abnormal share returns in the short-run period; but fail to demonstrate abnormal performance after adjusting for size in the long-run period. The test-statistic for the monthly buy and hold abnormal returns,  21 , ttBHAR during the clustering period from t1 to period t2 is calculated as:   keywords: firms; journal; malaysia; market; mas; offs; period; returns; run; size; spin cache: ajfa-1518.pdf plain text: ajfa-1518.txt item: #126 of 392 id: ajfa-15215 author: Vasishth, Vibhuti; Sehgal, Sanjay title: Explaining Value vs. Growth Fallacy: An Empirical Study for Indian Market date: 2019 words: 8113 flesch: 61 summary: With reverse conditional sorting process; i.e. constructing value based portfolios within growth based groups, we observe that 2.39% P.M. and 0.83% P.M. is earned by low P/E-high growth portfolio and high P/E-low growth portfolio respectively. Further, an analysis of risk adjusted returns shows that profits of univariate earnings growth based portfolios, and high value portfolio is captured by Capital Asset Pricing Model. keywords: earnings; factor; growth; high; journal; low; market; portfolios; returns; stocks; strategies; value cache: ajfa-15215.pdf plain text: ajfa-15215.txt item: #127 of 392 id: ajfa-15234 author: Chen, Dylan Siong-Yain; Liew, Venus Khim-Sen title: Impacts of Unusual Market Activity Announcement on Stock Return: Evidence from The Ace Market in Malaysia date: 2019 words: 6495 flesch: 65 summary: However, the CAR at the day 30 was still ended with 21% lower than announcement day. Recently, Gerace et al. (2014) analysed stock market manipulation on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. keywords: announcement; car; companies; day; days; market; price; return; stock; study; uma; 𝐴𝐴𝑅 cache: ajfa-15234.pdf plain text: ajfa-15234.txt item: #128 of 392 id: ajfa-15235 author: Ku, Alfred Ing-Soon; Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Puah, Chin-Hong title: Tracking Errors of Exchange Traded Funds in Bursa Malaysia date: 2019 words: 5328 flesch: 61 summary: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 99 Trading volume of Malaysia ETFs on exchange have been thin since inception. The ranking of the remainder ETFs, in the ascending order of tracking error is MYETFID, METFSID, MYETFDJ, CIMC50, FBMKLCI-EA and CIMBA40 (highest tracking error). keywords: error; etfs; funds; index; journal; malaysia; metfapa; return; tracking cache: ajfa-15235.pdf plain text: ajfa-15235.txt item: #129 of 392 id: ajfa-15276 author: ALHUSSAIN, MESHARI title: Accounting Education and Labor Market Needs date: 2019 words: 9429 flesch: 48 summary: (Khalil, 2005) emphasized the existence of a real problem represented in the low efficiency and effectiveness of inputs, methods, and outputs of accounting education in Arab universities, in addition to the scarcity of accounting studies interested in assessing the reality and future of accounting education. (Al-Asmari, 2018) pointed out that the importance of university accounting education is reflected in its role in the economic development of countries, so the graduate of the accounting specialization must be qualified to help him perform his job in a positive and effective manner. keywords: accounting; accounting education; accounting issn; axis; outputs; quality; sample; study; table; teaching; tests; universities; university cache: ajfa-15276.pdf plain text: ajfa-15276.txt item: #130 of 392 id: ajfa-15328 author: KHIARI, Wided title: Corporate Governance, Performance and Efficiency: Case of the Tunisian Listed Firms date: 2019 words: 5902 flesch: 52 summary: However, a value close to zero indicates low governance efficiency. Corporate governance index and firm performance: empirical evidence from India. keywords: accounting; board; characteristics; companies; directors; efficiency; finance; firm; governance; journal; ownership; performance cache: ajfa-15328.pdf plain text: ajfa-15328.txt item: #131 of 392 id: ajfa-15469 author: Agrawal, Tarunika Jain; Sehgal, Sanjay; Agrawal, Rahul title: Determinants of Successful Agri - Futures Contracts in India date: 2019 words: 11783 flesch: 51 summary: Thus, the study identifies important market characteristics and elements of contract design that have implications for the success of agri commodities futures contract in India. Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 121 Keywords: Agriculture, Futures market, Panel Data Analysis, successful factors, Commodity transaction tax JEL Classification: G10, G13, Q02, Q18 Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 122 1. keywords: accounting; agri; commodities; commodity; contract; contract success; finance; futures; futures contract; futures market; india; journal; market; price; size; spot; spot market; study; success; trading; volatility cache: ajfa-15469.pdf plain text: ajfa-15469.txt item: #132 of 392 id: ajfa-15481 author: Altaee, Hatem Hatef Abdulkadhim; Al-Jafari, Mohamed Khaled title: The Impact of Saving and Financial Development on Economic Growth in Turkey date: 2019 words: 5582 flesch: 55 summary: As mentioned earlier, there is no shortages in literature (Demirhan, 2016; Yildiz and Atasaygin, 2015; Zeran and Akbas, 2013; Şamiloğlu and Savaş, 2010) that studied the influences of different economic variables on economic growth in Turkey. Abstract Since saving and financial development are vital to economic growth, this research empirically investigates the impact of saving and financial development on economic growth in Turkey. keywords: development; gdp; growth; journal; relationship; results; run; saving; turkey; variables cache: ajfa-15481.pdf plain text: ajfa-15481.txt item: #133 of 392 id: ajfa-1560 author: Sehgal, Sanjay; Jain, Sakshi title: Prior Return Patterns in Sector Returns: Evidence for Emerging Markets date: 2012 words: 8254 flesch: 63 summary: We observe that a large part of prior return patterns in stock returns are absorbed by similar patterns in sector returns. Since the end of nineties, a body of literature has emerged that concentrates on prior return patterns in sector returns and which advocates that these sector patterns tend to drive prior return patterns in stock returns. keywords: finance; formation; growth; industry; journal; markets; momentum; months; months‐12‐12; patterns; portfolio; returns; sector; stock; strategies; term cache: ajfa-1560.pdf plain text: ajfa-1560.txt item: #134 of 392 id: ajfa-15640 author: Al-Mohareb, Manar Moffadi title: Cash Conversion Cycle and Profitability, Evidence from Jordan date: 2019 words: 5970 flesch: 43 summary: Abstract This study investigates the impact of working capital management and its components on profitability as a practical aspect, and how is compatible with the theoretical aspect. Practically, the results indicate that there is a significant relationship between the cash conversion cycle, which is considered as a proxy of working capital management, and profitability of the manufacturing firms. keywords: capital; capital management; ccc; firms; management; manufacturing; profitability; relationship; working cache: ajfa-15640.pdf plain text: ajfa-15640.txt item: #135 of 392 id: ajfa-15645 author: Wagdi, Osama; Hasaneen, Amira; Abouzeid, Walid title: The Impact of Bank's Asset and Liability Structure on their Profitability Regardless of Monetary Policy and Size: A Panel Analysis date: 2019 words: 6572 flesch: 51 summary: Also its effect is stronger on bank's profit (Borio et al 2017) according to monetary policy; There are several studies that have addressed the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 188 relationship between bank profitability and monetary policy (Demertzis and Wolff, 2016; Borio et. al.m 2017; Altavilla et al., 2018). Still within Africa, Ayanda et al. (2013) Results revealed in Nigeria that contrary to views of some authors, Bank Size and Cost Efficiency did not significantly determine bank profitability. keywords: accounting; assets; bank; banking; figure; finance; impact; journal; profitability; rate; ratio; return; structure; study cache: ajfa-15645.pdf plain text: ajfa-15645.txt item: #136 of 392 id: ajfa-15740 author: Stein Smith, Sean title: How Stablecoin Implementation Can Lead to Increased Accounting Clarity and Standardization date: 2019 words: 5062 flesch: 43 summary: The scrutiny and backlash that the Libra initiative and Association has generated since its initial launch is indicative of this structural headwind that continues to present challenges to other stablecoins oriented and designed to either augment or entirely replace existing financial infrastructure and systems. While it is true that the majority of fiat linked stablecoins are connected to the US Dollar the potential for other fiat linked stablecoins continues to increase. keywords: accounting; assets; conversation; cryptoasset; cryptocurrencies; currency; journal; services; stablecoins cache: ajfa-15740.pdf plain text: ajfa-15740.txt item: #137 of 392 id: ajfa-1579 author: Eagle, David; Djatej, Arsen title: The Percent-Change Extension to the DuPont Identity date: 2012 words: 4053 flesch: 59 summary: DuPont Identity Example 4 time Profit Margin Total Asset Turnover Equity Multiplier ROE 2008 10.00% 1.28 1.2 15.36% 2009 9.00 1.30 1.4 16.38% % increase -10.00% +1.56% +16.67% +6.64% instantaneous % increase -10.54% +1.55% +15.42% +6.43% Table 4 presents an example where the growth rate formula (6) or its approximation (7) is more useful than the DuPont Identity itself for determining the real reason behind a ROE increase. +20.00% +8.33% +17.00% instantaneous % increase -10.54% +18.23% +8.00% +15.70% If we apply the approximation (7), we would conclude that the ROE decreased by approximately 23.33% (=10%-33.33%). keywords: analysis; change; dupont; identity; increase; rates; roe cache: ajfa-1579.pdf plain text: ajfa-1579.txt item: #138 of 392 id: ajfa-15958 author: El-Dalahmeh, Suleiman title: The Effect of Adopting Activity – Based Costing (ABC) on Maximizing Profitability in Jordanian Private Health Care Sector date: 2020 words: 3723 flesch: 45 summary: Arithmetic averages and standard deviations of the role of ABC cost system in maximizing profitability. HO3: There are no obstacle that facing the Jordanian private hospitals in the applying of activity based costing system. keywords: abc; activity; costing; costs; hospitals; study; system cache: ajfa-15958.pdf plain text: ajfa-15958.txt item: #139 of 392 id: ajfa-166 author: Sciulli, Nick title: Sustainability Reporting by Local Councils in Coastal Regions: An Australian Study date: 2009 words: 3593 flesch: 42 summary: Debate: Public sector sustainability reporting – implications for accountants. Total sustainability reporting disclosures by category. keywords: accounting; councils; disclosures; journal; reporting; research; sector; sustainability cache: ajfa-166.pdf plain text: ajfa-166.txt item: #140 of 392 id: ajfa-1660 author: Ojo, Oke Micheal; Boboye, Ajayi Lawrence title: Macro Effect of Global Financial Crisis on Nigerian Economy date: 2012 words: 5615 flesch: 50 summary: Ajakaiye and Fakiyesi (2009) used computable general equilibrium (CGE) methodology to examine the impact of global financial crisis. FDI is an important variable in any study on global financial crisis because the inflows of foreign capital or international financial assets have the tendency to import inflation from home country to the host country as a result exposes the host country to global financial crisis. keywords: crisis; error; investment; market; model; nigeria; stationary; test; value; variables cache: ajfa-1660.pdf plain text: ajfa-1660.txt item: #141 of 392 id: ajfa-16655 author: Qureshi, Muhammad Junaid; Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed title: The Effect of Intangible Assets on Financial Performance, Financial Policies, and Market Value of Technology Firms: A Global Comparative Analysis date: 2021 words: 9862 flesch: 46 summary: Intangible asset has a direct positive impact on the financial performance of the technology firm H1a: Intangible assets has significant effect on ROE H1a evaluates the impact of intangible assets on ROE. Intangible asset has a direct positive impact on market value of technology firm H3a: Intangible assets has significant effect on P/E H3a evaluates the impact of intangible assets on P/E. keywords: 052x; accounting; assets; capital; company; finance; firm; impact; intangible; issn; journal; manufacturing; market; performance; ratio; results; services; value; vol cache: ajfa-16655.pdf plain text: ajfa-16655.txt item: #142 of 392 id: ajfa-16698 author: Dash, Mihir title: Capital Adequacy and Systemic Risk of Banks in India date: 2020 words: 9230 flesch: 46 summary: van Oordt and Zhou (2015) analysed bank systemic risk into two dimensions, the level of bank tail risk and the linkage between the level of bank tail risk and severe financial shocks to the system. The first step was to consider Capital Adequacy Ratio on its own as the independent variable in a simple linear regression model (model Ia) and a panel regression model with bank and year fixed effects (model Ic). keywords: adequacy ratio; advances; assets; assets ratio; banks; capital adequacy; effects; minimum; model; net; results; risk; sector banks; size cache: ajfa-16698.pdf plain text: ajfa-16698.txt item: #143 of 392 id: ajfa-16770 author: Ramnoher, Lakshana; Seetah, Keshav title: The Link between Profitability and Financial Leverage, Evidence from a Small Island Economy date: 2020 words: 6012 flesch: 51 summary: Furthermore, the average value for financial leverage is 63.48% which indicates that listed firms in Mauritius are highly geared since they have a leverage ratio greater than 50% on average. If the Bank of Mauritius lowers the Repo rate, then commercial banks may subsequently reduce their lending rate thereby encouraging listed firms to take additional debt. keywords: association; debt; finance; firm; journal; leverage; profitability; relationship; theory cache: ajfa-16770.pdf plain text: ajfa-16770.txt item: #144 of 392 id: ajfa-16782 author: Nanayakkara, Neelangie Sulochana; Nimal, P. D.; Weerakoon, Y. K. title: Neoclassical Asset Pricing Tests in Sri Lanka: A Structural Empirical Review date: 2020 words: 7495 flesch: 54 summary: Celik (2012) provides a comprehensive review of asset pricing models and historical stream of empirical research from the year 1974 to 2005. According to Fama (2015) time series and cross sectional regression approaches to test asset pricing models are not competitors but complements. keywords: asset; asset pricing; cse; finance; journal; lanka; market; model; pricing; returns; sri; stock cache: ajfa-16782.pdf plain text: ajfa-16782.txt item: #145 of 392 id: ajfa-16850 author: DADA, Raphael Adekola; TAIWO, Isaac Babatope title: Bearing of Tax Audit on Tax Compliance and Revenue Generation in Ekiti State date: 2020 words: 6917 flesch: 42 summary: Adediran, Alade, and Oshode (2013) examined the impact of tax audit and investigations on revenue generation in Nigeria, obtained data through structure questionnaire from the respondent, tested the hypotheses with Pearson Correlation Coefficient using SPSS output data, the study concluded that Tax audit and investigations could increase the government revenue base and can also stamp out the incidents of tax evasion in the country. A regression analysis technique was adopted, and the result revealed that certain per cent of the revenue generated in Ekiti State could be explained by the tax audit; It was also discovered that auditing access, auditing officials, an effective tax audit, non-compliance, audit fieldwork, tax audit control, and corruption affect the revenue generation by 1.188, 0.319, 0.596, 0.148, 0.157, 0.125 and 0.002 respectively; the probability value 0.00, 0.01, 0.00, 0.022 and 0.00 ˂ 0.05 showed that auditing access, auditing officials, effective tax audit and incentive were statistically significant at 5 per cent level; the probability of F-statistic value 0.000 ˂ 0.05 revealed that the model was appropriate for determining the impact of tax audit on revenue generation in Ekiti State. keywords: accounting; audit; compliance; finance; generation; government; journal; nigeria; revenue; state; tax; tax audit; tax compliance; taxpayer cache: ajfa-16850.pdf plain text: ajfa-16850.txt item: #146 of 392 id: ajfa-16887 author: Wally-Dima, Lillian; Mbekomize, Christian John; Nametsegang, Alicia title: Factors Hindering Class Attendance: Views of University Accounting Students date: 2020 words: 11667 flesch: 56 summary: Class attendance in college: A meta- analytic review of the relationship of class attendance with grades and student characteristics. Evaluation of factors influencing students class attendance and performance, American Agricultural Economics Association, 78, 499-507. keywords: accounting; attendance; class; class attendance; classes; course; factors; journal; mean; performance; students; study; university; year; year students cache: ajfa-16887.pdf plain text: ajfa-16887.txt item: #147 of 392 id: ajfa-1689 author: Olurankinse, Felix title: Due Process and Budget Implementation: An Evaluation of Nigerian Public Sector Auditing date: 2012 words: 4609 flesch: 49 summary: Furthermore, the staff of the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation must be properly trained to focus on relevant value-for-money audits in support of government budget implementation objectives. The issue of budget implementation has long been a source of concern to the public. keywords: accounting; audit; budget; finance; government; implementation; money; process; public; value cache: ajfa-1689.pdf plain text: ajfa-1689.txt item: #148 of 392 id: ajfa-1690 author: Takhtaei, Nasrollah; Mousavi, Zahra title: Disclosure Quality and Firm's Characteristics: Evidence from Iran date: 2012 words: 4058 flesch: 49 summary: Also, we find that there is a significant and negative association between disclosure quality and Firm Size. Using a sample of 80 Iranian firms on the period of 2005-2009, we first examine the relationship between disclosure quality and firm's characteristics. keywords: accounting; current; disclosure; firm; information; journal; quality; ratio; relationship cache: ajfa-1690.pdf plain text: ajfa-1690.txt item: #149 of 392 id: ajfa-1694 author: Apergis, Nicholas; Eleftheriou, Sofia title: The Role of Macroeconomic Factors in Explaining the Cost of Capital: Evidence from a Group of Emerging Economies date: 2012 words: 6106 flesch: 52 summary: The data set includes stock market prices, proxied by the country’s capital market index, while a number of manufacturing firms were used from each country along with their stock prices. Selecting Macroeconomic Variables as Explanatory Factors of Emerging Stock market Returns. keywords: accounting; capital; finance; financial; journal; market; panel; prices; returns; stock; test; unit; variables cache: ajfa-1694.pdf plain text: ajfa-1694.txt item: #150 of 392 id: ajfa-16968 author: Hsieh, Hsin-Jung; Liu, Yen-Chih title: A Reexamination of Firm’s R&D Expenditure Behavior date: 2020 words: 8505 flesch: 50 summary: In addition, in accordance with Fong et al. (2000), who discovered the impact of industry, environment, and corporate characteristics on firm R&D expenditure, this study explores different overall economic conditions (including monitoring indicator, leading indicator, real GDP growth, and different eras) and industrial characteristics (including listed firms and electronic and non- electronic stocks), in the hope that we can use the subsamples to explore the differences in %100 assets Total tax and interest beforeincome Net ROA Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2020, Vol. 12, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 140 decision-making on R&D expenditure under different contexts. As R&D expenditure is categorized as expenses according to the current regulations, accounting statements cannot provide useful information on account of the confidentiality of information on R&D expenditures. keywords: accounting; asymmetry; expenditure; finance; firm; future; information; investment; journal; price; r&d; r&d expenditure; research; stock; taiwan; value cache: ajfa-16968.pdf plain text: ajfa-16968.txt item: #151 of 392 id: ajfa-17014 author: Molla, Md. Ibrahim title: Capital Structure and Bank Performance: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh date: 2020 words: 7517 flesch: 52 summary: To overcome these problems, Prais-Winsten Panels Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) estimate has been applied in this study to investigate the association of capital structure and bank performance as it automatically corrects the problems of first-order autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity and offers the best estimates for the variables. Does capital structure impact firm performance: an empirical study of three U.S. sectors. keywords: accounting; banks; capital structure; debt; finance; financial; firm; impact; journal; performance; roa; term; variables cache: ajfa-17014.pdf plain text: ajfa-17014.txt item: #152 of 392 id: ajfa-1705 author: Suleman, Muhammad Tahir title: Stock Market Reaction to Good and Bad Political News date: 2012 words: 6452 flesch: 59 summary: 4.1 Impact of Good Political News First we test the impact of good political news on the stock returns, means how returns responds to the good news. However some sectors as oil and gas (0.037254), financial (0.061050) and auto and parts (- 0.059129) are not statistically significant with respect to good political news. keywords: effect; good; impact; journal; news; results; returns; risk; sectors; stock; volatility cache: ajfa-1705.pdf plain text: ajfa-1705.txt item: #153 of 392 id: ajfa-17092 author: Huong, Le Thi Minh; Trung, Phan Minh title: The Role of Gold Prices and Interest Rate in Stock Index: Insights from Vietnam by Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach date: 2020 words: 6033 flesch: 60 summary: They confirm that gold is a safe storage asset for stock markets in Singapore, Thailand, England, and the US, except for Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. With Panel Data, the research described the long-run negative impact of interest rates on stock markets in 7 selected countries in Africa Sarahan from 1990 to 2003 (Balogun, Dahalan, & Hassan, 2016). keywords: gold; index; interest; journal; market; model; price; rate; relationship; run; stock; stock market; variables cache: ajfa-17092.pdf plain text: ajfa-17092.txt item: #154 of 392 id: ajfa-17310 author: Alqadi, Faris title: Operating Cash Flow and Dividend Changes as a Management Tool for Planning and Making Decision date: 2020 words: 5064 flesch: 54 summary: Abstract The main objective of this study was to examine whether operating cash flows have incremental information beyond operating net income in explaining dividend changes for a sample of Jordanian industrial firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period 2010-2016 Arguments for operating cash flow information suggest that it is better than accrual net income in reflecting the firm performance and in measuring the firm liquidity. Keywords: Operating cash flow, Dividend changes, Operating net income, Amman stock exchange (ASE) Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2020, Vol. 12, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 2 Introduction Interest in cash flow reporting has increased in recent years. keywords: accounting; cash; changes; dividend; firms; flows; growth; income; operating cache: ajfa-17310.pdf plain text: ajfa-17310.txt item: #155 of 392 id: ajfa-17362 author: Aguguom, Theophilus Anaekenwa title: Operational Risks and Equity Returns: Dynamic and Static Panel Data Analyses date: 2020 words: 8651 flesch: 49 summary: Firstly, considering that the credit risk in OCBC Bank remained high, there is a need to monitor risk management, especially, in areas of the variables that had a significant impact on bank credit risk. 2.5 Empirical Review Mostafa, Mahmoud, Jalal and Elahe (2016) conducted a study to determine the relationship between financial risk and profitability of the banks listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange. keywords: banks; credit; effect; equity; journal; model; performance; returns; risk; significant; study; value; variable cache: ajfa-17362.pdf plain text: ajfa-17362.txt item: #156 of 392 id: ajfa-1737 author: Kumar, Naveen; Singh, J. P. title: Outside Directors, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from India date: 2012 words: 6351 flesch: 44 summary: While several authors find that independent outside directors, protect shareholders in specific instances in which there is an agency problem (Weishbach 1988; Byrd and Hickman, 1992; Xie et al., 2003; McCabe and Nowark, 2008). Many researchers (Baysinger and Butler, 1985; Dalton et al., 1998; Dalton and Daily, 1999; Fernandes, 2005) do not find any relationship between board composition with representation of outside independent directors and firm performance. keywords: board; companies; directors; effect; finance; firm; governance; independent; journal; ownership; performance; shareholders; value cache: ajfa-1737.pdf plain text: ajfa-1737.txt item: #157 of 392 id: ajfa-1752 author: Yap, Ben Chin Fook; Munuswamy, Shanmugam; Mohamed, Zulkifflee title: Evaluating Company Failure in Malaysia Using Financial Ratios and Logistic Regression date: 2012 words: 6041 flesch: 49 summary: Keywords: Financial ratios, Company failures, Failure predictions, Logistic regression. Predicting corporate failure in Malaysia: An application of the Logit Model to financial ratio analysis. keywords: accounting; analysis; bankruptcy; classification; companies; company; failure; finance; journal; model; ratios; studies; year cache: ajfa-1752.pdf plain text: ajfa-1752.txt item: #158 of 392 id: ajfa-17521 author: Bhattarai, Bishnu Prasad title: Determinants of Capital Adequacy Ratio of Commercial Banks in Nepal date: 2020 words: 8828 flesch: 48 summary: Overall, the findings support a conclusion that changes in bank capital over the period studied have been ‘risk-based’. The results of the study revealed that the liquidity has positive and statistically significant effects on capital adequacy ratio. keywords: adequacy ratio; assets; banks; capital adequacy; car; effect; journal; liquidity; quality; rate; risk; size; study; variables cache: ajfa-17521.pdf plain text: ajfa-17521.txt item: #159 of 392 id: ajfa-1764 author: Apergis, Nicholas; Gabrielsen, Alexandros; Payne, James; Zagaglia, Paolo title: Testing for Convergence in the European Insurance Sector: A Non-Linear Factor Approach date: 2012 words: 5831 flesch: 49 summary: It is possible, when moving away from the strict null hypothesis of full convergence, to observe convergence clusters around separate equilibrium, or even convergence clusters and divergent members in the full panel. Keywords: financial convergence, Phillip and Sul convergence method, European insurance sector ________________ * Corresponding author Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012, Vol. 4, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 3 1. keywords: accounting; assets; club; convergence; emu; european; finance; insurance; integration; journal; vienna cache: ajfa-1764.pdf plain text: ajfa-1764.txt item: #160 of 392 id: ajfa-17679 author: Samaduzzaman, Munshi title: Blockchain: Future of Accounting Education date: 2020 words: 6268 flesch: 56 summary: Implementation of Blockchain Technology in Accounting And Financial Services Industries As opined by Yeoh (2017), blockchain accounting technology has been used in case of identifying the transfer of ownership of assets and to maintain a ledger of financial information. Blockchain technology is a peer to peer communication that allows participants to secure the settlement of transactions, achieve the transactions and transfer of assets at low cost. keywords: accounting; bitcoin; blockchain; blockchain technology; business; data; entry; network; system; technology; transactions cache: ajfa-17679.pdf plain text: ajfa-17679.txt item: #161 of 392 id: ajfa-17685 author: Tlemsani, Issam; Alghamdi, Maram; Balhareth, Samar; Alsaleh, Fatimah; Alomair, Munira; Alqutaim, Munirah title: The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on New York Stock Exchange date: 2020 words: 3425 flesch: 53 summary: There are several factors that can either positively or negatively impact the value of stock markets, such factors are financial, economic or health (Tlemsani and Matthews, 2010). Unfortunately, stock markets cannot make any improvements until this pandemic is contained. keywords: coronavirus; data; investors; journal; market; new; nyse; stock cache: ajfa-17685.pdf plain text: ajfa-17685.txt item: #162 of 392 id: ajfa-1783 author: Fauzi, Fitriya; Locke, Stuart title: Do Agency Costs Really Matter? A Non-linear Approach of Panel Data date: 2012 words: 7207 flesch: 48 summary: Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between agency cost, ownership structure and corporate governance mechanisms. Furthermore, addressing the issue of non-linearity, this study confirms that the relationship between agency costs, ownership structures and corporate governance mechanisms are non-linear. keywords: agency; agency costs; board; committee; costs; directors; finance; firms; governance; journal; new; non; ownership cache: ajfa-1783.pdf plain text: ajfa-1783.txt item: #163 of 392 id: ajfa-1786 author: Doaei, Meysam; Ahmad Anuar, Melati B.; Adb Hamid, Nik Intan Norhan title: Corporate Diversification and Financial Performance: A Review of Literature date: 2012 words: 9493 flesch: 71 summary: y suggests t Mat Nor, 200 perational s ) developed nown as its ersification s nused resou ificity (C. A mmed from d firms act creases (Edw eases the m tory pricing es market p er, 1973). h threshold o ement Inter J. S. (199 ademy of Ma Effects of nal firms. keywords: 052x; asian; business; diversif; entropy; ersification; fication; finance; firm; foreign; http://dx; index; ink.org/ajfa; inter; issn; journal; mance; market; ment; new; ormance; perform; review; risk; studies; theory; total; vol; x.doi.org/10 cache: ajfa-1786.pdf plain text: ajfa-1786.txt item: #164 of 392 id: ajfa-1813 author: Muhammad, Fidlizan; Mohamad, Ahmad Azam Sulaiman; Mohd Hussin, Mohd Yahya; Abdul Razak, Azila title: Does Islamic Interbank Rate Influence Bank Characteristics and Economic Cycle in Malaysian Monetary Transmission? date: 2012 words: 5047 flesch: 52 summary: accordingly, Islamic banks are the significant intermediaries in ensuring the effect of policy implementation provides stimulation to the achievement of the desired economic goals. Based on equation (1), TF which represents the amount of financing Islamic banks is regressed with real GDP growth as a control variable for controlling the change in loan demand. keywords: bank; banking; channel; credit; economic; financing; islamic; policy; rate; transmission; variables cache: ajfa-1813.pdf plain text: ajfa-1813.txt item: #165 of 392 id: ajfa-1827 author: FLIFEL, Kaouther title: Financial Markets between Efficiency and Persistence: Empirical Evidence on Daily Data date: 2012 words: 12231 flesch: 69 summary: s some con s reason we summarize ndex returns on that sugg ment in whi e returns fr d in the pric etween the o s challenge correlation existence o istical V sho following re Merval there e markets. Therefo statistic R/S ponent (0 0 epresent the o, the whole he P-value 4 (0.3294) in s, the appro Asian 474257) p > correspondin are x1 (0.81 opriate mode 0.898846, p xed effects m fficient P- 507359 0 001121 0 000774 0 712163 0 000305 0 22 0.0 0.991987 P-value 0 χ2 4.7 s: ed effects m at fixed effe s model and 0.05), indica e outcomes e model is of F test of ndividually. From e value of f ccounting 946-052X 14, No. 2 think.org/ n y nd ) y nd ) y and y y ), y ) ors have both the Act (Law impacts pacts (y1 impacts debt/total mber and une 2021 pectively he value 19180.3 portation April to financial leasing the tota about 7 From A pounds transpor of the to about 7 April to pounds The tot million are in fi 17.33% 2,936.8 Financi Financi first six Corples the peri third pla Accord Financi percent of June while it with a Compan There w represen Egyptia The tot 2021. keywords: act; ajfa.macro; asian; assets; debt; effect; egyptian; finance; financial; firm; ifrs; issn; journal; lease; leasing; model; results; study; table; test; think.org/; total; value; vol cache: ajfa-18956.pdf plain text: ajfa-18956.txt item: #185 of 392 id: ajfa-18959 author: Anna Paola Micheli; Anna Maria Calce; Elisa Cafolla title: The Variables That Influence Value: An Analysis of European Listed Companies date: 2022 words: 5948 flesch: 64 summary: In t n firm profi s and mana ates for the liates is po ccounting 946-052X 14, No. 2 think.org/ hip with ring and 93-2001 facturing her hand, mpact of -specific w that the ment, and rtuguese ger ones, of Greek to firm ng to 15 The two ariables, exports, how that ely and n cement d on the ow that fit ratio, e period is noted cteristics lags and he third itability. The and GDP, everage, inflation mance of e period ers have ROA are gnificant ity from s appear debt has evaluate tion for ependent gy sector, ar 2020. keywords: data; finance; firm; issn; journal; ratio; research; roe; size; value; variable; vol cache: ajfa-18959.pdf plain text: ajfa-18959.txt item: #186 of 392 id: ajfa-18963 author: Zucchelli, Davidia title: Financial Inclusion is Rapidly Growing but the Access to Financial Services Remains Modest date: 2023 words: 18251 flesch: 71 summary: CO ECID MD PE 60% ount (%) n Journal of F red through machines (A eless, while Ms and com eographical cations for e usefulness falling in d he adoption gy. % and USD) al inclusion , if we cons in the ellips P per head. keywords: 052x; account; adults; age; ajfa.macro; asian; bank; banking; cesee; countries; credit; data; databa; finance; financial; findex; gap; gdp; global; high; inclusion; income; inst; issn; journal; low; mobile; money; ndex; note; open; people; source; ssa; think.org/; use; vol; women; world cache: ajfa-18963.pdf plain text: ajfa-18963.txt item: #187 of 392 id: ajfa-18968 author: Md. Moniruzzaman; Dr. Annuar Md Nassir; Dato’ Dr. Mohd Padzil Hashim title: Financing by the Encashment of Trade Receivables through Trade Receivable Exchange in Bangladesh date: 2023 words: 16625 flesch: 75 summary: ed, a client netary valu t. cess of the here multip upplying fi e of the inv d debtor (th the remain functional d e sends purc ers the good ate accepts e accepted b of CMSME ciers submit ubmitted by uates the o he expiry of e study, the es TRX Wor uyers, suppl ables, buyer model is to nventionally been appro ancing from tep procedu ies online t bank acco ue of the i exchange le investor rm) receiv voice value he buyer) p ing balanc definition of chase order ds or servic the goods bill on the T E from buye their online financiers b ptions and f specified p 43 findings are rk? liers, and f rs to approv enable CM y. A due fra oved accord m another le ure, the mod to become ount is set invoice ma verifies th rs buy slice ves funds i e (say, 90% pays its in e available Dorfleitne ved the acc in the opin e firms and i addition to draft facilit ) can enhan -a-days vari supply cha ined transa n to factorin ctoring. keywords: 052x; ajfa.macro; asian; ation; banglad; bangladesh; bank; bdt; business; capital; cash; country; credit; crore; data; days; desh; digital; econom; exchange; finance; financial; financing; fintech; firms; form; ict; iii; india; invoice; issn; journal; large; market; ment; note; period; receivab; services; source; stock; study; table; think.org/; trade; trx; vol cache: ajfa-18968.pdf plain text: ajfa-18968.txt item: #188 of 392 id: ajfa-18970 author: Dash, Mihir; S., Rita title: A Study on the Effect of Portfolio Allocation on Mutual Funds date: 2023 words: 6589 flesch: 60 summary: The objective of the study was to find the short-term effects of portfolio allocation on the performance of mutual funds. Keywords: asset management company, portfolio allocations, returns, performance, debt funds, equity funds Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2023, Vol. 15, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org/ 67 Introduction There are hundreds of mutual funds in the market, each offering different returns. keywords: allocation; equity; funds; mean; returns; sectors; sig; table cache: ajfa-18970.pdf plain text: ajfa-18970.txt item: #189 of 392 id: ajfa-18977 author: Lajuni, Nelson; Mathew Kevin Bosi; Mohd Noor Azli bin Ali Khan; Melissa Della Joy title: Measuring Qualitative Characteristics of Internet Financial Reporting: Evidence from Malaysia date: 2024 words: 10638 flesch: 60 summary: T munication areholders, ller et al., 2 nting standa Q), preventi conomic de rature point ti et al. (201 broad discre while omittin egulated po entities prov andards for 018). Howe ards govern ing investo ecision (Bot ts to certain 14) and Ke etion to ma ng negative olicy that ex vide differen r corporate has made it omparisons b that some r n on their w study cond es sluggishly by virtue of used for ec urement dev to the qu w that inde mechanisms atements, e e measured f specific d sefulness, w on & Yang Hanafi et al rnational F mphasise a monstrates th ring the v y of corpor the need to ccounting 946-052X 16, No. 1 think.org/ y due to hnology, ence and Internet with the ever, the ning the ors from tti et al., n factors liwon et anipulate e reports xplicitly nt levels Internet difficult between eporting websites ducted in y update f the fact conomic vice that ualitative ex-based include earnings directly etails or which is g, 2008; keywords: ajfa.macro; asian; assess; ation; com; data; doi.org/10.1; et al; finance; financial; https://d; ifr; ifrq; index; informa; internet; issn; journal; masb; ment; non; quality; reporting; reports; study; think.org/; van; vol; websites cache: ajfa-18977.pdf plain text: ajfa-18977.txt item: #190 of 392 id: ajfa-18985 author: Rodriguez, Armando; Heudorfer, George; Kench, Brian title: Insights into University Composite Rankings from Explainable AI Counterfactuals date: 2024 words: 6255 flesch: 68 summary: e validity o the rank ac trategists at learning ( I 4) (Rybinsk duced to ass Among the e different ge is a diffi olleges in e most imp It is difficu human cap e attending, d earnings ch of a per nevale, Che l asymmetr arkets can c he higher e y, and may ses (Li, Hor f unchecked tors such as ms. Univers versity servi tomers. keywords: ajfa.macro; asian; college; data; doi; finance; issn; journal; local; rankings; think.org/; univers; university; vol cache: ajfa-18985.pdf plain text: ajfa-18985.txt item: #191 of 392 id: ajfa-18987 author: Noora F. Alibrahim title: Diversifying Investments in Gulf Countries to Mitigate Financial Risks from Oil Price Volatility: A Case of Kuwait date: 2024 words: 13064 flesch: 60 summary: s in externa dependence ning that, t my but also s cial stability h work is s ing more ef oil export nding of exi y to mitiga y. Furthermo milar proble tely prepar a larger per wable sourc by discussi economies s to shed li nergy indus iew e oil resour ve been tran ulnerable t oil-exportin heavy depen e: investme conomic sta C and Kuw ture of the d the paths t endence on he GCC inc il. The gap b versify its Through in ccounting 946-052X 16, No. 2 think.org/ dynamic ntial for h graphs acts and vernment venue in t oil has where oil ercent of 88% of l and its ines the ough oil ough any l burden services between revenue ncreased investm more ba diversif promote revenue creating 4.2 Imp Kuwait Kuwait which i growth. keywords: ajfa.macro; analysis; asian; cou; data; diversif; doi.org/10.1; econom; economic; energy; fication; finance; gcc; gdp; global; growth; gulf; hat; https://d; ies; ing; investm; issn; ity; journal; kuwait; market; ment; non; oil; policy; price; public; research; revenue; risks; sectors; stability; study; think.org/; versification; vol cache: ajfa-18987.pdf plain text: ajfa-18987.txt item: #192 of 392 id: ajfa-18994 author: Kalashyan, Gurgen title: The The Impact of Intangible Assets on Company Performance in Georgia date: 2025 words: 13051 flesch: 56 summary: They cularly in in oftware, an h focus on ccounting 946-052X 17, No. 1 think.org/ he skills n capital, creative country ing that e assets. ike intellect y but are ina financial m e assets, resu 6) further el gibles contr disclose an ancial metr he true eco r market do also explor market return ents, investo ervaluation rschey and R ible assets and Darroug d to be unde ing value to persist unti ading to an gest that th gh-innovatio in R&D an assets. keywords: ajfa.macro; asian; assets; ble; brand; capital; ccounting; com; compan; e assets; effect; ent; finance; financial; firm; georgia; growth; impact; intangib; ion; issn; journal; key; mance; market; ntangible; ormance; perform; property; r&d; results; ria; roa; role; specific; study; tests; think.org/; value; vol cache: ajfa-18994.pdf plain text: ajfa-18994.txt item: #193 of 392 id: ajfa-1908 author: Albaity, Mohamed Shikh; Shanmugam, T. title: An Analysis of Volatility Co-Movement between Malaysia, US, UK and Japan Stock Markets date: 2012 words: 13244 flesch: 67 summary: W d by the ot xogenous m ng in leadi rable influen s of the stoc ends and no ce of anoth significant onomy to f rms, and th icipation ha gree of co-m Finance & Ac ISSN 19 2012, Vol. www.macrothi 000-2008 LCI Malaysia) 4 4 4 9 9 9 .72 .72 .72 23 24 24 5-day, 10- nates in the according to in the first xogenous s innovations f the foreca em to have m pan tops the variances f With such a m ther market market amon ing stock m nce on Mal ck markets o market is her market. ement practi k market vo and Metho mpling Desig study inve markets in th hocks. keywords: -0.0; 052x; asian; ation; daily; day; effects; equity; error; ets; finance; financial; garch; http://dx; ink.org/ajfa; issn; japan; journal; malaysia; market; model; mov; returns; risk; shocks; stock; study; table; var; vements; vol; volatility; world; www.macrothi; x.doi.org/10 cache: ajfa-1908.pdf plain text: ajfa-1908.txt item: #194 of 392 id: ajfa-193 author: Li, Yuelin; Sadeghi, Mehdi title: Price Performance and Liquidity Effects of Index Additions and Deletions: Evidence from Chinese Equity Markets date: 2010 words: 11185 flesch: 53 summary: Stock market liquidity and information asymmetry around voluntary earnings announcements: new evidence from France, Working Paper, Université Paris XII, SSRN. Volatility clustering and nontrading days in Chinese stock markets. keywords: accounting; citic; day; event; finance; index; information; journal; market; price; return; s&p; spread; stock; vol cache: ajfa-193.pdf plain text: ajfa-193.txt item: #195 of 392 id: ajfa-194 author: Hribar, Paul; Jenkins, Nicole; Wang, Juan title: Institutional investor and accounting restatement date: 2010 words: 14889 flesch: 42 summary: We show that transient institutional investors, defined as institutions with short investment horizons and high portfolio turnover, significantly reduce their holdings in a restating firm at least one quarter prior to the quarter of the restatement announcement. While we do not expect that these institutions are less sophisticated than transient institutional investors, their investment styles are such that they are less likely to be actively engaged in information processing to make short-term trading decisions. keywords: accounting; announcement; earnings; end; firms; holdings; information; institutions; investors; journal; market; ownership; q-1; quarter; restatement; trading; transient cache: ajfa-194.pdf plain text: ajfa-194.txt item: #196 of 392 id: ajfa-1948 author: Isaksson, Anders; Islam, Md Mohibul title: The Ex-Dividend-Day Price Behaviour of Blue-Chip Stocks: International Evidence date: 2013 words: 6381 flesch: 65 summary: See Table I in Appendix) and of short-term trading (p-value: 0.000) before the ex-dividend day but no indication of short-term trading (p-value: 0.593) after the ex-day. Ex-dividend day stock price behavior: Discreteness or tax-induced clienteles?. keywords: day; dividend; drop; journal; market; mean; median; prices; stock; trading; value cache: ajfa-1948.pdf plain text: ajfa-1948.txt item: #197 of 392 id: ajfa-1990 author: Sehgal, Prof Sanjay; Rajput, Namita; Dua, Rajeev Kumar title: Futures Trading and Spot Market Volatility: Evidence from Indian Commodity Markets date: 2012 words: 7454 flesch: 48 summary: There are diverse viewpoints relating to stabilisation and destabilisation in spot market prices because of derivative trading. This process will help in stabilizing spot market volatility. keywords: commodities; commodity; effect; futures; futures market; futures trading; journal; market; market volatility; price; spot; spot market; spot volatility; trading; volatility; volume cache: ajfa-1990.pdf plain text: ajfa-1990.txt item: #198 of 392 id: ajfa-2020 author: Hsu, Chih-Shun; Kung, Fan-Hua; James, Kieran title: An Investigation of Auditors’ Responsibility for Fraud Detection in Taiwan date: 2013 words: 11365 flesch: 65 summary: They co rom fraud d h century, is tancy profe respondents nent to note general ex ed ignorance ch Method er the accou investigatin ations gap w o examine th e auditor s y audit exam e auditor sh xamination e auditor sh among empl e auditor sh at the manag e auditor sh the irregular e auditor sh e and fair vie e auditor s ated and co n affiliated e auditor sh s embezzlem e auditor sh as petty cash employees b e auditor ations and ing of emp onfirm the detection as s not a view ession and a s who want e also that s xhortations e gap. The W of the two cant differen med that the and Castell e purpose o consisting 0 public co al analysts ers of financ of 964 ques spondents w ation, 340 o group, and rs surveyed y satisfactor gation Resu respondent ional invest espect to ac ed opinions nce of opin vey results a ent response which exa dent groups . knowledged ding the inve ternative res e level of a not have bac n’t know (c ore, the fiv ulated by us eft hand sid made of Whitney tes apparent dif Wilcoxon-Ma population nces were fo e auditors a lan, 1989) keywords: 052x; asian; ation; audit; auditing; auditors; detect; finance; financial; fraud; gap; group; ink.org/ajfa; issn; journal; material; ment; onsibility; public; respons; responsib; stateme; study; taiwan; vol cache: ajfa-2020.pdf plain text: ajfa-2020.txt item: #199 of 392 id: ajfa-2022 author: A M, Dr. Rekha Kala; Pandey, Dr Shyam Lal Dev title: A Feasibility Analysis of Black-Scholes-Merton Differential Equation Model for Stock Option Pricing by Using Historical Volatility : With Reference to Selected Stock Options Traded in NSE date: 2012 words: 10549 flesch: 66 summary: In dustries Lim Rs.15586.76 ustries Limi italization o difference k options n price % 1 4 1 1 ntly from th e in prices k the accurac es as the nu rupee prices r put option ption shows prediction t option. nd Gonedes, r stock prices (1980). keywords: 052x; asian; black; cal; case; data; date; days; difference; expiry; finance; ink.org/ajfa; issn; journal; market; merton; model; nse; option; price; pricing; rate; risk; scholes; std; stock; table; time; value; vol; volatility; yield cache: ajfa-2022.pdf plain text: ajfa-2022.txt item: #200 of 392 id: ajfa-2027 author: Maheshchandra, Joshi Prashant title: Long Memory Property In Return and Volatility: Evidence from the Indian Stock Markets date: 2012 words: 4393 flesch: 61 summary: Therefore, long memory models such as FIGARCH are recommended for volatility forecasting. Section 2 presents a brief review of previous work on long memory property in return and volatility. keywords: arfima; journal; market; memory; model; property; return; series; stock; volatility cache: ajfa-2027.pdf plain text: ajfa-2027.txt item: #201 of 392 id: ajfa-2028 author: Udoka, Chris O.; Ogege, Samson title: Public Debt and the Crisis of Development in Nigeria Econometric Investigation date: 2012 words: 4889 flesch: 53 summary: On the concept of debt burden, Cohen (1992) posited that external debt does not constitute a burden when contracted loans are optimally deployed and the returns on investment is enough to meet maturing obligations, while the surviving of the domestic economy is not undermined. The debt crisis has also generated controversy as to the exact meaning of debt and external debt (Nzotta, 2004). keywords: burden; debt; development; economic; economy; finance; growth; journal; log; nigeria; variables cache: ajfa-2028.pdf plain text: ajfa-2028.txt item: #202 of 392 id: ajfa-2096 author: Trireksani, Terri title: Accounting and Engineering Students' Perceptions of Good Teaching in Universities date: 2012 words: 7527 flesch: 59 summary: esting” indic undergradu e two remai ores from ac 2.60, respe understand d rovide some d engineeri ments on the portant ind lecturers’ a ndergraduate duate studen tant indicat dicator only in the stude rts to under te students c Asian icant differe e given by t engineering ese three ind ceived the h ounting an and 4.11, r dents are go nitial indica ents for the comparison y the accou he engineeri perceived ceived by th hings very w ng undergra The comp cator showe uate student ining good ccounting a ctively for difficulties s e partial of ing undergr eir work, an icators of ability to exp e students a nts consider tor of goo as moderat ent percepti stand the di consider the n Journal of F ences betwe the enginee g undergrad dicators of g highest score nd engineer respectively oing”, and “ ation that th remaining n of the mea unting unde ing undergr by accoun he engineer well” indicat aduate stude arison of m ed a quite m ts and a sco teaching in and enginee “Motivate s students mi support for raduate stu nd feedback good teac plain as an also conside r the lecture od teaching tely importa ons on the ifficulties th ese two as im Finance & Ac ISSN 19 2012, Vol. -3.95 7 0.000 < 0.01 eptions of g scores on hown in Tab ons from th dents in al dents, excep compariso was the only ergraduate s irst year und r undergradu atistics and e students s s of good te G e ful ack ow nts oing Motiv stude to do t best w 8 3.5 8 1.2 1 5 3 3.4 0 1.2 1 5 53 0.85 0* 0.39 good teachin good teach bles 5a to 5 he descriptiv l good teac pt for the “ n of the m indicator th students, in dergraduate uate student d the compa showed that 340 eaching by g Good Teachi vate ents their work Expl thin ver wel 53 3.8 23 1.0 2 5 5 44 3.8 27 0.9 2 5 5 51 -0.7 95 0.45 ng by year o hing scales o 5c. keywords: 052x; finance; good; graduate; indicato; ink.org/ajfa; issn; mean; scores; students; study; teaching; undergr; vol; work; www.macrothi; year cache: ajfa-2096.pdf plain text: ajfa-2096.txt item: #203 of 392 id: ajfa-2165 author: Rajput, Namita; Kakkar, Ruhi; Batra, Geetanjali title: Futures Trading and Its Impact on Volatility of Indian Stock Market date: 2013 words: 7471 flesch: 50 summary: This paper studies the impact of introduction of index futures on spot market volatility on S&P CNX Nifty using Bi-Variate E-GARCH technique. Pericli and Koutmos (1997) analyse the impact of the US S&P 500 index futures on spot market volatility. keywords: derivatives; finance; futures; futures market; index; index futures; journal; market; model; price; spillover; spot; stock; trading; volatility cache: ajfa-2165.pdf plain text: ajfa-2165.txt item: #204 of 392 id: ajfa-222 author: Sciulli, Nick; Smith, Malcolm; Ross, Phil title: Benchmarking the First Year Accounting Unit: Evidence from Australia date: 2010 words: 5807 flesch: 46 summary: Jones and Sin (2005) found that almost a third of accounting students rated communication skills highly but that more of the non-accounting students placed communication skills first. She found that the variety of accounting students studying introductory accounting caused problems, because academic staff found it problematic to change their teaching styles to teach masses of students with different entry levels. keywords: accounting; benchmarking; case; journal; research; school; staff; students; unit; universities; year cache: ajfa-222.pdf plain text: ajfa-222.txt item: #205 of 392 id: ajfa-2320 author: BOBOYE, AJAYI LAWRENCE title: Capital Flight and Nigeria Economic Growth date: 2012 words: 5243 flesch: 49 summary: Khern and Hague (1987) estimated capital flight from four- sub-Saharan, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda) from 1976 to 1989, using their estimates capital flight may seem small compares to Latina American countries but the burden as a percentage of GPD is higher by 61% of sub- Saharan compared to 22% for Latin American. Abstract This paper provides evidence on the negative impact of the assessment of capital flight on economic growth of Nigeria for 40 years (1970-2009). keywords: capital; capital flight; countries; debt; external; finance; flight; investment; nigeria; study; variables cache: ajfa-2320.pdf plain text: ajfa-2320.txt item: #206 of 392 id: ajfa-2355 author: Amran, Noor Afza title: CEO Succession: Choosing Between Family Member or Outsider? date: 2012 words: 5466 flesch: 61 summary: Noor Afza Amran, PhD School of Accountancy Universiti Utara Malaysia 06010 Sintok Kedah Malaysia E-mail: afza@uum.edu.my Received: Sep. 9, 2012 Accepted: October 22, 2012 Published: December 1, 2012 doi:10.5296/ajfa.v4i2.2355 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v4i2.2355 Abstract Studies discussing on having a family chief executive officer (CEO) or outsider to manage family companies are widely discussed in overseas but little research that actually taking place in Malaysia. More importantly, family companies prefer to have family CEO to manage the company because of strong family cultures, high sense of family unity and belongings within the companies. keywords: business; ceo; companies; company; family; family companies; firm; journal; performance; study; succession; value cache: ajfa-2355.pdf plain text: ajfa-2355.txt item: #207 of 392 id: ajfa-2523 author: Yapa, Prem title: The Oversight Committees in Developing Countries – Public Financial Control and the Expectations Gap – Some Empirical Evidence from Sri Lanka date: 2014 words: 9359 flesch: 42 summary: Abstract This paper examines whether it is possible to implement an effective financial control through public oversight committees and establish public sector accountability and transparency as expected by the general public in Sri Lanka. This paper raises a broad question that is whether it is possible to implement an effective financial control through public oversight committees and establish public sector accountability and transparency as expected by the general public in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. keywords: accounting; accounts; committee; finance; general; government; institutions; lanka; oversight; oversight committee; parliament; public; report; sri; sri lanka cache: ajfa-2523.pdf plain text: ajfa-2523.txt item: #208 of 392 id: ajfa-2541 author: Adam, Anokye Mohammed title: An Evaluation of Intra-Trade Potential in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) date: 2012 words: 9911 flesch: 65 summary: Asian ortant part o r of regiona n Union (M sub-Saharan 10; Haggbl The empiric eral conclus gration in al trade in p ffered from ook at intra yses of all as been der e of attract ance betwee ational trade omic forces ows betwee s. Thus the e as their el can be exp jM nation coun countries t ade flows b ges in transa ding country efore, larger n Journal of F of the acade al blocs trad Martínez-G n Africa ( lade, Jayn al evaluatio sion seems Africa has particular an aggregate b a-country le empirical li rived from N ion betwee en the two e flows to s of the orig en the two s e model pre economic pressed as f ntry j ; usu hat have a between the action costs y usually de r countries Finance & Ac ISSN 19 2012, Vol. www.macrothi emic for nu de potential Galán,Fontou (Keane, Ca ne, Tschirle on of intra-r to be simila s been a fa nd fostering biases as th evel trade p literature ha Newton’s keywords: 052x; africa; asian; ation; countries; country; data; econom; ecowa; export; finance; gravity; ink.org/ajfa; intra; issn; journal; model; panel; potential; study; test; trade; vol; west; www.macrothi cache: ajfa-2541.pdf plain text: ajfa-2541.txt item: #209 of 392 id: ajfa-2558 author: Ahn, Seoungpil; Hong, Gwangheon; Kim, Doseong; Park, Young-Seok title: Valuation of a Holding Company: The Case of SK C&C IPO date: 2012 words: 5116 flesch: 57 summary: Next, our baseline valuation for share holdings is estimated based on the 31.8% ownership of SK C&C on SK holdings and the market capitalization of SK holdings. This intention for future merger will increase the stock price of SK C&C relative to that of SK holdings. keywords: c&c; company; governance; holdings; ipo; krw; market; sk c&c; structure; value cache: ajfa-2558.pdf plain text: ajfa-2558.txt item: #210 of 392 id: ajfa-2629 author: Saeidi, Parviz; Marzban, Azin Malek title: Measuring the Success of Information Systems (IS) from Users’ Point of View Using Goodhue Index date: 2012 words: 4168 flesch: 67 summary: ceptual Mo f the assessm was presen ted this mod f quantitativ ystem point as a conce s in the fiel ve was to m ation system close relatio preliminar eded inform hat this rese mation on th uestions of to measure and users o used. Evaluating n system th ment inform stations an charge. keywords: ation; fit; informa; success; system; task; user; vol cache: ajfa-2629.pdf plain text: ajfa-2629.txt item: #211 of 392 id: ajfa-2641 author: Okpala, Kenneth Enoch title: Total Quality Management and SMPS Performance Effects in Nigeria: A Review of Six Sigma Methodology date: 2012 words: 5795 flesch: 51 summary: TQM implementation eliminated long service queue through prompt service, quality service were rendered and bank customers were satisfied. This will be made easy by adopting the above five broad dimensions of service quality. keywords: accounting; clients; finance; journal; management; methodology; nigeria; performance; quality; service; sigma; smps; total; tqm cache: ajfa-2641.pdf plain text: ajfa-2641.txt item: #212 of 392 id: ajfa-2682 author: Gazor, Hossein; Kohkan, Farhad; Kiarazm, Amene; Rastegari, Hashem title: Impact of Intellectual Capital on Performance in Audit Institutes date: 2013 words: 3786 flesch: 33 summary: Findings show that there is a link between human capital structural capital and relational capital (for H4 and H5). The concept of intellectual capital arises in varied disciplines. keywords: accounting; capital; finance; human; journal; knowledge; management; new; organization; performance cache: ajfa-2682.pdf plain text: ajfa-2682.txt item: #213 of 392 id: ajfa-2762 author: Gelardi, Alexander M. G. title: Value Added Tax and Consumer Spending: A Graphical Descriptive Analysis date: 2012 words: 6066 flesch: 68 summary: As consumer behavior is subject to many factors other than consumption taxes, the graphs will show the three months before the introduction (or rate change), the month of the introduction or rate change and the three months after. Percentage change in retail volume from same month of prior year Here it can be seen that the percentage change in the retail volume from the same month of the prior year is much more substantial for the UK from March to April. keywords: canada; change; rate; retail; tax; vat; volume cache: ajfa-2762.pdf plain text: ajfa-2762.txt item: #214 of 392 id: ajfa-2777 author: Sehgal, Sanjay; Subramaniam, Srividya title: An Empirical Investigation of the Profitability Anomaly in the Indian Stock Market date: 2012 words: 9565 flesch: 74 summary: et pricing te regressions of the mark Rpt – Rft is e return (Rft Rft is the exc error term, cept) is a m sensitivity APM implie returns. The si maly within stocks(P1) e firms are cant which ariation in co e to the con for ROE. keywords: 052x; beta; dividend; factor; fama; finance; firm; french; http://dx; issn; journal; market; payouts; portfolio; pro; returns; risk; size; stock; value; vol cache: ajfa-2777.pdf plain text: ajfa-2777.txt item: #215 of 392 id: ajfa-2787 author: Banimahd, Bahman; Poorzamani, Zahra; Ali Ahmadi, Saeid title: The Value Relevance of Audit report, Auditor Type and Auditor Tenure: Evidence from Iran date: 2013 words: 5884 flesch: 53 summary: Hence, when audit report has value relevance, it can improve decisions of users about rational investment, credit, and etc. The primary and main question of this study is whether audit report, type of auditor and tenure of auditor has value relevance in the emerging capital market of Iran or not. keywords: accounting; audit; auditor; capital; journal; market; relevance; tenure; value; value relevance cache: ajfa-2787.pdf plain text: ajfa-2787.txt item: #216 of 392 id: ajfa-2811 author: Kazemi Lari, Mansooreh; Mardani, Abbas; Aghaeiboorkheili, Mohsen title: Day of the Week Effect, Annual Returns and Volatility of Five Stock Markets in Southeast of Asia date: 2013 words: 4956 flesch: 59 summary: Is there a monthly effect in stock market returns?: Evidence from foreign countries. The day of the week effect patterns on stock market return and volatility: Evidence for the Athens Stock Exchange. keywords: day; effect; finance; indonesia; journal; malaysia; market; returns; stock; thailand; week cache: ajfa-2811.pdf plain text: ajfa-2811.txt item: #217 of 392 id: ajfa-283 author: Sehgal, Sanjay; Pandey, Asheesh title: Equity Valuation Using Price Multiples: A Comparative Study for BRICKS date: 2010 words: 8038 flesch: 55 summary: Equity valuation using historical price multiples In this section we evaluate standalone price multiples to find out which one of them is most efficient in forecasting prices for BRICKS. Some analysts use discounted cash flow (DCF) models to value shares, while others use price multiples such as the price earnings and price-book value ratios. keywords: accounting; drivers; earnings; finance; journal; market; multiples; price; regressions; sales; valuation; value;  ;   cache: ajfa-283.pdf plain text: ajfa-283.txt item: #218 of 392 id: ajfa-2864 author: Hibadullah, Siti Norhafizan; Fuzi, Nursyazwani Mohd; Desa, Auni Fatin Nadia Chiek; Zamri, Farah Izzaida Mohd title: Lean Manufacturing Practices and Environmental Performance in Malaysian Automotive Industry date: 2013 words: 3280 flesch: 38 summary: Improved environmental performance may benefit firms with respect to their consumers such as customer firm identification, customer satisfaction and loyalty leading to improved company image. Keywords: Lean manufacturing, Environmental performance, Performance measurement, Toyota Production System automotive Industry Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2013, Vol. 5, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 463 1. keywords: accounting; automotive; customer; industry; journal; management; manufacturing; performance; practices; production cache: ajfa-2864.pdf plain text: ajfa-2864.txt item: #219 of 392 id: ajfa-2977 author: Khalili Araghi, Maryam; Makvandi, Sara title: Comparing Logit, Probit and Multiple Discriminant Analysis Models in Predicting Bankruptcy of Companies date: 2013 words: 5460 flesch: 66 summary: P ounting and s and also th uld be abl tion of ban stitutions (A informed t t bankruptc nkruptcy pro ruptcy(Arab ls to predict ompositions assified in th models th iate statist bability, log orithms, rec fuzzy logi ding criterio ash manage earch titled tcy of comp with explana profit to cu kruptcy in s and multip is model th hlson model While the 74and 76% discriminant 12 show le-discrimin ion is not h le-discrimin usion study we c s models to was %81, fo model, Could from 55 ba ive high pow sults of Pro ate bankrup nies is %9 nkrupt com pt companie d that Probit 7 0.0010.015X urately estim Estim 0 112 0 35 1 cy in the sa bankrupt co test for com analysis Data e ws the Ra nant regress higher. keywords: 052x; analysis; bankrup; com; finance; ink.org/ajfa; issn; journal; logit; model; nkruptcy; probit; ptcy; ratio; table; vol cache: ajfa-2977.pdf plain text: ajfa-2977.txt item: #220 of 392 id: ajfa-3012 author: Perera, Shrimal; Skully, Michael; Chaudhry, Zahida title: Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability: South Asian Evidence date: 2013 words: 7107 flesch: 45 summary: Thus, we expect South Asian banks will show a negative relationship between credit risk and bank profitability and a positive relationship between liquidity risk and bank profitability. As anticipated, increasing competition among South Asian banks (captured by higher values for the H statistic, in Model 1) exerts negative pressure on bank profitability (Table 5, Panel A). keywords: asian; bank; banking; competition; data; efficiency; journal; profitability; profits; risk; sample; south cache: ajfa-3012.pdf plain text: ajfa-3012.txt item: #221 of 392 id: ajfa-3023 author: Enkhbold, Enerelt; Otgonshar, Batnairamdal title: The Effect of Deposit Insurance on Risk Taking in Asian Banks date: 2013 words: 9151 flesch: 51 summary: The key findings are as follows: Firstly, risk-taking differs across bank size and the pattern of non-linear relationship between risk-taking and bank size changes across bank risks in the presence of explicit deposit insurance. They conclude that the risk-based deposit insurance is unlikely to have an effect on bank risk. keywords: accounting; asian; bank; countries; data; deposit; deposit insurance; finance; insurance; journal; ratio; risk; table; taking; variables cache: ajfa-3023.pdf plain text: ajfa-3023.txt item: #222 of 392 id: ajfa-3119 author: Thrikawala, Sujani Sudhara; Locke, Stuart; Reddy, Krishna title: Corporate Governance – Performance Relationship in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) date: 2013 words: 8806 flesch: 47 summary: MFI performance encompasses both financial performance and outreach. Good governance in terms of strengthening stewardship, achievement of MFIs’ primary objectives and promoting further development of the industry have been asserted as key elements in the literature pertaining to MFI performance. keywords: accounting; board; development; directors; firm; governance; journal; management; mfis; microfinance; performance; relationship; studies cache: ajfa-3119.pdf plain text: ajfa-3119.txt item: #223 of 392 id: ajfa-312 author: Pritam Singh, Gurcharan Singh title: Chinese and Indian Stock Market Linkages with Developed Stock Markets date: 2011 words: 7749 flesch: 57 summary: The findings where stock market indices are co-integrated means that there is a linear combination between the indices that forces these indices to have a long-term equilibrium relationship even though the indices may wander away from each other in the short run. Table 6 below summarise the F-statistics, coefficient of the lagged value of error correction term (ECT) and the t-ratio between pairs of stock market indices of China and India with four major markets. keywords: asian; causality; granger; india; indices; markets; nifty; run; sensex; stock; stock markets; test cache: ajfa-312.pdf plain text: ajfa-312.txt item: #224 of 392 id: ajfa-3174 author: Hsu, Chih-shun; Kuo, Lopin; Chang, Bao-Guang title: Gender Difference in Profit Performance—Evidence from the Owners of Small Public Accounting Practices in Taiwan date: 2013 words: 8034 flesch: 54 summary: Research on women business owners: past trends, a new perspective and future directions. Research on women business owners', in Hagen, O., Rivchun, C., and Donald L. (Ed.), Sexton Women Owned Businesses, Praeger, New York, 183-193. keywords: accounting; business; cpa; cpa firms; female; firms; gender; journal; owners; performance; profit; profit performance; sample; service; study; women cache: ajfa-3174.pdf plain text: ajfa-3174.txt item: #225 of 392 id: ajfa-3210 author: Sharma, Narendra title: Theoretical Framework for Corporate Disclosure Research date: 2013 words: 6041 flesch: 41 summary: Miller and Bahnson (2010) explained that the purpose of accounting theories was to ensure better accounting practice. Another view of accounting theory was the normative view. keywords: accounting; accounting research; accounting theory; agency; disclosure; journal; management; research; theories; theory cache: ajfa-3210.pdf plain text: ajfa-3210.txt item: #226 of 392 id: ajfa-3216 author: Unlu, Ulas title: Evidence to Support Multifactor Asset Pricing Models: The Case of The Istanbul Stock Exchange date: 2013 words: 5068 flesch: 66 summary: H0 = All αi coefficients obtained from multiple factor models are equivalent to zero (αi = 0). Not all αi coefficients obtained from multiple factor models are equivalent to zero (αi ≠ 0). keywords: factor; factor model; finance; french; journal; market; model; pricing; returns; risk; stock cache: ajfa-3216.pdf plain text: ajfa-3216.txt item: #227 of 392 id: ajfa-3233 author: Jamaludin, Azahari; Ahmad, Fais title: Managing Financing Risks in Financial Institutions date: 2013 words: 3541 flesch: 53 summary: The objectives of this research is to understand the various types of business risks attached to different businesses as well as to acknowledge that business risk can be mitigated as well through various methods. Business risk is defined as risk arises out of uncertainty of future events. keywords: banker; business; financing; industry; investor; management; market; result; risk cache: ajfa-3233.pdf plain text: ajfa-3233.txt item: #228 of 392 id: ajfa-3280 author: Alrabei, Ali Mahmoud title: Evaluate the Profitability in Commercial Bank - Comparative Study of Indian and Jordanian Banks date: 2013 words: 6140 flesch: 57 summary: This study implies that high profit banks earn higher return on their assets than that of low profit banks. At the same time high profit banks enjoy lower expenses for their liabilities. keywords: banks; cab; operating; profit ratio; profitability; return; sbi; study cache: ajfa-3280.pdf plain text: ajfa-3280.txt item: #229 of 392 id: ajfa-3333 author: Largani, Mahmoud Samadi; Zamani, Mohsen; Imeni, Mohsen; Kaviani, Meysam title: Determine the Effects of Fundamental Variables and Mass Behaviors in Changes of Stock Price (Evidence from Iran Stock Exchange) date: 2013 words: 5616 flesch: 57 summary: The analysis of statistical tests show that firstly there is statistically a significant relation between stock price bubbles and size of the company at the confidence coefficient of 95 percent; secondly, there is statistically no significant relation between stock price bubbles and industry type of the company. Our results show that there is not significant relation between stock price changes and fundamental hangs. keywords: bubbles; changes; exchange; market; price; relation; stock; tehran; value; variables cache: ajfa-3333.pdf plain text: ajfa-3333.txt item: #230 of 392 id: ajfa-3365 author: Chen, Yugang; Lin, Karen Jingrong title: Information Content of CSI 300 Index Futures during Extended Trading Hours: Evidence from China date: 2013 words: 5999 flesch: 56 summary: First, we provide evidence of information efficiency of the newly incepted futures market in China, adding to the existing knowledge about futures markets in emerging economies such as Hong Kong and Korea (Cheng et al., 2004; Chong et al., 2012; Min & Najand, 1999). 2. Literature Review and Hypothesis Development Information content as well as information efficiency of futures market has attracted enormous academic attentions because prices of futures are usually used as measures of market expectations. keywords: futures; futures market; index; information; market; overnight; return; spot; trading cache: ajfa-3365.pdf plain text: ajfa-3365.txt item: #231 of 392 id: ajfa-3366 author: Joo, Bashir Ahmad title: Analysis of Financial Stability of Indian Non Life Insurance Companies date: 2013 words: 5970 flesch: 50 summary: The analysis of ISI standard benchmark analysis ratio for private sector insurance companies is presented in table 2. However, available literature on insurance sector has neither stated that whether the Indian industry stand in compliance with solvency norms applicable at international levels nor the significant factors have been highlighted which affect financial stability of insurance business and subsequently to solvency position of insurers. keywords: analysis; companies; industry; insurance; insurers; isi; journal; life; ratio; sector; solvency; standard cache: ajfa-3366.pdf plain text: ajfa-3366.txt item: #232 of 392 id: ajfa-3411 author: Huy, Dinh Tran Ngoc title: Beta of Viet Nam Listed Computer and Electrical Company Groups during and after the Financial Crisis 2007-2011 date: 2013 words: 4295 flesch: 58 summary: The using of DFL or degree of financial leverage can be a vital reason for a decrease in asset beta value of 0,44 from equity beta value of 0,72. Statistical results for Vietnam listed Electrical and Electronic Equipment companies Statistic results Equity beta Asset beta (assume debt beta = 0) keywords: asset; beta; companies; equity; firms; market; nam; viet cache: ajfa-3411.pdf plain text: ajfa-3411.txt item: #233 of 392 id: ajfa-3417 author: KAMMOUN, Niazi; CHARFI, Chanez title: The Relevance of the Application of the Neural Approaches in the Premature Detection of the Banking Difficulties: Case of Tunisia date: 2013 words: 9178 flesch: 55 summary: Finally, we have witnessed a considerable improvement on fundamental of good governance among Tunisian banks. In 2010, the part of the bad debts in the total of bank credits remained very high (12.1 %), a value which reveals a big gap if compared with the other emerging countries (Chile 2.7 %, Malaysia 3.4 %, and Turkey 3.2 %). keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; assets; banking; banks; debts; finance; issn; journal; layer; rate; ratio; total; tunisian; vol cache: ajfa-3417.pdf plain text: ajfa-3417.txt item: #234 of 392 id: ajfa-3495 author: Alom, Khairul title: Capital Structure Choice of Bangladeshi Firms: An Empirical Investigation date: 2013 words: 5678 flesch: 52 summary: So it concerns managers in identifying some factors influencing capital structure decision by which they can benefit to make an optimal mix of debt and equity to maximize firm’s value. This study attempts to analyze the impact of firm specific factors on capital structure decision in a systemic manner and provides practical and applicable guideline for anyone who wants to have insight of the topic. keywords: assets; book; capital; debt; finance; firm; journal; leverage; market; structure; value cache: ajfa-3495.pdf plain text: ajfa-3495.txt item: #235 of 392 id: ajfa-3592 author: Takhtaei, Nasrollah; Dezfully, Leila Abbasi title: Impact of Gender upon the Perception and Auditor's Job Satisfaction date: 2013 words: 4107 flesch: 44 summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v5i1.3592 Abstract The purpose of the present research is to investigate the effects of gender upon the level of job satisfaction of auditing professionals as well as examine if gender leads to differences in their perceptions of work related attributes such as advancement opportunities and relations with supervisors. The results point out the effects of gender on 9 factors of the level of job satisfaction in audit firms. keywords: accounting; auditors; females; gender; job; relationship; satisfaction; supervisors cache: ajfa-3592.pdf plain text: ajfa-3592.txt item: #236 of 392 id: ajfa-3637 author: Meisami, Alex title: Zodiac Calendar and Market Returns date: 2013 words: 3724 flesch: 62 summary: Hang Seng Heavenly Stem Mean Median StDev Occurrence Yin Earth 47.22% 46.76% 35.49% 5 Yin Fire -8.89% -9.18% 17.09% 5 Yin Metal 7.43% -10.08% 37.60% 5 Yin Water 20.27% 28.62% 67.56% 4 Yin Wood 37.43% 39.55% 22.07% 4 Yang Earth 18.51% 27.64% 41.96% 5 Yang Fire 20.95% 18.13% 19.84% 5 Yang Metal 25.56% 22.22% 27.94% 5 Yang Water 63.14% 18.98% 146.20% 5 Yang Wood -11.81% -14.10% 34.01% 4 f-value (0.74) p-value (0.6662) Panel B: S&P 500 Twelve Zodiac Animals and Market Returns Panel A: Hang Seng Year Mean Median StDev Occurrence Rat 81.30% 22.89% 163.14% 4 Ox -6.43% -2.01% 52.89% 4 Tiger 3.96% 8.08% 38.66% 4 Rabbit 27.77% 24.92% 47.36% 4 Dragon 15.44% 17.02% 17.18% 4 Snake -15.79% -10.13% 13.41% 3 Horse 7.40% 7.75% 20.55% 4 Sheep 36.20% 41.62% 37.64% 4 Monkey 41.40% 45.22% 33.82% 4 Rooster 34.94% 28.77% 44.66% 4 Dog -1.11% -1.89% 36.21% 4 Boar 34.26% 34.28% 22.71% 4 f-value (0.78) p-value (0.6557) Panel B: keywords: mean; returns; yang; year; yin; zodiac cache: ajfa-3637.pdf plain text: ajfa-3637.txt item: #237 of 392 id: ajfa-3641 author: Wang, Ya-Fang; Huang, Yu-Ting title: The Impact of Internal Control Quality on CFO Turnover date: 2013 words: 3632 flesch: 53 summary: First, it extends previous research into company internal controls. However, no systematic evidence exists on the relationship between internal control quality and CFO turnover. keywords: accounting; cfo; companies; control; earnings; internal; quality; turnover cache: ajfa-3641.pdf plain text: ajfa-3641.txt item: #238 of 392 id: ajfa-368 author: Mirskehary, Soheila; Yaftian, Ali; Wickremasinghe, Guneratne title: Business Ethics and Accounting Students: Australia, South Asia and East Asia date: 2010 words: 5589 flesch: 43 summary: Contrary to the findings of the above surveys, few cross cultural studies on the ethical values of business students found a similarity in the students’ ethical attitudes across countries (Preble and Reichel (1988); Kowalski and Kowalski (1990) Lysonski and Gaidis (1991) Small (1992); Okleshen and Hoyt (1996)). Lysonski and Gaidis (1991) examined the reaction of business students in the USA, Denmark, and New Zealand to a set of ethical scenarios such as coercion and control, conflict of interest, physical environment, paternalism and personal integrity. keywords: accounting; asian; attitudes; business; countries; differences; east; ethics; journal; south; students cache: ajfa-368.pdf plain text: ajfa-368.txt item: #239 of 392 id: ajfa-3687 author: Afkhami Rad, Salman; Locke, Stuart; Reddy, Krishna title: Global Financial Crisis and Role of Ownership Structure on Cost of Capital date: 2013 words: 7247 flesch: 53 summary: Therefore, it is appropriate to consider these two different countries and how company ownership structure influences the cost of capital during a financial crisis. Abstract This paper explores the relationship between ownership structure and cost of capital. keywords: block; capital; cost; financial; insider; journal; new; ownership; ownership structure; performance; relationship; structure cache: ajfa-3687.pdf plain text: ajfa-3687.txt item: #240 of 392 id: ajfa-3725 author: Hokroh, Mohammed title: An Application of the Weak Form of the Efficiency Hypothesis on the Saudi Arabia Stock Market after Tadawul date: 2013 words: 2922 flesch: 58 summary: (2007) proposed that IT may have contributed to the improvements of the SSM efficiency, their study was not aimed at examining Tadawul impact on efficiency. (2010) found that personal confidence in the ability to beat the market is independent of opinion on market efficiency. keywords: efficiency; market; price; ssm; stock; tadawul; test cache: ajfa-3725.pdf plain text: ajfa-3725.txt item: #241 of 392 id: ajfa-3740 author: Fauzi, Fitriya; Basyith, Abdul; Idris, Muhammad title: The Determinants of Capital Structure: An Empirical Study of New Zealand-Listed Firms date: 2013 words: 8256 flesch: 57 summary: Apparently, few studies have been conducted to investigate the capital structure choices in New Zealand firms, and therefore it is necessary to conduct ongoing investigation in the pattern of capital structures. The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) opens more opportunities for New Zealand firms to access funding sources. keywords: capital; capital structure; debt; finance; financing; firms; journal; leverage; new; structure; tax; term; theory; total; zealand cache: ajfa-3740.pdf plain text: ajfa-3740.txt item: #242 of 392 id: ajfa-3759 author: Huy, Dinh Tran Ngoc title: The Volatility of Market Risk in Viet Nam Listed Consumer Good, Wholesale and Retail Company Groups during and after the Financial Crisis date: 2013 words: 5455 flesch: 57 summary: Difference MAX 1,273 0,640 0,6334 MIN 0,391 0,126 0,2657 MEAN 0,653 0,352 0,3002 VAR 0,1069 0,0307 0,0761 Note: Sample size : 9 Comparison among 3 groups of consumer good, wholesale and retail companies In the below chart, we can see among the 3 groups, equity beta value of the wholesale/retail group is the lowest (0,65) while asset beta value of the consumer good group is the lowest (0,34). Statistic results Equity beta Asset beta (assume debt beta = 0) keywords: asset; asset beta; beta; companies; consumer; equity; firms; market; mean; risk; values cache: ajfa-3759.pdf plain text: ajfa-3759.txt item: #243 of 392 id: ajfa-3802 author: Chang, Shen-Ho; Wang, Teng-Shih; Huang, Shaio Yan; Chiu, An-An title: The Relationship between Organization Strategy, Fixed-Assets Investment and Earnings Quality date: 2013 words: 12637 flesch: 47 summary: Regression result shows that in cost leadership strategy firm (Model3), difference between fixed asset turnover ratio and industry mean has significant positive correlation with investment risks. In industry-wise, we find that difference between fixed asset turnover ratio and industry mean plays different roles in two strategies especially we find there is competitive convergence effect in cost leadership strategy firms. keywords: accounting; asset; asset turnover; capital; cost; deviation; firm; industry; investment; investment risks; mean; quality; ratio; risks; standard; strategy; turnover; turnover ratio cache: ajfa-3802.pdf plain text: ajfa-3802.txt item: #244 of 392 id: ajfa-3896 author: Onalo, Ugbede; Lizam, Mohd; Kaseri, Ahmad title: National Budget and Debt as Measures of Public Sector Performance: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria date: 2013 words: 8807 flesch: 48 summary: Methodology The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between budget performance and national debt as measures of public sector performance. The objective of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship between national budget and debt as measures of public sector performance. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; budget; budget performance; debt; deficit; finance; government; issn; journal; measurement; national; nigeria; performance; public; sector; vol cache: ajfa-3896.pdf plain text: ajfa-3896.txt item: #245 of 392 id: ajfa-3945 author: Dash, Mihir; Goel, Ankush title: A Comparison of ITM and OTM Protective-Puts and Covered-Calls date: 2014 words: 4745 flesch: 45 summary: mean stock returns 0.4428% 0.4181% 0.4325% 0.0278 0.4341 stdev stock returns 3.5953% 3.2550% 3.4530% 0.8960 0.1741 skewness stock returns 0.4658 0.2231 0.3643 0.5693 0.2269 kurtosis stock returns 3.3544 2.0320 2.8014 0.6516 0.2116 There were found to be significant differences in the mean stock returns and standard deviation of stock returns for different optimal strategies, but no significant difference in the skewness and kurtosis of stock returns for different optimal strategies. Discriminant analysis of buying ITM and OTM protective-puts on the characteristics of the distribution of underlying stocks Canonical Discriminant Function Standardized Coefficients Unstandardized Coefficients mean stock returns 1.2305 230.9568 stdev stock returns -2.0038 -153.6011 skewness stock returns 0.1405 0.1195 kurtosis stock returns 1.3061 0.2191 (Constant) 3.6477 Values at centroids buy OTM protective-puts 0.3540 buy ITM protective-puts -0.2950 The standard deviation of returns, the kurtosis of returns, and the mean returns of the underlying stock were found to have significant impact on the dominance relation between OTM protective-puts and ITM protective-puts, followed by the skewness of returns of the underlying stock. keywords: buying; itm; otm; protective; returns; stock cache: ajfa-3945.pdf plain text: ajfa-3945.txt item: #246 of 392 id: ajfa-3998 author: Sehgal, Sanjay; Mathur, Shruti title: Cross-Sectional Variation in Stock Price Reaction to Bond Rating Changes: Evidence from India date: 2013 words: 10895 flesch: 57 summary: 4.2.2 Firm characteristic based portfolios The results of relationship of post –event stock returns with pre – event stock returns, magnitude of rating change and business cycle in case of bond rating changes for firm characteristic based portfolios are shown in Table 4. This paper explores the relationship between bond rating change information and stock return behaviour in India. keywords: bond; case; change; downgrades; effect; event; firms; high; journal; post; pre; rating; returns; stock; upgrades cache: ajfa-3998.pdf plain text: ajfa-3998.txt item: #247 of 392 id: ajfa-4005 author: Khalique, Muhammad; Shaari, Jamal Abdul Nassir bin; Isa, Abu Hassan bin Md; Samad, Noridah Binti title: Impact of Intellectual Capital on the Organizational Performance of Islamic Banking Sector in Malaysia date: 2013 words: 2843 flesch: 31 summary: To overcome the scattered opinion about the concept and applications of intellectual capital (Khalique, Shaari, & Isa, 2011b) proposed integrated intellectual capital model (IICM). In a contemporary business environment, intellectual capital is considered as the most critical strategic asset for the success of the organization. keywords: banking; capital; islamic; journal; malaysia; performance; sector cache: ajfa-4005.pdf plain text: ajfa-4005.txt item: #248 of 392 id: ajfa-4025 author: Alam, Nafis title: Macroeconomic Variables, Firm Characteristics and Stock Returns during Good and Bad Times: Evidence from SEA date: 2013 words: 10265 flesch: 57 summary: However, our analysis is based on stock portfolio returns rather than the stock indices return. Our empirical findings showed that the significance relationship between macroeconomic variables and portfolio stock returns were not consistent for both sub-periods. keywords: factors; finance; high; journal; low; market; oil; period; portfolio; price; relationship; return; stock; stock market; stock return; sub; term; variables cache: ajfa-4025.pdf plain text: ajfa-4025.txt item: #249 of 392 id: ajfa-4039 author: Yaacob, Hisham; Shafeek, Fathima; Nahar, Hairul Suhaimi title: Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Shari’ah Based Audit: Implications for the Future of Shari’ah Auditing Labor Market in Brunei date: 2013 words: 6124 flesch: 39 summary: While the characteristics and knowledge expected of shari’ah auditor are well understood, the students are however unsure of the primary objective for shari’ah auditing. The survey aims at gauging undergraduates’ knowledge on shari’ah auditing and their propensity of choosing shari’ah auditor as a prospect career. keywords: 052x; accounting; auditing; auditor; brunei; finance; financial; industry; islamic; journal; shari’ah; students; vol cache: ajfa-4039.pdf plain text: ajfa-4039.txt item: #250 of 392 id: ajfa-407 author: Wickremasinghe, Dr Guneratne title: Volume 1, Nos 1 and 2 date: 2010 words: 529 flesch: -90 summary: Australia Dr Peter J Phillips School of Accounting, Economics University of Southern Queensland, Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2009, Vol. 1, No. 2: E9 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 176 and Finance Australia Dr Michael Brian Cohen School of Economics and Finance Victoria University, Australia Associate Professor Steven Dellaportas School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Deakin University, Australia Assistant Professor Haizhi Wang Stuart School of Business Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Professor Ajay Pandey Finance & Accounting Area Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, India Associate Professor Susela Devi Department of Financial Accounting and Audit University of Malaya, Malaysia Associate Professor Chun Yip Desmond Yuen Department Accounting and Information Management University of Macau, China Dr Anil Mishra School of Economics and Finance University of Western Sydney, Australia Professor Anona Armstrong Centre for International Corporate Governance Research Victoria University, Australia Dr Nada Kulendran School of Economics and Finance Victoria University, Australia Associate Professor Jane Bisman School of Accounting Charles Sturt University, Australia Assistant Professor Seoungpil Ahn Department of Finance and Accounting National University of Singapore, Professor Alan Farley School of Accounting Victoria University, Australia Professor Beverley Jackling School of Accounting Victoria University, Australia Associate Professor Jeffrey Faux School of Accounting Victoria University, Australia Dr Nick Sciulli School of Accounting Victoria University, Australia Dr Lalith Seelanatha School of Accounting Victoria University, Australia Dr Sisira Colombage Department of Accounting and Finance Monash University, Australia Dr Abeyrathna Gunesekarage Department of Accounting and Finance Monash University, Australia Dr Shrimal Perera Department of Accounting and Finance Monash University, Australia Associate Professor Prem Yapa School of Accounting RMIT University, Australia Dr Bruce Berton School of Accounting and Finance University of Dundee, UK Associate Professor Zhenyu Wu Department of Finance and Management Science University of Saskatchewan, Canada Associate Professor Michael J Tomas III School of Business Administration University of Vermont, USA Professor Marc Deloof Louvain School of Management University of Antwerp, Belgium Professor Bahram Adrangi Pamplin School of Business University of Portland, USA Associate Professor Tom Aabo Aarhus School of Business University of Aarhus, Denmark Professor Milind Sathye Discipline of Accounting, Banking and Finance University of Canberra, Australia Dr Shyam Batti School of Accounting & Finance University of Wollongong, Australia Associate Professor Jeremy Berkowitz Department of Finance University of Houston, USA Professor K.C Chen Craig School of Business California State University, USA Associate Professor, Darren Henry School of Economics and Finance La Trobe University, Australia Dr Faruk Balli Department of Economics and Finance Massey University, New Zealand Professor Christoper Wright Commerce Division Lincoln University, New Zealand Dr Samanthala Hettihewa School of Business University of Ballarat, Australia Professor Julie Cotter School of Accounting, Economics and Finance University of Southern Queensland, keywords: accounting; australia; finance; school; university cache: ajfa-407.pdf plain text: ajfa-407.txt item: #251 of 392 id: ajfa-410 author: Sugahara, Satoshi; Coman, Roanne title: Perceived Importance of CPA’s Generic Skills: A Japanese Study date: 2010 words: 10511 flesch: 46 summary: With a questionnaire-based survey, their findings showed that while students tended to be aware of the importance of generic skills in the progress of education and practical experience, they perceived such skills as relatively less important than technical accounting skills. This conclusion is contrasted to the findings of Usoff and Feldmann (1998) where students believed the importance of generic skills was much lower than those of technical accounting skills. keywords: accounting; cpa; education; faculty; groups; importance; japanese; journal; law; practitioners; skill type; skills; study; type cache: ajfa-410.pdf plain text: ajfa-410.txt item: #252 of 392 id: ajfa-4117 author: Chen, Weiju title: Can Corporate Governance Mitigate the Adverse Impact of Investor Sentiment on Corporate Investment Decisions? Evidence from Taiwan date: 2013 words: 10769 flesch: 53 summary: -139 368,091 CF (million) 1,730 9,041 -26,494 211 229,476 SIZE (million) 17,799 585,940 32 3,827 1,380,532 Q 0.73 0.74 -0.63 0.55 11.82 Panel B: Investor sentiment variables TURN (%) 211.44 194.17 0.07 154.57 1581.29 DACCR (million) -67.13 Unlike the other three indices which evaluate investment sentiment based on indirect data, CCI directly measures the degree to which investors are optimistic about the future. keywords: board; decisions; finance; firm; governance; index; investment; investment decisions; investor; investor sentiment; journal; managers; sentiment; stock; value; variables cache: ajfa-4117.pdf plain text: ajfa-4117.txt item: #253 of 392 id: ajfa-4121 author: Luke, Oluwagbuyi Olusola; Adaramola, Anthony Olugbenga title: Triple Bottom Line Reporting: An Assessment of Sustainability in Banking Industry in Nigeria date: 2013 words: 4637 flesch: 37 summary: Triple bottom line reporting is hinged on improved relationship among stakeholders; especially employees, customers and investors. It is believed that the adoption of triple bottom line reporting in banking firms in Nigeria will lead to the enhancement of their reputations and brands. keywords: banking; banking industry; industry; line; nigeria; reporting; sustainability; triple; value cache: ajfa-4121.pdf plain text: ajfa-4121.txt item: #254 of 392 id: ajfa-4132 author: Serenjianeh, Mikaeil Mansouri; Takhtaei, Nasrollah title: Abnormal Audit Fees and Stock Price Synchronicity: Iranian Evidence date: 2013 words: 4935 flesch: 53 summary: Therefore, the three variables of ABFEE, logAsset, FIRMAGE has a significant impact on stock price synchronicity, by contrast, table 6 shows that the quality of the audit firm and the logarithm of the number of firms in the industry, has Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2013, Vol. 5, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 251 no relationship with stocks prices synchronicity. Regression analysis shows that the determining factors in stock price synchronicity variables explain 0.257 % of variation of dependent variable. keywords: audit; fees; information; market; price; price synchronicity; stock; stock price; synchronicity cache: ajfa-4132.pdf plain text: ajfa-4132.txt item: #255 of 392 id: ajfa-4133 author: Ahmad, Fawad title: Ownership Structure and Non-Performing Loans: Evidence from Pakistan date: 2013 words: 7810 flesch: 50 summary: Bank ownership and performance: Does politics matter? They further proved that capital regulation, bank risk, restriction on bank activities and deposit insurance policies depends on the banks ownership structure. keywords: banks; control; finance; journal; npls; ownership; results; risk; riskiness; structure; study cache: ajfa-4133.pdf plain text: ajfa-4133.txt item: #256 of 392 id: ajfa-4160 author: Wilson, Linus Theodore title: Valuing the First Negotiated Repurchase of the TARP Warrants date: 2014 words: 3910 flesch: 62 summary: That legislation mandated the purchase of warrants in banks which sold assets to the U.S. Treasury. On October 13, 2009, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) to buy warrants and preferred stock in healthy banks. keywords: dividend; price; stock; volatility; warrants; yield cache: ajfa-4160.pdf plain text: ajfa-4160.txt item: #257 of 392 id: ajfa-431 author: Kung, Fan-Hua; Cheng, Chia-Ling; James, Kieran title: Effects of Corporate Ownership Structure on Earnings Conservatism date: 2010 words: 7979 flesch: 45 summary: We employ the concept of conditional conservatism to define earnings conservatism and adopt empirical models developed by Basu (1997) and Ball and Shivakumar (2005) to measure the degree of earnings conservatism. Consistent with prior studies, this point demonstrates that the companies with state and concentrated ownership structures are more likely to depend on private communication to reduce information asymmetry and to resolve agency problems internally, thereby creating a low demand for earnings conservatism. keywords: accounting; china; companies; company; conservatism; earnings; earnings conservatism; finance; information; journal; ownership; shareholders; shares; state; structure; total cache: ajfa-431.pdf plain text: ajfa-431.txt item: #258 of 392 id: ajfa-4310 author: Alphonse, Pascal; Nguyen, Thu Hang title: Momentum Effect: Evidence from the Vietnamese Stock Market date: 2013 words: 9192 flesch: 60 summary: The less individualistic investors who act less like the overconfident/self-attribution biased ones tend not to make investment decisions that produce momentum profits and reversals in long-term horizons. Departing from JT (1993)’s argument, on the assumption that the mean returns of individual stocks are stationary, Conral and Kaul (1998) assert that momentum profits are mainly driven by the cross-sectional variation in mean returns, that is, momentum reflects compensation for risk. keywords: asian; average; finance; journal; market; momentum; percent; period; profits; returns; stock; week; wml cache: ajfa-4310.pdf plain text: ajfa-4310.txt item: #259 of 392 id: ajfa-4326 author: Neupane, Biwesh title: Efficiency and Productivity of Commercial Banks in Nepal: A Malmquist Index Approach date: 2013 words: 9859 flesch: 57 summary: NMB 0.902 1.000 0.902 1.000 1.000 Mean 1.052 0.997 1.055 0.999 0.998 Note: TFCH – Total Productivity Change, EFFCH – Efficiency Change, TECHCH- Technology Change, PECH- Pure Efficiency Change, SECH- Scale Efficiency Change Regression analysis of efficiency scores and determinants of efficiency With the objective to analyze the determinants of bank efficiency, regression analysis is conducted. It also reports that the decline in efficiency change is due to decline in both pure efficiency change and scale efficiency change. keywords: bank; banking; change; commercial; efficiency; efficiency change; finance; index; journal; limited; malmquist; nepal; period; productivity; scale; table; total cache: ajfa-4326.pdf plain text: ajfa-4326.txt item: #260 of 392 id: ajfa-4328 author: Joshipura, Mayank Harshvadan; Unnisa, Nusrathunnisa title: Market Reaction to Bonus Announcement in Post Global Financial Crisis Era: Evidence from India date: 2013 words: 4831 flesch: 53 summary: While MCAR remains statistically significant for the remaining length of announcement window post announcement day (AD+1 to AD+10), it fizzles out at a steady pace with MCAR of 1.41% on AD+10 and only 44 out of 74 firms with positive MCAR value compared to 2.18% MCAR with 55 firms with positive MCAR value on AD+1. However, several studies, both in developed and developing markets, report significant positive abnormal returns on and surrounding announcement and effective days. keywords: announcement; bonus; day; journal; market; returns; stock cache: ajfa-4328.pdf plain text: ajfa-4328.txt item: #261 of 392 id: ajfa-4336 author: Wang, Chi-Chen; Lin, Yueh-Ju; Hsu, Yunsheng title: The Initial Going-concern of Delisting Firms: An Application of Proportional Hazard Model date: 2013 words: 8185 flesch: 52 summary: We construct a survival period model for financial crisis firms, covering from the time IGCO issued till delisting. Important factors causing the higher rate of delisting risk include shorter listing years, lower rate of retained earnings to total assets, lower rate of market value of equity to total debts, and higher rate of pledged shares of directors’ and supervisors’ within 7.5 quarters after the IGCO issued, the number of delisting firms reaches its peak, consistent with the existence of self-fulfilling prophecy. keywords: accounting; delisting; firms; hazard; igco; model; period; rate; ratio; sample; survival; time; total cache: ajfa-4336.pdf plain text: ajfa-4336.txt item: #262 of 392 id: ajfa-4501 author: Lai, Yung-Yu; Chang, Fu-Hsing title: Audit Premium, Brand Name Reputation, and Industrial Specialist: An Empirical Study of Private Universities and Colleges in Taiwan date: 2013 words: 10059 flesch: 59 summary: In the past, audit fees were usually collected by questionnaire survey method. Firstly, the most important significance in the study, different from prior researches in which audit fees are paid by the client, we collect the unique data that audit fees are paid by the MOE. keywords: accounting; audit; audit fees; colleges; fees; firms; industry; proxy; ratio; risks; specialist; total; universities; variable cache: ajfa-4501.pdf plain text: ajfa-4501.txt item: #263 of 392 id: ajfa-4510 author: Govindan Nair, Saji Thazhungal title: Time Varying Macroeconomic Risk and Industry Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from India date: 2013 words: 7042 flesch: 52 summary: Bivariate GARCH M model of Fang and Miller (2002) measured the time varying conditional variances of stock market returns and currency depreciation in five emerging East Asian markets. Abstract This paper searches further evidence for the relation between the time varying macroeconomic conditions and stock returns in India using monthly data during the post 2000 period. keywords: economic; factors; finance; india; industry; journal; market; rate; returns; sector; stock; stock returns; study; time; variables cache: ajfa-4510.pdf plain text: ajfa-4510.txt item: #264 of 392 id: ajfa-4527 author: Saleh, Mousa Mohammed; Al Amaideh, Ziad Odeh; Baniatta, Haitham Mahmoud; Alrjoub, Ashraf Mohammad title: The Reflection of Applying New Developed Approaches in Accounting Information System on Investment and Credit Decisions in commercial banks in Aqaba Special Economic Zone date: 2014 words: 6688 flesch: 37 summary: organization employs modern methods to develop the skills of interaction between users of accounting information systems and those systems 3.19 1.10 1.58 0.12 9. electronic devices available to the Bank are of a high efficiency 4.01 1.01 9.27 0.00 Total 3.96 0.47 18.88 0.00 Hypothesis 2: Banks benefits from modern accounting information systems in credit and investment decision-making in commercial banks operating in the Aqaba Special economic zone. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v6i1.4527 Abstract This study aimed at investigating the applicability of applying commercial banks in Aqaba to the modern methods of accounting information systems in its accounting and usefulness of such data when making decisions related to the interests of the banks and their customers credit and investment interests and achieve client satisfaction, and if there are differences between those banks in the application of those regulations and the degree of utilization. keywords: accounting information; accounting systems; banks; credit; information systems; investment; mean; methods; study cache: ajfa-4527.pdf plain text: ajfa-4527.txt item: #265 of 392 id: ajfa-4533 author: Albaity, Mohamed Shikh; Ho Sel Chuan, Arison title: Internationalization and Capital Structure: Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms date: 2013 words: 6188 flesch: 45 summary: Similarly, in confirming Aggarwal and Kyaw (2010) Lin and Hung (2012) compared the capital structure of electronic firms for domestic as well as international firms in Taiwan for 10 years. They found those leverage and dividend payouts are negatively related for international firms while the opposite is true for domestic firms. keywords: capital; debt; finance; firms; international; journal; malaysia; ratio; relationship; structure; theory cache: ajfa-4533.pdf plain text: ajfa-4533.txt item: #266 of 392 id: ajfa-456 author: Shyu, Jonchi; Sun, Hsin-Ming title: Do Institutional Investors Herd in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Market date: 2010 words: 9551 flesch: 43 summary: The Taiwanese government opened markets for foreign institutional investors in 1983. By 2003, all restrictions on investment positions for foreign institutional investors had been removed. keywords: behavior; day; finance; herding; information; investors; journal; market; securities; stock; taiwan; trades; trading cache: ajfa-456.pdf plain text: ajfa-456.txt item: #267 of 392 id: ajfa-469 author: Parthasarathy, Srikanth title: Price and Volume Effects Associated with Index Additions: Evidence from the Indian Stock Market date: 2011 words: 10405 flesch: 59 summary: 4.4 Price pressure hypothesis The effective day or the actual day of inclusion abnormal stock returns are expected to significantly positive due to the action of index funds. Chen et al (2004) states that greater interest for the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2010, Vol. 2, No. 2: E4 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 57 index stocks causes greater information production. keywords: car; day; index; information; journal; market; period; price; results; return; stocks; volume; window cache: ajfa-469.pdf plain text: ajfa-469.txt item: #268 of 392 id: ajfa-4761 author: Al-Matari, Ebrahim Mohammed; Al-Swidi, Abdullah Kaid; Fadzil, Faudziah Hanim Bt title: The Measurements of Firm Performance’s Dimensions date: 2014 words: 8725 flesch: 56 summary: Microsoft Word - 4761-17484-1-SM-writer2-new-final.doc Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 24 The Measurements of Firm Performance’s Dimensions Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari Faculty of Business and Economics, Ammran University Yemen and Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia E-mail: ibrahim_matri@yahoo.com Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia E-mail: swidi@uum.edu.my Faudziah Hanim Bt Fadzil Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia E-mail: fhanim@uum.edu.my Received: Nov. 8, 2013 And therefore, people who are responsible for running firms must improve firm performance through new plan and procedures to update its operations and transactions during its life cycle. keywords: accounting; asian; assets; business; evidence; finance; financial; firm; governance; journal; management; market; measurement; ownership; performance; return cache: ajfa-4761.pdf plain text: ajfa-4761.txt item: #269 of 392 id: ajfa-4783 author: Colot, Olivier; Bauweraerts, Jonathan title: Is Good Governance a Driver of Family Firm Performance? date: 2014 words: 5530 flesch: 50 summary: Firstly, family governance refers to the function of control but also to the function of leadership through the strategy-making process. Secondly, family governance is composed of three principal components: the family, the board of director, and the top management. keywords: accounting; board; family; family firms; finance; firms; governance; journal; performance; practices cache: ajfa-4783.pdf plain text: ajfa-4783.txt item: #270 of 392 id: ajfa-4821 author: Krylov, Sergey Ivanovich title: Theoretical Aspects of Economic Balanced Scorecard Analysis date: 2014 words: 5882 flesch: 33 summary: Concluding remarks To complete the treatment of the applied strategic analysis we draw a number of conclusions: applied strategic analysis (ASA) may be considered as a new lead of scientific research and practical application in the field of strategic organization management; ASA concept emerged from the BSC concept development arising the need to transform a financial analysis of the organization activity into a broader and complex concept; ASA is a BSC indicators research instrument and assumes their comparative assessment, variance diagnostics and forecast; ASA comprises four basic leads: financial indicators analysis, customer indicators analysis, internal business-processes indicators analysis and training and personnel development indicators analysis; ASA concept may evolve into specific methods, economic-mathematic models and software to be practically applied. (1) Where R is a sum of the ASA elements; i is an index of the basic ASA leads: 1 is financial indicators analysis, 2 is customer indicators analysis, 3 is internal business-processes analysis, 4 is training and personnel development analysis; Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 98 j is an index of the basic ASA objectives: 1 is a comparative evaluation of the BSC indicators, 2 diagnostics of the BSC indicators divergence, 3 is BSC indicators forecast. keywords: analysis; bsc; business; customer; development; indicators; indicators analysis; new; products; sales cache: ajfa-4821.pdf plain text: ajfa-4821.txt item: #271 of 392 id: ajfa-4830 author: Bi, Zohra; Yousuf, Abdullah; Dash, Mihir title: A Study on Options Pricing Using GARCH and Black-Scholes-Merton Model date: 2014 words: 5262 flesch: 58 summary: The present study applies the GARCH (1, 1) model to estimate the volatility, and applies this estimated volatility to calculate option prices with the help of Black-Scholes-Merton model. Keywords: GARCH model, Black-Scholes-Merton model, Option prices, Volatility Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 425 1. keywords: day; difference; garch; model; option; price; pricing; stock; volatility cache: ajfa-4830.pdf plain text: ajfa-4830.txt item: #272 of 392 id: ajfa-4893 author: Kengatharan, Lingesiya; Kengatharan, Navaneethakrishnan title: The Influence of Behavioral Factors in Making Investment Decisions and Performance: Study on Investors of Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka date: 2014 words: 7444 flesch: 45 summary: Waweru et al. (2008, p.37) identify stock investment decisions that an investor can be impacted by the others: buying, selling, choice of stock, length of time to hold stock, and volume of stock to trade. Most of the variables from all factors have moderate impacts whereas anchoring variable from heuristic factor has high influence and choice of stock variable from herding factor has low influence on investment decision. keywords: decisions; factor; finance; herding; influence; investment; investment performance; investors; market; performance; stock; variables cache: ajfa-4893.pdf plain text: ajfa-4893.txt item: #273 of 392 id: ajfa-5065 author: Gelardi, Alexander title: Value Added Tax and Inflation: A Graphical and Statistical Analysis date: 2014 words: 6235 flesch: 72 summary: Since the rate had been dropping prior to the change in VAT rate and continued to drop after the change, it cannot be claimed that the change had any differential effect. The results from both the UK and Canada indicate that a major change in VAT rates would have an inflationary impact, whereas a minor change would not. keywords: canada; change; cpi; increase; rate; tax; vat cache: ajfa-5065.pdf plain text: ajfa-5065.txt item: #274 of 392 id: ajfa-5085 author: Basuony, Mohamed A. K.; Mohamed, Ehab K. A. title: Determinants of Internet Financial Disclosure in GCC Countries date: 2014 words: 7564 flesch: 49 summary: Additional issues and challenges for IFR include possible errors in the extraction or re-keying process, which may affect the reliability and integrity of the financial information; Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP) implications of IFR; the use of the corporate websites for many diverse purposes, which may make the location of financial information difficult; and the acceptability of Internet financial reports as alternatives to hard copy annual reports among users of corporate financial information (Laswad et al., 2000). Hence, to ensure equitable access to financial information it will be necessary to ensure that the information being reported through corporate websites is also provided through other media of financial information disclosure (McCafferty, 1995). keywords: accounting; companies; disclosure; et al; finance; firms; ifr; information; internet; journal; reporting cache: ajfa-5085.pdf plain text: ajfa-5085.txt item: #275 of 392 id: ajfa-5156 author: Kim, Haksoon title: Ownership Volatility and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Korean Firms date: 2014 words: 3274 flesch: 52 summary: Using the five year ownership volatility variables from 2005 till 2009, the paper shows a positive relationship between foreign ownership volatility and the firm performance of sample firms in Korea. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find a positive relationship between foreign ownership volatility and firm performance. keywords: finance; firm; journal; ownership; performance; relationship; volatility cache: ajfa-5156.pdf plain text: ajfa-5156.txt item: #276 of 392 id: ajfa-5159 author: Wang, David Han-Min; Huynh, Quang Linh title: The Role of Corporate Governance in the Link between Management Accounting System and Firm Performance date: 2014 words: 8211 flesch: 37 summary: Abstract This research attempts to explore the causal relationships among corporate governance structure, the adoption of management accounting systems and firm performance by applying the directed acyclic graph model. Especially, it discusses and uses Sobel’s procedure and the interaction factor to investigate the mediating and moderating roles of corporate governance structure in the association between the adoption of management accounting systems and firm performance, which have been missed in prior studies. keywords: accounting issn; accounting systems; adoption; business; firm; governance; governance structure; journal; level; management accounting; model; performance; research; structure; variable cache: ajfa-5159.pdf plain text: ajfa-5159.txt item: #277 of 392 id: ajfa-5200 author: Nguyen, Chu V. title: Vietnamese Money Supply M1 and Stock Price Behavior date: 2014 words: 6770 flesch: 52 summary: With regard to the short-run dynamic Granger causality between stock price and the money supply, the partial F-statistics in equation (5) reveals is a bi-directional Granger-causality from the money supply to the stock price, i.e., the stock price responds to both the its own lagged changes and the lagged changes of money supply as well. From this logic, some post-Keynesian economists argue that changes in stock prices actually cause changes in money supply M1 and not the other way around. keywords: equity; index; journal; market; money; money supply; policy; price; results; state; stock; stock price; vietnamese cache: ajfa-5200.pdf plain text: ajfa-5200.txt item: #278 of 392 id: ajfa-5212 author: Huang, Cheng-Li; KUO, BIH-YUN title: The Impact of Information Asymmetry and Client Credit on Lending Performance - Taiwan’s Evidence date: 2014 words: 11196 flesch: 53 summary: Compared to the construction and real estate industry, it seems that firms within the electronic and the non-electronic manufacturing industries and wholesale industries (the coefficients are 0.11, 0.06 and 0.24, respectively) prefer to build relationships with high credit risk bank. Compared to privately-held companies, it seems that publicly-held companies (the coefficient is 0.28, and the odds ratio is 1.32) prefer to build relationships with high credit risk banks. keywords: banks; borrowers; credit; credit risk; finance; hccl; information; lending; lending performance; mlbs; msbs; performance; relationships; wobd cache: ajfa-5212.pdf plain text: ajfa-5212.txt item: #279 of 392 id: ajfa-5241 author: A, Balakrishnan title: Multifactor Explanations of CAPM Anomalies: An Evidence for Indian Stock Market date: 2014 words: 10701 flesch: 63 summary: Chan, Karceski, and Lakonishok (1998) take on an empirical work which examines the stock returns’ relation with fundamental factors, technical factors, and macroeconomic factors and they find a significant influence of fundamental factors (accounting based variables) and technical factors (prior returns) in stock returns while poor relation is observed between stocks returns and macroeconomic factors. _____________ 1 Size effect means small stocks (small size companies) outperform big stocks (big size companies) by providing extra-normal returns. He also tests the seasonal effect in stock returns and finds that there is January effect in stock returns and abnormal returns are heavily registered in January. keywords: capm; fama; french; journal; market; model; portfolios; returns; size; stock; value cache: ajfa-5241.pdf plain text: ajfa-5241.txt item: #280 of 392 id: ajfa-5246 author: Ulum, Ihyaul; Ghozali, Imam; Purwanto, Agus title: Intellectual Capital Performance of Indonesian Banking Sector: A Modified VAIC (M-VAIC) Perspective date: 2014 words: 6328 flesch: 54 summary: Apendix: The list of abbreviations code of banks No Code Nama of Bank 1 AGRO Bank Rakyat Indonesia Agro Niaga Tbk 2 BABP Bank ICB Bumi Putra Tbk 3 BACA Bank Capital Indonesia Tbk 4 BAEK Bank Ekonomi Raharja Tbk 5 BBCA Bank Central Asia Tbk 6 BBKP Bank Bukopin Tbk 7 BBNI Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero)Tbk 8 BBNP Bank Nusantara Parahyangan Tbk 9 BBRI Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero)Tbk 10 BBTN Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk 11 BCIC Bank Mutiara Tbk 12 BDMN Bank Danamon Indonesia Tbk 13 BEKS Bank Pundi Indonesia Tbk 14 BJBR Bank Jabar Banten Tbk 15 BJTM Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jawa Timur (Tbk) 16 BKSW Bank Kesawan Tbk Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 123 17 BMRI Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk 18 Keywords: Intellectual Capital Performance (ICP), M-VAIC, VAIC, Indonesian banking sector Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 104 Introduction Despite of the increasing recognition of the importance of Intellectual Capital (IC) in driving firm values and competitive advantages, accounting standards which regulate about IC is still limited. keywords: accounting; asian; banking; banks; capital; efficiency; finance; human; indonesia; journal; performance; vaic; value cache: ajfa-5246.pdf plain text: ajfa-5246.txt item: #281 of 392 id: ajfa-525 author: Tangjitprom, Nopphon title: Preholiday returns and volatility in the Thai stock market date: 2011 words: 5045 flesch: 55 summary: Therefore, the long holiday period will lead to higher abnormal preholiday returns that come with higher volatility. The lags of stock returns are included in the mean equation to account for possible autocorrelation. keywords: equation; garch; holidays; model; preholiday; preholiday returns; returns; stock; volatility cache: ajfa-525.pdf plain text: ajfa-525.txt item: #282 of 392 id: ajfa-5290 author: Magali, Joseph J. title: Variables for Modeling SACCOS in Tanzania date: 2014 words: 7466 flesch: 50 summary: The relationship between independent variables and dependent variable was established by the regression model as follows: ePEPSSPMDPTTPFI +++++++= 6543210 βββββββ The model was expressed as follows: tt TERTSECPRIMGOSCHNOCHILDINCOMEY εβββββββ +++++++= 6443210 keywords: accounting; credit; finance; financial; journal; kenya; management; mfis; model; performance; regression; risk; saccos; savings; tanzania; variables cache: ajfa-5290.pdf plain text: ajfa-5290.txt item: #283 of 392 id: ajfa-5291 author: Isa Dandago, Kabiru; Zaidi, Zulaikha Rabitah title: Impact of Overhead Costs Apportionment on Selling Price Determination in Malaysian Automobile Manufacturing Industry date: 2014 words: 5402 flesch: 44 summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v6i1.5291 Abstract This study aims to examine the impact of overhead cost apportionment on selling price determination in the Malaysian automobile manufacturing industry. Guy (1997: 228) explains that, “choosing the best method of overhead cost apportionment is a topic which has been dealt with many times in management accounting discourse by advocates of different methods which can be used by accountants and controllers to gauge margins and profits”. keywords: accounting; apportionment; automotive; costs; firm; manufacturing; method; overhead; price cache: ajfa-5291.pdf plain text: ajfa-5291.txt item: #284 of 392 id: ajfa-5314 author: Yap, Ben Chin Fook; Mohamed, Zulkifflee; Chong, K-Rine title: The Effects of the Financial Crisis on the Financial Performance of Malaysian Companies date: 2014 words: 5301 flesch: 51 summary: Finally, a comparison is made to see whether there is a direct link between company financial performance and the financial crisis that started in 2007/2008. A comparison is made to see whether there is a direct link between company financial performance and the financial crisis. keywords: analysis; cluster; companies; finance; journal; performance; ratios; study; total; variables cache: ajfa-5314.pdf plain text: ajfa-5314.txt item: #285 of 392 id: ajfa-5326 author: Truong, Ngoc Hong; Le, Minh Uyen title: An Exploratory Study of Herd Behaviour in Vietnamese Stock Market: A New Method date: 2014 words: 5265 flesch: 64 summary: Introduction Herd behavior is a popular phenomenon in financial markets and in stock markets of advanced and emerging markets. In additions, it provides a clearer picture about herd behavior in stock markets. keywords: behavior; deviation; finance; herd; herding; journal; market; method; return; stock cache: ajfa-5326.pdf plain text: ajfa-5326.txt item: #286 of 392 id: ajfa-5372 author: Unnisa, Nusrath; P., Janakiramudu title: Is EVA a Superior Measure of Shareholder Value? Evidence from CNX Nifty Constituent Firms date: 2014 words: 4689 flesch: 52 summary: EVA has been found to have significant correlation with OP, Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 392 NOPAT, EPS, Market Capitalization and MVA figures of firms and the firms have created positive EVA and MVA. Issham Ismail (2006) studied if positive EVA outperform negative EVA in predicting company performance and either the period of study may play a vital role in explaining the variation of the stock return. keywords: accounting; eva; finance; journal; nopat; study; value; variables; year cache: ajfa-5372.pdf plain text: ajfa-5372.txt item: #287 of 392 id: ajfa-5431 author: Hsu, Yunsheng; Wang, Chi-Chen; Han, Tzeu-Chen title: The Impacts of Corporate Governance, Audit System to Business Failure of Going-concern Firms date: 2014 words: 7177 flesch: 51 summary: This means, based on company survival period, 36% of national listed companies have an average survival period until 19th to 23rd quarter (approx. The reason for this diversification in results is self fulfilling prophecy implies companies will fail in the Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 309 immediate years after the issuance of going concern suspect, but the actual process for a company to go from normal operations to company failure is much more complex. keywords: accounting; companies; company; concern; delist; failure; journal; model; period; ratio; study; survival cache: ajfa-5431.pdf plain text: ajfa-5431.txt item: #288 of 392 id: ajfa-5485 author: Liu, Xuan; Pan, Liu title: Prediction of the Moving Direction of Google Inc. Stock Price Using Support Vector Classification and Regression date: 2014 words: 4054 flesch: 56 summary: b 2.2 Kernel and optimization of kernel parameters Epsilon-SVR in LIBSVM package, which is developed by Chang et al (2011) and is currently one of the most widely used SVM, was employed for stock price prediction in this study. However, this does not mean that moving trends >15 trading days will always be good for stock price prediction, as we also found that the trends within 45 trading days had the similar prediction performance as that within 15 trading days. keywords: analysis; classifier; moving; prediction; price; stock; svc; svr; trading cache: ajfa-5485.pdf plain text: ajfa-5485.txt item: #289 of 392 id: ajfa-5486 author: Muhammad, Noor; Scrimgeour, Frank title: Stock Returns and Fundamentals in the Australian Market date: 2014 words: 8321 flesch: 54 summary: Given the strong relations of market financial performance measures and stock returns, future studies should focus on ratio and performance measures that are related to financial risk and their impact on market rate of return. The panel data analysis shows that market based financial performance measures can better explain stock price variance compare to accounting based measures of financial performance. keywords: accounting; analysis; company; finance; financial; firm; investment; journal; market; measures; model; performance; ratio; return; stock; value cache: ajfa-5486.pdf plain text: ajfa-5486.txt item: #290 of 392 id: ajfa-5505 author: Huang, Cheng-Li; Kuo, Bih-Yun title: The Impact of Credit Rating, Ownership and Relationships on Loan Spreads-Taiwan’s Evidence date: 2014 words: 14829 flesch: 53 summary: Due to bank credit officers requiring the borrower to provide financial statements for the past three years as an important basis for credit ratings, therefore the corresponding empirical periods are 2003-2008 for borrowers. 17.Coleman et al. (2002) used the capital adequacy ratio, the ratio of cash to total assets, and the loans to deposits ratio as a proxy for bank risk. keywords: banking; banks; borrowers; borrowing; companies; credit; credit risk; creditor banks; finance; foreign; hccl; holding; journal; lending; loan spreads; ratio; relationships; state; table; wobd cache: ajfa-5505.pdf plain text: ajfa-5505.txt item: #291 of 392 id: ajfa-5518 author: Lin, Yueh-Ju title: The Relation between Auditor Switching and Self-fulfilling Prophecy Effect: The Bivariate Probit Model date: 2014 words: 7624 flesch: 54 summary: Similarly, in equation (15) for auditor switching model, another endogenous variable for delisting is used to test its effect on auditor switching as stated in the following recursive bivariate probit model to estimate equation (14) and (15). ),,4,,,,,( FINANCESIZEBLOSSAGERGCQIGCQSWITCHfDELIST = (12) ),,4,,1( FINANCESIZEBAGEIGCQYfSWITCH = (13) Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 376 ),,4,,,,( FINANCESIZEBLOSSAGERGCQIGCQfDELIST = (14) ),,4,,1,( FINANCESIZEBAGEIGCQYDELISTfSWITCH = (15) [1.094] [0.848] [1.217] [12.676] [0] � Numbers without any bracket are for the total 557 sample � Numbers in parentheses ( ) are for the sub-sample 34 IGCQ but non-delisting firms ¶ Numbers in square brackets [ ] are for the sub-sample 167 IGCQ but delisting firms Table 4 is a correlation matrix for the delisting firms, auditor switching firms, the predicted and control variables. keywords: accounting; auditor; client; delisting; finance; firms; igcq; journal; market; model; sample; self; switching cache: ajfa-5518.pdf plain text: ajfa-5518.txt item: #292 of 392 id: ajfa-5565 author: Li, Dekui; Song, Liang; Zhang, Zhaoguo title: Does the Relationship between Accounting Disclosure and Bank Loan Contracts Vary with Borrower Characteristics? Evidence from Emerging Markets date: 2014 words: 6257 flesch: 51 summary: We find that the effects of accounting disclosure on bank loan contracting terms such as the loan size, the loan maturity, and the loan spread, are more significant for borrowers with smaller size, higher leverage, lower profitability, lower tangibility, less diversity, younger age, and less lending Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 441 relationship. These results suggest that the relationship between accounting disclosure and bank loan contracting terms are more pronounced for firms with higher credit risk. keywords: accounting disclosure; bank loan; effects; loan; loan contracting; loan maturity; loan size; loan spread cache: ajfa-5565.pdf plain text: ajfa-5565.txt item: #293 of 392 id: ajfa-5591 author: Rajput, Namita; Chopra, Kamna; Oberoi, Shelly title: Efficiency of Foreign Banks Operating in India: DEA Analysis date: 2014 words: 4785 flesch: 52 summary: Trends of Efficiency Scores of PSBs, Private Sector Banks and Foreign banks Hypothesis 2: Efficiency measures have resulted in higher efficiency level of each individual banking unit of foreign sector banks. Hypothesis 2: Efficiency measures have resulted in higher efficiency level of each individual banking unit of foreign sector banks. keywords: banking; banks; dea; efficiency; fbs; financial; india; journal; performance; sector cache: ajfa-5591.pdf plain text: ajfa-5591.txt item: #294 of 392 id: ajfa-5695 author: Kumar, Gaurav title: Determinants of Readability of Financial Reports of U.S.-Listed Asian Companies date: 2014 words: 7007 flesch: 49 summary: Over the last six decades or do, annual report readability has been examined in the context of Australian companies (Lewis et al., 1986; Parker, 1982; Pound, 1981), Canada (Courtis, 1986), the UK (Jones, 1988), and the U.S. (Pashalian and Crissy, 1952; Smith and Smith, 1971; Li, 2008). Discussion of annual report readability, current earnings, and earnings persistence. keywords: accounting; asian; companies; culture; journal; readability; reports; research; results; secrecy; table; variable cache: ajfa-5695.pdf plain text: ajfa-5695.txt item: #295 of 392 id: ajfa-5822 author: Shi, Kai; Nie, Li title: Is Temporary Trading Halt Mechanism for New Shares on The First Day of Trading Conducive to Curbing Speculations? date: 2014 words: 4616 flesch: 50 summary: In order to take precautions against the risk of newly listed shares on the first-day of trading as well as cooperate with IPO System Reform, SZSE made a bold move which stressed direct executive interference on IPO shares’ first day performance and released “Notice on Further Optimizing the Temporary Trading Halt Mechanism for Newly-listed Shares during First-day Trading” (the Notice), highlighting the role of Trading Halt Mechanisms. First, under the new scheme, transactions about newly-listed shares will be halted for one hour if the price volatility relative to the opening price by as much as 10% during its first trading day. keywords: day; diff; halt; ipo; matching; mean; price; shares; trading; treatment cache: ajfa-5822.pdf plain text: ajfa-5822.txt item: #296 of 392 id: ajfa-5884 author: Ouezzani, Mohamed Rachid; Alami, Youssef title: The Compliance of Methods of Implementation of IFRS: Study of the Impact on the Relevance of Accounting Information date: 2014 words: 8796 flesch: 61 summary: 32,01 0,0000 496,97 0,0000 72% 1,92 2012 5,35 12,51 0,0000 0,64 6,46 0,0000 0,97 29,54 0,0000 464,21 0,0000 70% 1,97 µ Before 0,68% µ After 82,25% Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 234 Table 10. 0,9620 0,20% 2,12 2001 -1,32 keywords: 0,0000; accounting; accounting information; accounting issn; approach; countries; iasb; ifrs; implementation; method; model; relevance; results; value cache: ajfa-5884.pdf plain text: ajfa-5884.txt item: #297 of 392 id: ajfa-5901 author: Rasekhi, Hamid; Azarberahman, Alireza; Azarberahman, Jalal title: The Effective Factors in Abnormal Error of Earnings Forecast-In Case of Iran date: 2014 words: 5200 flesch: 47 summary: According to the linear regression equation in 2010, the more the firm size, the more the abnormal error of earnings forecast decreases; whereas in years of 2011, 2012 and 2013 the more the firm size, the more the abnormal error of earnings forecast increase too. Published: December 1, 2014 doi:10.5296/ajfa.v6i2.5901 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ ajfa.v6i2.5901 Abstract Purpose: the main purpose of this research is to examine the effective factors in abnormal error of earnings forecast. keywords: accounting; age; earnings; earnings forecast; error; firm; forecast; information cache: ajfa-5901.pdf plain text: ajfa-5901.txt item: #298 of 392 id: ajfa-5910 author: Takhtaei, Nasrollah title: Relationship between Firm Age and Financial Leverage with Dividend Policy date: 2014 words: 4449 flesch: 53 summary: To investigate the linear or non-linear relationship between company age and dividends, the square and the cube of the company age in empirical model of the research have been used. Considering what has been mentioned, the hypotheses in this study have been designed as follows and will be tested: H1: there is a significant relationship between dividend policy and company age. keywords: age; companies; company; company age; dividend; leverage; relationship; study cache: ajfa-5910.pdf plain text: ajfa-5910.txt item: #299 of 392 id: ajfa-5975 author: Jaffar, Kalsoom; Mabwe, Kumbirai; Webb, Robert title: Changing Bank Income Structure: Evidence from Large UK Banks? date: 2014 words: 8141 flesch: 48 summary: Due to the 2007-2010, financial crisis consumer confidence fell to a record low and in the process reduced consumer demand for loans which ultimately reduced banks interest income as from 2008. Deregulation which aimed to increase competition and profitability of banks dramatically changed characteristics of the bank balance sheet, from the types of assets bank hold to how they fund themselves to the source of bank income. keywords: accounting; activities; banking; banks; finance; income; increase; interest; interest income; journal; risk cache: ajfa-5975.pdf plain text: ajfa-5975.txt item: #300 of 392 id: ajfa-6000 author: Soheilyfar, Fatemeh; Tamimi, Mohammad; Ahmadi, Mohammad Ramezan; Takhtaei, Nasrollah title: Disclosure Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Iran date: 2014 words: 4453 flesch: 45 summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v6i2.6000 Abstract This study explores the relationship between disclosure quality and corporate governance in Tehran stock exchange (TSE). On the other hand, the measure of disclosure quality calculated by the Stock Exchange Organization (SEO) has been used as a proxy for disclosure quality. keywords: board; disclosure; quality; relationship; variable; − − cache: ajfa-6000.pdf plain text: ajfa-6000.txt item: #301 of 392 id: ajfa-6010 author: Abbasi, Ebrahim; Sadat Hoseini, Hanieh; Mohammadzadeh, Amir title: Evaluation of Return Mean and Stock Surplus Return Mean with Two Approaches of Traditional Risk and Downside Risk date: 2014 words: 5463 flesch: 63 summary: And (Harvey,C.R, 2002). tested downside risk indexes in mediated and non-mediated conditions. They suggested that downside risk indexes determine the conditions of developing markets better. keywords: beta; capm; downside; journal; market; mean; return; risk; semi; statistic; stock; test; variance cache: ajfa-6010.pdf plain text: ajfa-6010.txt item: #302 of 392 id: ajfa-6021 author: Wang, Nan-Yu; Chen, Sen-Sung; Huang, Chih-Jen; Yen, Cheng-Hsin title: Mutual Fund Size and Investible Decisions of Variable Life Insurance date: 2014 words: 5105 flesch: 62 summary: This indicates that fund investors tended to redeem funds with strong performance vigorously. Chen, Hung, and Lee (2001) found a negative correlation between fund scale and performance. keywords: fund; group; inflows; investors; performance; relationship; scale; small cache: ajfa-6021.pdf plain text: ajfa-6021.txt item: #303 of 392 id: ajfa-6062 author: Wang, Jim title: Is Stock Price Synchronicity a Measure of Noise or Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence from Audit Pricing Model date: 2014 words: 6652 flesch: 53 summary: However, they found little evidence of SYN measuring informativeness. Using this experimental setting, this study uses an audit pricing model to examine the relation between audit fees and SYN. keywords: .0001; accounting; assets; audit; auditors; fees; market; stock; syn cache: ajfa-6062.pdf plain text: ajfa-6062.txt item: #304 of 392 id: ajfa-6070 author: Rajput, Namita; Joshi, Bharti title: Shareholder Types, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: An Anecdote from Indian Corporate Sector date: 2014 words: 7153 flesch: 46 summary: The second reason is the transfer of new technology and globally tested management practices to the firm, which help in enhancing the efficiency by decreasing operating expenses and generating savings for the firm (Ongore, K'Obonyo and Ogutu, 2011).The presence of corporate ownership has a negative impact on ROE, though insignificant. The author has formulated hypothesis to test if corporate performance varies according to the shareholder structure where the performance of the firm is taken as a function of ownership type. keywords: accounting; companies; corporate; equity; finance; firm; governance; government; journal; ownership; performance; relationship; roe; shareholders; size; structure cache: ajfa-6070.pdf plain text: ajfa-6070.txt item: #305 of 392 id: ajfa-6072 author: KR, Krishna Reddy; Fu, Mingli title: Does Shariah Compliant Stocks Perform Better than the Conventional Stocks? A Comparative Study Stocks Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange date: 2014 words: 6115 flesch: 50 summary: Published: December 1, 2014 doi:10.5296/ajfa.v6i2.6072 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v6i2.6072 Abstract A rapid growth of Islamic finance in the past decades has motivated many investors to focus on Islamic stocks rather than conventional stocks. Since its establishment, investment in Islamic stocks has experienced remarkable growth. keywords: conventional; finance; financial; islamic; journal; performance; portfolio; ratio; results; returns; risk; shariah; stocks cache: ajfa-6072.pdf plain text: ajfa-6072.txt item: #306 of 392 id: ajfa-6108 author: Abd-Mutalib, Hafizah; Jamil, Che Zuriana Muhammad; Wan-Hussin, Wan Nordin title: The Availability, Extent and Quality of Sustainability Reporting by Malaysian Listed Firms: Subsequent to Mandatory Disclosure date: 2014 words: 8642 flesch: 49 summary: Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the availability, extent and quality of Sustainability Reporting (SR) by Malaysian firms subsequent to the mandatory disclosure. Prior to the mandatory disclosure, the level of SR by Malaysian firms are not extensive (Teoh & Thong, 1984), plus poor in quality and low in quantity (Thompson & Zakaria, 2004). keywords: disclosure; et al; extent; firms; industry; journal; malaysian; quality; reporting; social; sustainability cache: ajfa-6108.pdf plain text: ajfa-6108.txt item: #307 of 392 id: ajfa-6133 author: Chen, Zhenxiang; Li, Ming; Song, Liang; Xing, Yanan; Zhang, Zhaoguo title: Accounting Disclosure, Governance Standards and Innovation Activities in Emerging Markets date: 2014 words: 4185 flesch: 51 summary: Our research further analyzes innovation in emerging countries by considering the impact of country-level and firm-level governance standards on the relationship between accounting disclosure and innovation, as measured by R&D. Although the literature has addressed the effects of market disciplines resulted from accounting disclosure on innovation activities, there is little evidence of whether the effects of market disciplines are more important in a country with weaker investor protection and for firms with poor corporate governance. keywords: accounting; disclosure; firm; governance; level; variable cache: ajfa-6133.pdf plain text: ajfa-6133.txt item: #308 of 392 id: ajfa-6244 author: Shyu, Jonchi; Lin, Jia-Chi; Wu, Chen-Kuang title: Determinants of Operational Efficiency in Asian Banking: A Two-stage Banking Model Analysis date: 2014 words: 7229 flesch: 54 summary: 2.2 Cross-country analysis of bank efficiency In Lim and Randhawa’ (2005) comparison of banking efficiency in Hong Kong and Singapore, which was based on banks playing the two roles with equal importance. Based on the above studies, we can conclude that the ROA, asset size, loan loss reserves to total loans, non-interest expenses to total assets, equity to total assets, market concentration rate, and GDP growth rate have a significant effect on bank efficiency. keywords: banking; banks; efficiency; finance; hong; interest; intermediation; journal; kong; production; production stage; stage; taiwan; values cache: ajfa-6244.pdf plain text: ajfa-6244.txt item: #309 of 392 id: ajfa-6268 author: Itah, Alagh Jacinta; Emmanuel, Ene Emeka title: Impact of Cashless Banking on Banks’ Profitability (Evidence from Nigeria) date: 2014 words: 5970 flesch: 56 summary: Taking natural logs of both sides of the equation, we have: 31 2log log log log log 3tROE ATM POS WBTα β β β μ= + + + + − − − − − − − − − We then differentiate partially with respect to the log of each variable to obtain elasticity of ROE and a priori sign expectation of equation (4); 1 log 0 4 log t t t t ATMROE ROE ATM ATM ROE β   ∂ ∂= = > − − − − − − − − − − − −  ∂ ∂   2 log 0 5 log t t t t POSROE ROE POS POS ROE β   ∂ ∂= = > keywords: atm; banking; banks; cashless; finance; journal; money; nigeria; payment; pos; quarter; roe; system; − − cache: ajfa-6268.pdf plain text: ajfa-6268.txt item: #310 of 392 id: ajfa-6286 author: Mahtab, Naheem; Quraishi, Maqbool Kader title: Real Estate Investment in Bangladesh: A Pre Liminary Study date: 2014 words: 7449 flesch: 53 summary: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 323 Triantafyllopoulos further discussed that lack of information regarding real assets may cause a country to be ignored by real estate investors when they draw up their international investment strategies. Survey Question Questionnaire Dear Respondent, The questionnaire is aimed at understanding the use of bank loans to acquire real estate property in Bangladesh and the various factors that effects this acquisition process. keywords: 052x; accounting; acquisition; bank; estate; income; investment; issn; loans; property; total; vol cache: ajfa-6286.pdf plain text: ajfa-6286.txt item: #311 of 392 id: ajfa-6287 author: Ardiana, Putu Agus title: Tendency to Choose Big Audit Firms: Case of Indonesia date: 2014 words: 7136 flesch: 51 summary: Previous studies about the relationship between company risks and audit quality often divide company risks as business and financial risks and measure audit quality by audit firm size. This research uses risk tolerance instead of either business risk or financial risk as a proxy of company risk. keywords: accounting; audit; business; companies; company; earnings; firms; income; risk; smoothing cache: ajfa-6287.pdf plain text: ajfa-6287.txt item: #312 of 392 id: ajfa-6297 author: James, Paul title: Project Financial Management and Modern Financial Slavery: The Case of a KSA Metro Project Start-up date: 2014 words: 9105 flesch: 54 summary: Little has been reported in the literature surrounding project management of financial issues affecting engineers working on construction projects. In order to assess the ability of project management to manage design-engineering staff effectively on large construction projects, it would seem pertinent to establish some of the possible raised issues. keywords: 052x; asian; company; construction; cost; design; engineering; finance; issn; issues; job; journal; management; project; project management; research; respondent; staff; sub; theme; vol cache: ajfa-6297.pdf plain text: ajfa-6297.txt item: #313 of 392 id: ajfa-633 author: Tripathy, Naliniprava title: Causal Relationship between Macro-Economic Indicators and Stock Market in India date: 2011 words: 7453 flesch: 58 summary: Further the Granger-causality test shows evidence of bidirectional relationship between interest rate and stock market, exchange rate and stock market, international stock market and BSE volume, exchange rate and BSE volume. Keywords: Macroeconomic variables, Stock market, Ljung-Box Q test, Unit Root test, Granger-causality test JEL Classification: G1, G7, C32 Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2011, Vol. 3, No. 1: E13 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 209 1. keywords: bse; exchange; exchange rate; finance; granger; journal; market; rate; series; stock; stock market; test; variables; volume cache: ajfa-633.pdf plain text: ajfa-633.txt item: #314 of 392 id: ajfa-6341 author: Maksum, Azhar; Hamid, Rustam; Muda, Iskandar title: The Impact of Treasurer’s Experience And Knowledge on The Effectiveness of The Administration and Preparation of The Accountability Reporting System in North Sumatera date: 2014 words: 6043 flesch: 44 summary: With a reliable IT support, then the rules of financial accountability to be a contributing factor to realize the adequacy of disclosure and can create the effectiveness of internal control systems. Thus, this study is intended to look at the effectiveness of the adminisration and the preparation of the accountability reporting system of regional task force units. keywords: accountability; accountability reporting; accounting; administration; effectiveness; experience; force; preparation; reporting; reporting system; system; task; test; units cache: ajfa-6341.pdf plain text: ajfa-6341.txt item: #315 of 392 id: ajfa-6342 author: Oluwagbemiga, Oyerogba Ezekiel; Zaccheaus, Solomon Adeoluwa; Olugbenga, Olaleye Michael; Oluwaseyi, Adesina Temitope title: Stakeholders’ Perception of the Independence of Public Sector Auditors in Nigeria date: 2014 words: 5702 flesch: 38 summary: Abstract This study is an endeavor to investigate the extent to which public sector audit independence was achieved and how it was achieved in Nigeria. 1.3 Aims and objectives of the study Primarily, the study aim at investigating the extent to which public sector audit independence is achieved and how this independence is achieved in the Nigeria public sector organizations. keywords: accounting; auditor; auditor general; auditor independence; frequency; general; independence; public; reporting; respondents; sector cache: ajfa-6342.pdf plain text: ajfa-6342.txt item: #316 of 392 id: ajfa-6358 author: Rahman, Mohammad Mazibar; Rashid, Md Mamunar; Haque, Md Reiazul title: Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: A Case Study of Jamuna Bank Limited, Bangladesh date: 2014 words: 3856 flesch: 51 summary: The results show that there is no significant impact of CSR on PAT and therefore recommends the bank to critically evaluate its existing policy on performing CSR activities to increase profitability. The majority of banks in Bangladesh has committed to specified percentages of their pretax profit/net profit each year towards CSR activities. keywords: accounting; bangladesh; business; csr; jbl; journal; performance; profitability; responsibility cache: ajfa-6358.pdf plain text: ajfa-6358.txt item: #317 of 392 id: ajfa-6429 author: Lai, Ping-fu; CHOI, On-na title: Corporate Governance and Financial Performance of Bank in Asian Regions and Recommendations date: 2014 words: 11757 flesch: 54 summary: It also gives suggestions about how to improve bank financial performance. The management should have good expertise and experience to receive timely information; they have duty to monitor bank performance. keywords: asset; bank; board; capital; car; governance; hypothesis; journal; level; npl; performance; ptc; relationship; roaa; significance; size; value cache: ajfa-6429.pdf plain text: ajfa-6429.txt item: #318 of 392 id: ajfa-6447 author: Liu, Zhenjia title: Evaluating Earnings Management in Taiwan’s Nonprofit Hospitals Using Cross-Sectional Abnormal Items Models date: 2014 words: 6464 flesch: 42 summary: Besides it, like other types of donor-based non-profit organizations, non-profit hospitals engage in business operations to maintain organizational sustainability while delivering social welfare. Thus, managers of non-profit hospitals also must consider the organization’s financial performance (Tan, 2011; Singh & Wheeler, 2012). keywords: accruals; discretionary; earnings; gain; generating; hospitals; jones; management; model; revenue; year cache: ajfa-6447.pdf plain text: ajfa-6447.txt item: #319 of 392 id: ajfa-6464 author: Kumar, Rajesh title: Determinants of Value Creation of GCC Firms -An Application of PLS SEM Model date: 2014 words: 6886 flesch: 54 summary: The final latent construct of value creation is designed with formative indicators of average stock returns, earnings to book value of equity and ratio of market value to book value of the firm. Value creation for a firm is a function of identifying and managing value drivers which have the greatest impact on value creation. keywords: book; capital; creation; equity; finance; firm; growth; journal; market; profitability; returns; risk; stock; value cache: ajfa-6464.pdf plain text: ajfa-6464.txt item: #320 of 392 id: ajfa-6489 author: KR, Krishna Reddy; Abidin, Sazali; He, Wei; Sinha, Paresha title: Does Ownership Identity of Blockholders Matter: An Empirical Analysis of Publicly Listed Companies in New Zealand date: 2014 words: 11511 flesch: 51 summary: Our findings support the view that the identity of the shareholder(s) do matter in terms of company financial performance. Another group of researchers have reported the relationship between insider ownership and company financial performance is non-monotonic (Chen et al., , 1993; keywords: accounting; assets; companies; corporate; finance; holding; identity; investors; journal; level; new; ownership; performance; proportion; shareholders; shares; zealand cache: ajfa-6489.pdf plain text: ajfa-6489.txt item: #321 of 392 id: ajfa-6543 author: Akinyomi, Oladele John; Adedayo, OLUTOYE Ebenezer title: Corporate Governance and Profitability of Nigerian Banks date: 2015 words: 4366 flesch: 37 summary: Corporate governance represent methods through which organizations are being administered, a structure through which the welfare of different parties with vested interests are harmonized, showing group of interaction between a company’s administration, its board, its shareholders and other interested parties (Cheema & Din, 2013). Therefore, this review is eclectic in that it considers the investigation of corporate governance and corporate performance from several countries: Denmark, China, Bangladeshi, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and of course, the United States. keywords: association; banks; board; directors; governance; journal; performance; profitability; size; study cache: ajfa-6543.pdf plain text: ajfa-6543.txt item: #322 of 392 id: ajfa-6556 author: Samaduzzaman, Munshi; Zaman, Fazluz; Quazi, Zahurul title: Literature Review on Corporate Governance Structure and Performance in Non-Financial Bangladesh Firms date: 2015 words: 3911 flesch: 40 summary: Rouf (2012) later examined the relationship between profitability, that is, financial performance and the level of corporate governance disclosure (CGD)by listed Non-Financial firms in Bangladesh. The OLS method and multiple regression analysis were used to estimate corporate governance disclosure. keywords: accounting; bangladesh; board; directors; disclosure; firm; governance; performance; structure cache: ajfa-6556.pdf plain text: ajfa-6556.txt item: #323 of 392 id: ajfa-6602 author: Jan, Yin-Ching title: Risk Conception and Evaluation in Taiwan Financial Markets date: 2014 words: 3820 flesch: 61 summary: The first part explores what kind of risk investors care about. To separate these two return pattern by risk measure, Jan (2014) propose a weighted martingale semivariance (WMSVAR), which is reached by the combination of the martingale semivariance and the use of weighted average method. keywords: asset; investors; martingale; return; risk; semivariance; variance cache: ajfa-6602.pdf plain text: ajfa-6602.txt item: #324 of 392 id: ajfa-661 author: Malek, Mazrah; Che Ahmad, Ayoib title: The Relationships between Director-Auditor Link and Audit Opinion date: 2011 words: 332 flesch: -5 summary: CrossRef Directory of Research Journals Indexing DTU FindIt (DTU Library) EconBiz Electronic Journals Library EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) Google Scholar HOLLIS (Harvard Library) ICI World of Journals Index Copernicus PKP Open Archives Harvester Publons RePEc Scilit SHERPA/RoMEO The Standard Periodical Directory Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X Email: ajfa@macrothink.org Search | Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting Current Archives For Authors Submissions Author Guidelines Pay Article Processing Charge Ethical Guidelines For Reviewers Editorial Team Recruitment Reviewers Publication Policies Announcements About About the Journal Privacy Statement Contact Search Search Register Login Home / Search Search Search articles for Advanced filters Published After 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Published Before 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 By Author Search No Results Make a Submission ISSN: 1946-052X Started: 2009 Frequency: Semiannual Author Guidelines Publication Policies Pay Article Processing Charge Editorial Team Recruitment Reviewers Ethical Guidelines The journal is included and abstracted in:  BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) keywords: journal; search cache: ajfa-661.htm plain text: ajfa-661.txt item: #325 of 392 id: ajfa-6693 author: Takhtaei, Nasrollah; Mousavi, Zahra; Tamimi, Mohammad; Farahbakhsh, Iman title: Determinants of Disclosure Quality: Empirical Evidence from Iran date: 2014 words: 5134 flesch: 42 summary: The existence of negative and significant association of information disclosure quality with quick assets ratio indicates that corporations with higher quick assets ratio have lower information disclosure quality and vice versa. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v6i2.6693 Abstract In this study, we investigate whether quick assets ratio, current assets ratio, ROE, ROA, and financial leverage ratioas information disclosure quality determinants are related to information disclosure quality. keywords: accounting; assets; assets ratio; current; disclosure; information; quality; ratio; return; value cache: ajfa-6693.pdf plain text: ajfa-6693.txt item: #326 of 392 id: ajfa-6694 author: Adnan, Muhammad; Maemunah, Sri; Ismiyanti, Fitri; Purwono, Rudi title: Country Risk Modeling in Indonesia: An Empirical Approach date: 2015 words: 6234 flesch: 57 summary: Further, the βt at the equation (3) is substituted with the equation (4), so that we can obtain the time-varying beta market model applied to estimate the model of Indonesia country risk. Inflation, Indonesia economic growth, the Fed, and MSCI ACWI IMI return have negative and significant influence to country risk. keywords: beta; country; country risk; economic; indonesia; influence; journal; market; rate; return; risk; stock cache: ajfa-6694.pdf plain text: ajfa-6694.txt item: #327 of 392 id: ajfa-6751 author: Dash, Mihir title: Beta Estimation in Indian Stock Markets - Some Issues date: 2015 words: 4929 flesch: 73 summary: Dev. K.-S. test p-value S.-W. test p-value NIFTY -4.17% 3.74% 0.07% 1.14% 0.0647 0.0128 0.9797 0.0012 ACC -6.61% 6.07% 0.08% 1.74% 0.0572 0.0457 0.9836 0.0054 AMBUJA CEMENT -11.17% 7.73% 0.06% 2.06% 0.0500 0.2000 0.9638 0.0000 ASIAN PAINTS -7.79% 7.27% 0.04% 1.80% 0.0801 0.0006 0.9619 0.0000 AXIS BANK -9.90% 14.60% 0.05% 2.71% 0.0578 0.0412 0.9605 0.0000 BAJAJ AUTO -4.72% 5.40% 0.06% 1.57% 0.0445 0.2000 0.9913 0.1437 BANK OF BARODA -8.93% 10.08% 0.03% 2.82% 0.0668 0.0086 0.9811 0.0020 BHARATI AIRTEL -6.39% 7.55% 0.03% 2.21% 0.0727 0.0027 0.9865 0.0181 BHEL -21.38% 8.64% 0.04% 3.11% 0.0831 0.0002 0.9005 0.0000 BPCL -8.94% 7.22% 0.08% 2.45% 0.0602 0.0282 0.9774 0.0005 CAIRN -4.95% 5.21% 0.08% 1.50% 0.0912 0.0000 0.9666 0.0000 CIPLA -8.19% 4.76% 0.00% 1.47% 0.0467 0.2000 0.9566 0.0000 COAL INDIA -10.68% 6.73% -0.03% 2.00% 0.0555 0.0591 0.9698 0.0000 DLF -12.34% 9.25% -0.11% 3.27% 0.0696 0.0051 0.9824 0.0034 DR REDDY'S -4.40% 4.67% 0.15% 1.51% 0.0511 0.2000 0.9923 0.2168 GAIL -6.77% 4.81% 0.07% 1.68% 0.0546 0.0670 0.9903 0.0933 GRASIM -4.89% 6.17% 0.01% 1.59% 0.0772 0.0010 0.9723 0.0001 Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2015, Vol. 7, No. 2 27 HCL TECH -6.96% 4.76% 0.22% 1.87% 0.0547 0.0662 0.9796 0.0011 HDFC BANK -8.43% 7.75% 0.07% 1.88% 0.0770 0.0011 0.9643 0.0000 HDFC -8.12% 6.34% 0.03% 2.00% 0.0667 0.0088 0.9784 0.0007 HERO MOTO CO -6.51% 7.14% 0.15% 1.71% 0.0668 0.0086 0.9841 0.0068 HINDALCO -7.89% 10.86% 0.17% 2.61% 0.0588 0.0352 0.9841 0.0068 HINDUNILVR -4.46% 16.03% 0.10% 1.85% 0.1430 0.0000 0.7726 0.0000 ICICI BANK -5.58% 8.88% 0.07% 2.29% 0.0694 0.0053 0.9819 0.0028 IDFC -18.05% 7.54% -0.06% 2.86% 0.0649 0.0124 0.9387 0.0000 INDUSIND BANK -8.96% 8.01% 0.09% 2.80% 0.0568 0.0482 0.9814 0.0023 INFY -23.90% 10.36% 0.05% 2.17% 0.1631 0.0000 0.6242 0.0000 ITC -6.35% 5.98% 0.05% 1.65% 0.0646 0.0130 0.9778 0.0006 JINDAL STEEL -16.70% 8.85% -0.07% 2.77% 0.0850 0.0002 0.9231 0.0000 KOTAK BANK -6.07% 8.43% 0.07% 2.06% 0.0613 0.0234 0.9741 0.0002 L&T -7.74% 6.80% 0.12% 2.19% 0.0491 0.2000 0.9897 0.0760 LUPIN -6.91% 5.01% 0.16% 1.66% 0.0482 0.2000 0.9870 0.0229 M&M -4.89% 5.50% 0.05% 1.82% 0.0378 0.2000 0.9966 0.8719 MARUTI -8.35% 7.75% 0.17% 2.00% 0.0979 0.0000 0.9417 0.0000 MC DOWELL'S -7.68% 12.53% 0.13% 2.36% 0.0784 0.0007 0.9610 0.0000 NMDC -5.39% 6.72% 0.01% 2.08% 0.0595 0.0313 0.9877 0.0302 NTPC -12.49% 4.08% -0.07% 2.01% 0.0872 0.0001 0.8831 0.0000 ONGC -6.20% 7.29% 0.01% 2.15% 0.0357 0.2000 0.9942 0.4436 PNB -7.70% 8.95% 0.01% 2.70% 0.0561 0.0542 0.9860 0.0147 POWERGRID -11.86% 4.36% 0.00% 1.62% 0.0796 0.0006 0.9090 0.0000 RELIANCE -6.49% 5.55% 0.07% 1.73% 0.0572 0.0451 0.9866 0.0187 SBI -8.17% 9.20% -0.03% 2.01% 0.0475 0.2000 0.9701 0.0000 SSLT -9.43% 15.16% 0.08% 2.85% 0.0892 0.0001 0.9153 0.0000 SUN PHARMA -5.33% 6.88% 0.13% 1.88% 0.0498 0.2000 0.9876 0.0304 TATA MOTORS -6.17% 9.54% 0.16% 2.17% 0.0744 0.0019 0.9731 0.0001 TATA POWER -16.25% 7.55% -0.05% 2.38% 0.0752 0.0016 0.9266 0.0000 TATA STEEL This was strongly advocated by Fama and MacBeth (1973), who interpreted the CAPM as implying a basic linear relationship between stock returns and market betas which should completely explain the cross-section of returns at a specific point in time. keywords: accounting; asian; bank; beta; estimation; finance; journal; market; model; returns; risk; stocks cache: ajfa-6751.pdf plain text: ajfa-6751.txt item: #328 of 392 id: ajfa-7008 author: Samaduzzaman, Munshi; Ahmed, Masoom; Zaman, Fazluz title: VAT Increase and Impact on Consumers’ Consumption Habit date: 2015 words: 3527 flesch: 61 summary: The findings reveal that VAT increase has significant impact on consumers’ consumption habit. This case study could fill the gap in the literature for consumers’ Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2015, Vol. 7, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 106 consumption habit on VAT increase. keywords: accounting; change; consumers; income; increase; influence; journal; power; vat cache: ajfa-7008.pdf plain text: ajfa-7008.txt item: #329 of 392 id: ajfa-7033 author: Chang, Shen-Ho; Chiu, AnAn; Chu, Chin Ling; Wang, Teng-Shih; Wang, Teng-Shih; Hsieh, Tsung-I title: Material Flow Cost Accounting System for Decision Making: The Case of Taiwan SME in the Metal Processing Industry date: 2015 words: 7961 flesch: 46 summary: Product costs (positive product costs) or losses (negative product costs) are calculated on the same basis (Nakajima, 2004, 2009). Data collection is used to quantify the quantities of input and output against each quantity center based on material balance, and to collect the relevant costs for each quantity center, including material costs, energy costs, system costs and waste treatment costs. keywords: accounting; center; company; costs; drawing; flow; material; mfca; process; process center; products; waste; water cache: ajfa-7033.pdf plain text: ajfa-7033.txt item: #330 of 392 id: ajfa-716 author: Bano, Sayeeda; Kumarasinghe, Sriya; Tang, Yih Pin title: Comparative Economic Performance and Stock Market Performance: Some Evidence from the Asia-Pacific Region date: 2011 words: 8329 flesch: 51 summary: Thailand 9.65 Singapore 7.24 Sri Lanka 0.645 10 Australia 8.18 Thailand 7.19 Thailand 0.641 11 Hong Kong 6.48 Australia 6.42 Philippines 0.628 12 China 6.38 New Zealand 5.42 Indonesia 0.578 13 New Zealand 3.13 Hong Kong 3.64 India 0.498 14 Japan 0.69 Japan -0.06 Pakistan 0.478 Overall, countries that have higher economic growth rates tend to have higher MSCI returns, although their rankings may not be the same under these two indicators. Nonetheless, the results suggest that for balanced and sustainable well-being, economic growth in the less-developed countries need to be matched by concomitant improvements in social welfare, income distribution, transparency and accountability. keywords: asian; countries; country; finance; gdp; gdp growth; growth; japan; lanka; market; msci; performance; returns; sri; stock cache: ajfa-716.pdf plain text: ajfa-716.txt item: #331 of 392 id: ajfa-724 author: K, Srinivasa Reddy; V.K., Nangia; Agrawal, Rajat title: Business Valuation: Modelling Forecasting Hurdle Rate date: 2011 words: 6359 flesch: 56 summary: Company valuation methods: The most common errors in valuations. The methodology is divided into five phases, modeling forecasting hurdle rate, finding sales growth rate, computation of free cash flows & estimation of future free cash flows and finally determination of firm value under NRR approach. keywords: accounting; approach; business; cash; finance; firm; flow; growth; hotels; india; journal; leela; market; model; nrr; rate; tourism; valuation; value cache: ajfa-724.pdf plain text: ajfa-724.txt item: #332 of 392 id: ajfa-7243 author: Tiwari, Ranjit; Kumar, Brajesh title: Drivers of Firm’s Value: Panel Data Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry date: 2015 words: 8894 flesch: 55 summary: The four probable strategic drivers of value are assumed to be pay-out ratio, investments into R&D, investments into advertisement (brand image), and participation of foreign promoters in the organisational structure of the firm (see, Walter (1963), Chaganti and Damanpour (1991), Salomo and Strecker (2009) among others).We therefore classify value drivers into two broad categories namely financial value drivers and strategic value drivers (see, figure 4). Abstract The purpose of this paper is to classify the value drivers into broad categories and then identify the major drivers of firm’s value for Indian manufacturing industry and also work out the sectorial sensitivity of value drivers. keywords: 052x; accounting; capital; drivers; finance; financial; firm; issn; journal; market; model; sales; share; value; value drivers; vol cache: ajfa-7243.pdf plain text: ajfa-7243.txt item: #333 of 392 id: ajfa-7260 author: COSKUN, Ali; MAMMADOVA, Gulkhanim title: Costs and Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment to Azerbaijan’s Economy: The Case of Oil Sector date: 2015 words: 8363 flesch: 53 summary: In this study, we present the role of the oil sector in Azerbaijan’s economy, investigate the foreign direct investment in Azerbaijan oil sector and analyze the costs and benefits of foreign direct investment in oil industry to the Azerbaijan’s economy. On the other hand, foreign direct investment in Azerbaijan oil sector has great benefits for the economy, especially in terms of significant developments at macroeconomic indicators such as rapid increase in GDP. keywords: azerbaijan; azerbaijan oil; country; development; economy; fdi; finance; foreign; government; investment; investors; journal; oil; oil sector; sector cache: ajfa-7260.pdf plain text: ajfa-7260.txt item: #334 of 392 id: ajfa-74 author: Seghal, Sanjay; Tripathi, Neeta title: An Examination of Home Advantage (Bias) Argument in the Indian Financial Markets date: 2010 words: 5232 flesch: 46 summary: Both DFIs and FIIs seem to be attracted by equity market returns, thereby acknowledging positive feedback trading strategy but the latter seems to react faster than the former and thus negating the home advantage argument. Some document that foreign investors are at a disadvantage trading and holding foreign securities since they have less information about foreign markets and institutional settings (see Frankel and Schmukler, (2000), Kang and Stulz (1997)), while others support the view that foreign institutional investors can never be at a disadvantage trading relative to domestic institutional investors as they have better international expertise and talent and have considerable local resources (See Brennan Cao (1997), Seasholes (2000), Grinblatt and Keloharju (2000)). keywords: cause; debt; equity; fii; granger; home; inflows; investors; market cache: ajfa-74.pdf plain text: ajfa-74.txt item: #335 of 392 id: ajfa-744 author: Kraal, Diane; Yapa, Associate Professor Prem title: A Study on Industry Superannuation in Australia: Risk Disclosure and pre-Global Financial Crisis date: 2012 words: 9187 flesch: 49 summary: Hence this paper on super fund risk disclosure should be of interest to external parties, who may have concerns about governance in this sector, and particularly to investors many of whom are attracted to superannuation because of the tax concessions. This study tests our selected methodologies to measure risk disclosure. keywords: 052x; aasb; accounting; analysis; data; disclosure; finance; funds; industry; interest; issn; qualitative; risk; sample; standard; superannuation; vol cache: ajfa-744.pdf plain text: ajfa-744.txt item: #336 of 392 id: ajfa-75 author: Ahmed, Jaynal title: Priority Sector Lending by Commercial Banks in India: An Evaluative Study date: 2010 words: 9162 flesch: 53 summary: Department of Banking Supervision (1999) 7 studied the impact of priority sector advances on NPAs and found that the incidence of NPAs in priority sector is much higher in view of the fact that priority sector advances constitute 30-32 per cent of the gross bank credit. The present paper is an attempt to diagnose empirically the various lacunas of priority sector advances by commercial banks in the area under consideration in the context of national scenario. keywords: advances; banks; cent; credit; district; finance; india; lending; march; npas; priority sector; sector; sector advances; study cache: ajfa-75.pdf plain text: ajfa-75.txt item: #337 of 392 id: ajfa-7598 author: Riaz, Salman; Liu, Yanping; Khan, Sajjad Hussain title: Exploring the Relationship between Market Value and Accounting Numbers of Firms in Pakistan date: 2015 words: 2887 flesch: 55 summary: We study the influence of book value of share, breakup value of share, earning per share, gearing ratio and dividend to equity ratio on market value of share. Bar-yousef et al. (1996) conducted the first empirical study to examine the time series relationship between market value, dividends, earnings and book value. keywords: accounting; book; market; relationship; share; stock; value cache: ajfa-7598.pdf plain text: ajfa-7598.txt item: #338 of 392 id: ajfa-7687 author: Reddy, Sriharsha title: Non-Performing Loans in Emerging Economies – Case Study of India date: 2015 words: 9268 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: NPAs, Indian banks, Regulatory response, Global financial crisis Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2015, Vol. 7, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 184 1. Rajaraman, Bhaumik and Bhatia (1999) explained variations in NPAs across Indian banks through differences in operating efficiency, solvency and regional concentration. keywords: 052x; accounting; assets; banking; banks; credit; finance; india; issn; journal; loans; npas; performing; private; problem; sector; table; vol cache: ajfa-7687.pdf plain text: ajfa-7687.txt item: #339 of 392 id: ajfa-7802 author: Wakil, Amal Abdel; Shamim, Farkhanda title: Perceptions towards Codes of Behaviour: A Study of CAOs, CFOs and Other Employees in Bahrain date: 2015 words: 7633 flesch: 49 summary: Section 2 presents prior international research on ethical codes, followed by Section 3 to describe data and the research methods employed in the study, whereas Section 4 details research findings. Fisher (2001) studied managers' perceptions of ethical codes and concluded that, in various ways, both COE and COC contribute to a loss of personal ethical responsibility on the part of employees. keywords: accounting; behavior; business; codes; coe; committee; employees; ethics; journal; organizations; table cache: ajfa-7802.pdf plain text: ajfa-7802.txt item: #340 of 392 id: ajfa-79 author: Ding, Shujun; Wu, Zhenyu; Li, Yuanshun; Jia, Chunxin title: Can the Chinese Two-Tier-Board system Control the Board Chair Pay? date: 2009 words: 10027 flesch: 49 summary: Using data in 2005 and 2006 from the two stock markets in China, we examine the research questions using the meeting frequency and size of a supervisory board as proxies for its activities and characteristics, and show that supervisory boards influence board chair pay significantly. This article investigates if corporate governance mechanism indeed benefits in these two ways from major Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2009, Vol. 1, No. 1: E1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 2 characteristics of supervisory boards, one of the two monitoring organs in Chinese publicly listed companies. keywords: board; board chair; china; chinese; compensation; effects; finance; firm; governance; journal; monitoring; pay; performance; supervisory cache: ajfa-79.pdf plain text: ajfa-79.txt item: #341 of 392 id: ajfa-790 author: Saeidi, Parviz title: The Relationship between Income Smoothing and Income Tax and Profitability Ratios in Iran Stock Market date: 2012 words: 2089 flesch: 50 summary: Independent variables included tax income and profitability ratio (ROA and ROE) and dependent variables was income smoothing variable. The findings illustrated the fact that a significant relationship exists between income smoothing and tax income and profitability ratio. keywords: accounting; companies; income; relationship; smoothing; tax cache: ajfa-790.pdf plain text: ajfa-790.txt item: #342 of 392 id: ajfa-7952 author: Ahn, Seoungpil title: The Effect of SFAS No. 131 on the Diversification Discount date: 2015 words: 3502 flesch: 57 summary: Thus, (MV/S)ssj is the median market-to-sales ratio of single segment firms in the same industry of j segment. I match each segment of a diversified firm with the industry median value of single segment firms. keywords: discount; diversification; firms; segment; sfas; value cache: ajfa-7952.pdf plain text: ajfa-7952.txt item: #343 of 392 id: ajfa-810 author: Htay, Sheila Nu Nu; Rashid, Hafiz Majdi Ab.; Adnan, Mohamad Akhyar; Meera, Ahamed Kameel Mydin title: Impact of Corporate Governance on Social and Environmental Information Disclosure of Malaysian Listed Banks: Panel Data Analysis date: 2012 words: 8892 flesch: 45 summary: Information disclosure is an important and efficient means of protecting shareholders and is at the heart of corporate governance. Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1 www.macrothink.org/ajfa 4 It could be summed that the governance seems to be a heart of the corporation, especially in the banking sector and to have an influential power on information disclosure of the annual reports. keywords: 052x; accounting; asian; block; board; directors; disclosure; finance; firms; governance; information; journal; management; ownership; size; vol cache: ajfa-810.pdf plain text: ajfa-810.txt item: #344 of 392 id: ajfa-8136 author: Kumar, Gaurav; Misra, Arun Kumar title: Closer View at the Stock Market Liquidity: A Literature Review date: 2015 words: 8823 flesch: 50 summary: The results indicated that with the increased participation of foreign institutions, stock market liquidity improves. Brockman et al. (2008) studied the impact of stock market liquidity on payout decisions of the firm of the stocks listed on NYSE. keywords: accounting; asset; commonality; evidence; finance; impact; journal; liquidity; market; market liquidity; measure; price; pricing; returns; risk; stock; stock liquidity; stock market; study; trading cache: ajfa-8136.pdf plain text: ajfa-8136.txt item: #345 of 392 id: ajfa-8148 author: Zalaghi, Hasan; Khazaei, Mahdi title: The Role of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Accounting Research and Standard Setting date: 2016 words: 7079 flesch: 46 summary: Considering the impact of accounting theory on standard setting, the main aim of this study is to explore the role of deductive and inductive reasoning in the development of accounting theory and setting accounting standards. Furthermore, regarding the fact that accounting research is the joint connection between accounting theory and standards, the role of these reasoning approaches on the integrity of this connection is studied. keywords: accounting; accounting theory; approach; framework; principles; reasoning; research; setting; standards; theories; theory cache: ajfa-8148.pdf plain text: ajfa-8148.txt item: #346 of 392 id: ajfa-8165 author: Ahmad, Fayyaz; Draz, Muhammad Umar; Yang, Su-chang title: Determinants of Foreign Portfolio Inflows: Analysis and Implications for China date: 2015 words: 4724 flesch: 52 summary: Consequently, FPI investors started investing in the Indian market for the first time in 1991. Investment in foreign countries is a source of earning as well as helpful to diversify the portfolio risk of the investors. keywords: capital; china; countries; determinants; flows; fpi; growth; investment; investors; journal; portfolio; variables cache: ajfa-8165.pdf plain text: ajfa-8165.txt item: #347 of 392 id: ajfa-8175 author: Ghosh, Protap Kumar; Ghosh, Sutap Kumar title: Retail Investors’ Responsibilities in Stock Market Imperfection in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study date: 2015 words: 5117 flesch: 58 summary: Even after these two big crashes, Bangladesh stock market cannot represent itself stable over times. Bangladesh stock market represents itself as an imperfect one because of wide fluctuation in volume of stock trading and market index. keywords: accounting; investors; journal; market; price; ratio; share; stock; variables cache: ajfa-8175.pdf plain text: ajfa-8175.txt item: #348 of 392 id: ajfa-8185 author: Githaiga, Peter; Nyauncho, Josiah; KABIRU, Charles Githinji title: Foreign Direct Investments and Economic Growth: The Primary Drivers date: 2015 words: 4783 flesch: 52 summary: The impact of FDIs and other foreign capital flows on human capital development, technology transfer and economic growth (through the spillover effect) is extensively debated in literature. However the effect of FDI on human capital development was negative. keywords: accounting; capital; countries; development; economic; fdi; fdis; finance; gdp; growth; investment; journal; study; trade cache: ajfa-8185.pdf plain text: ajfa-8185.txt item: #349 of 392 id: ajfa-82 author: Phillips, Peter J title: Are Larger Self Managed Superannuation Funds Riskier? date: 2009 words: 8316 flesch: 48 summary: Percentage of Portfolio in Risky Assets Vs Portfolio Net Worth (Cross-Classification Analysis) Portfolio Net Worth (100 Portfolios) 0% to 40% invested in risky assets 40% to 60% invested in risky assets 60% to 75% invested in risky assets 75% to 100% invested in risky assets Total $0 to $500,000 0.00 0.04166 0.04166 0.9166 1.00 $500,000 to $1,000,000 0.0344 0.0344 0.00 0.9310 1.00 $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 $2,000,000 + 0.00 0.00 0.2222 0.7777 1.00 In Tables 4 and 5, the data are tabulated according to portfolio net worth (rows) and proportions of total portfolio net worth invested in risky assets (columns). In the table below, the table‟s variables are (1) categories of portfolio net worth; and (2) percentage invested in risky assets. keywords: allocations; assets; cash; funds; net; portfolio; risk; sample; smsf; worth cache: ajfa-82.pdf plain text: ajfa-82.txt item: #350 of 392 id: ajfa-8256 author: Kumar, Rajesh; K S, Sujit title: Wealth Creators in the Banking Sector in UAE during 2010-2015 Period date: 2015 words: 2274 flesch: 59 summary: Commercial Bank of Dubai and Gulf Finance House had an average yearly returns of approximately 60 per cent and 54 per cent during the five year period 2010-2014.Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Ajman Bank had an average yearly returns of 50 percent and 43 percent during the period 2010-2014.Emirates NBD registered an yearly average return of approximately 42 per cent during the five year period 2010-2014.Dubai Islamic Bank had registered an average return of 38.6 per cent during the five year period 2010-2014. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Dubai Islamic Bank stock had given the highest average holding period yield during the period 2010-2014.Out of the 19 banks studied, 16 banks had positive average holding period yield. keywords: bank; year cache: ajfa-8256.pdf plain text: ajfa-8256.txt item: #351 of 392 id: ajfa-8262 author: Joshipura, Mayank; Joshipura, Nehal title: Risk Anomaly: A Review of Literature date: 2015 words: 6036 flesch: 50 summary: Short selling constraints, does not allow arbitrageurs to correct the inflated prices of high volatility stocks immediately by going long on ignored low risk stocks and shorting high risk stocks, which in turn, leads to underperformance of high volatility stocks. Abstract Number of studies show that portfolio of low risk stocks outperforms portfolio of high risk stocks as well as the market portfolio over the full market cycle on risk adjusted basis and in some cases, absolute basis as well. keywords: anomaly; baker; beta; finance; journal; market; portfolio; returns; risk; stocks; studies; volatility cache: ajfa-8262.pdf plain text: ajfa-8262.txt item: #352 of 392 id: ajfa-8296 author: Nguyen, Thanh Pham Thien title: How do the Banking Systems of Vietnam, China and India Fare? date: 2015 words: 9347 flesch: 54 summary: Firstly, although there are a large number of studies on bank efficiency either across or within countries over the last two decades, this is the first study of differences and similarities in the efficiency of banks across Vietnam, China and India. Secondly, this is the first study measuring bank efficiency by simultaneously considering the three most important economic aspects: cost, revenue and profit efficiencies. keywords: banking; banks; china; cost; crisis; efficiency; india; interest; profit; revenue; state; state banks; vietnam cache: ajfa-8296.pdf plain text: ajfa-8296.txt item: #353 of 392 id: ajfa-8318 author: Young, Chaur-Shiuh; Lin, Yueh-Ju; Chien, Fei-Liang; Chen, Chia-Hui title: CEO Succession, Investor Expectations, and Real Earnings Management date: 2015 words: 7700 flesch: 57 summary: This study investigates whether inverse market reaction on CEO succession will induce earnings management of new CEOs in order to protect their reputational and career prospects. However, REM is negatively associated with market expectations on CEO successions, implying new CEOs may utilize REM to reverse the first bad impressions held by investors. keywords: accounting; car; ceo; earnings; firms; journal; management; market; new; rem; results; succession cache: ajfa-8318.pdf plain text: ajfa-8318.txt item: #354 of 392 id: ajfa-835 author: Parthasarathy, Srikanth title: Co-Movement and Index Changes - Evidence from The Emerging Indian Stock Market date: 2011 words: 10437 flesch: 57 summary: Introduction The empirical investigation of stock index changes around the world has focused on two aspects: Firstly, the price effect which was studied for over the past three decades had evidenced permanent increase in stock prices following addition to stock index. An interesting finding is that the stock pricing become less efficient when the non-Nifty stocks become Nifty index stocks based on the auto correlation results. keywords: beta; change; increase; index; index stocks; market; movement; nifty; period; results; stocks; trading; volume cache: ajfa-835.pdf plain text: ajfa-835.txt item: #355 of 392 id: ajfa-8356 author: Hawaldar, Iqbal Thonse title: Empirical Testing of Capital Asset Pricing Model on Bahrain Bourse date: 2015 words: 5097 flesch: 65 summary: Objectives of the Study The objectives of the study are: To find out the relationship between market returns and returns on portfolio. Abstract The study is undertaken to find out the relationship between portfolio returns and market returns and test the empirical validity of the standard CAPM model on Bahrain Bourse. keywords: beta; journal; portfolio; returns; risk cache: ajfa-8356.pdf plain text: ajfa-8356.txt item: #356 of 392 id: ajfa-8404 author: Badru, Bazeet olayemi; Bagudu, Hauwa Daniyan; Alfa, Abdulmumini Baba; Alfa, Abdulmumini Baba title: The Vital Role of Gender Diversity on Corporate Outcomes: The Need for Empirical Studies Concerning Frontier Markets date: 2015 words: 7644 flesch: 49 summary: Corporate board gender diversity and stock performance: The competence gap or institutional investor bias?. Corporate boards gender diversity and earnings persistence: The case of French listed firms. keywords: accounting; board; companies; company; directors; diversity; female; finance; gender; gender diversity; governance; journal; management; performance; women cache: ajfa-8404.pdf plain text: ajfa-8404.txt item: #357 of 392 id: ajfa-8410 author: Kasi, Umayal; Muhammad, Junaina title: Strict and Uniform Shariah Screening Methodologies in Selected Asian Countries in Comparison with the United States date: 2016 words: 13197 flesch: 43 summary: This index represents the performance of Shariah Compliant firms from both Hong Kong and China (Hong Kong Islamic Index, 2007).The number of Shariah-Compliant firms listed on the Hong Kong Islamic Indices can be seen in Table 1as follows: Hence, this study is significant, in that it fills the research gap, by investigating the possibilities of generalising the implementation of strict and uniform Shariah screening methodologies, amongst these nations and globally. keywords: accounting; compliant; finance; financial; firms; hong; index; islamic; journal; kong; malaysia; methodologies; screening; securities; securities commission; shariah; shariah screening; year cache: ajfa-8410.pdf plain text: ajfa-8410.txt item: #358 of 392 id: ajfa-8493 author: El-qawaqneh, Shahir; Binti Laili, Dr Nur Hidayah; Bin Khairi, Dr Khairil title: The Approaching Lease Accounting Regulations and Its Impact on Cost of Capital, "A Practical Case Study" date: 2015 words: 5282 flesch: 49 summary: The company’s capital consists of debt, recorded financial lease, owners' equity, plus the capitalized amount of operation lease. We also find some evidence that the positive change in WACC is related to the increasing portion of capitalized lease liability accompanied with an escalating decreeing in conventional debt, in certain conditions, this result suggests that financial lease has the advantage over conventional debt. keywords: accounting; capital; capitalization; credit; debt; equity; finance; financial; journal; lease; operation; risk cache: ajfa-8493.pdf plain text: ajfa-8493.txt item: #359 of 392 id: ajfa-8530 author: Aryan, Laith A title: The Relationship between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Firm Quality and Companies’ Profitability date: 2015 words: 4587 flesch: 43 summary: Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2015, Vol. 7, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 225 Rainsbury, E. A., Bradbury, M., & Cahan, S. F. (2009).The impact of audit committee quality on financial reporting quality and audit fees. This study aimed to highlight the role of audit committee and external audit in enhancing companies’ profitability. keywords: audit; audit committee; committee; companies; governance; journal; management; profitability; quality; relationship cache: ajfa-8530.pdf plain text: ajfa-8530.txt item: #360 of 392 id: ajfa-8537 author: Ramadan, Imad Zeyad title: Does Ownership Structure Affect Jordanian Companies’ Tendency to Practice Earnings Management? date: 2016 words: 3785 flesch: 47 summary: Research design issues in earnings management studies. Microsoft Word - 8537-31000-1-SM-writer2-new Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2015, Vol. 7, No. 2 281 Does Ownership Structure Affect Jordanian Companies’ Tendency to Practice Earnings Management? keywords: accounting; accruals; earnings; earnings management; finance; investors; journal; management; ownership cache: ajfa-8537.pdf plain text: ajfa-8537.txt item: #361 of 392 id: ajfa-8539 author: Almomani, Mohammad Abdallah title: The Impact of Audit Quality Features on Enhancing Earnings Quality: The Evidence of Listed Manufacturing Firms at Amman Stock Exchange date: 2015 words: 11729 flesch: 49 summary: Both issues of earnings quality and audit quality are among the hot topics in academic and professional environments (Krishnah, 2003). To identify the effect of audit qualities on enhancing earnings quality of listed manufacturing firms in Amman Stock Exchange. keywords: accounting; audit office; audit quality; auditor; client; coefficient; earnings quality; features; fees; firms; journal; manufacturing; study cache: ajfa-8539.pdf plain text: ajfa-8539.txt item: #362 of 392 id: ajfa-8550 author: Xiang, Rui; Qin, Meng; Peterson, Craig A title: Gender Diversity of Audit Committees and Audit Fees: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies date: 2015 words: 6738 flesch: 57 summary: Chapter Ⅲ Directors and Board of Directors, §6 Special Committees of the Board states(52)in listed companies, the board of directors can form audit committees based on the decision of general meetings, most of the audit committee’s members should be independent directors, and at least one member should have accounting expertise. It also lists clearly (54)the major responsibilities of audit committees. keywords: accounting; audit; audit committee; audit fees; chinese; committee; companies; control; diversity; fees; gender; journal; management; state cache: ajfa-8550.pdf plain text: ajfa-8550.txt item: #363 of 392 id: ajfa-86 author: Cohen, Michael Brian title: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium for Economies in the Asian Region date: 2009 words: 4646 flesch: 59 summary: If the economies were in some sense “closed” then local factors which affect the ERP are likely to be different in each economy, resulting in different ERP in each. There is no reason to suppose that the ERP will be the same or different between different economies; further more it is possible to test this hypothesis given the data that was used in constructing the ERP in this study. keywords: asian; data; economies; economy; erp; market; period; risk cache: ajfa-86.pdf plain text: ajfa-86.txt item: #364 of 392 id: ajfa-8606 author: Hashem, Abdulrahman; Ayoub, Fadi Mousa; Ata, Haitham Bani title: Corporate Governance and Bank Competition Empirical Study on the Jordanian Commercial Banks Listed in Amman Stock Exchange over the Period (2001-2014) date: 2015 words: 4005 flesch: 48 summary: Bank competition is tested by using Panzar and Rosse H statistics model and the researchers applied it on the collected data into two periods of time (2001-2007 and 2008-2014), taking into consideration that corporate governance was first implemented in the Jordanian banking sector on 31/12/2007. The results showed insignificant effect of corporate governance on bank competition that can be linked to certain reasons including the immaturity of corporate governance’s implementation in the Jordanian banking sector, the socio political upheavals that affected Jordan, and the differentiation of bank services between banks led to a more monopolistic behavior. keywords: banking; banks; competition; degree; finance; governance; panzar; rosse cache: ajfa-8606.pdf plain text: ajfa-8606.txt item: #365 of 392 id: ajfa-8614 author: Ramadan, Imad Zeyad title: EVA and the Impact of the Macroeconomic Variables: Evidence from the Jordanian Manufacturing Companies date: 2016 words: 3625 flesch: 44 summary: The study concluded that there was statistically significant negative effect for Government Tax on industrial companies, while the Government Expenditure had had a positive impact on the industrial sector, also the results have confirmed the effect of the Fiscal Policy on the industrial sector. Tkalec and Vizek (2009) aimed to study the effect of macroeconomic variables on the productivity of industrial companies in Croatia. keywords: accounting; companies; company; eva; journal; manufacturing; performance; value cache: ajfa-8614.pdf plain text: ajfa-8614.txt item: #366 of 392 id: ajfa-8616 author: Ramadan, Imad Zeyad title: Macroeconomic Approach of the Determinants of Stock Price Movements in Jordan date: 2016 words: 3441 flesch: 55 summary: These results are consistent with (Mukherjee and Naka, 1995, Zhao, 1999 & Udegbunam and Eriki, 2001, Al-Qenae, Li & Wearing, 2002, Dimitrios Tsoukalas, 2003 , Ibrahim 2003; Chaudhuri and Smiles, 2004) Keywords: Macroeconomic factors; Stock price movements; Jordan Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 61 1. Ibrahim and Aziz (2003), Booth and Booth (1997), Wongbangpo and Sharma (2002), Chen (2003), Chen et al. (2005), Maysami and Koh (2000), and Mukherjee and Naka (1995) have concluded that rates of inflation, prevailing interest rates, rates of growth of money supply, size of reserves, local currency exchange rates and productivity of the sector are all considered as statistically significant determinants of stock prices movements. keywords: factors; market; movements; prices; rates; stock; stock prices; study cache: ajfa-8616.pdf plain text: ajfa-8616.txt item: #367 of 392 id: ajfa-883 author: Avazzadehfath, Fariborz; Raiashekar, H. title: Decision-Making Based on Human Resource Accounting Information and Its Evaluation Method date: 2012 words: 5158 flesch: 45 summary: This paper explores firstly, whether investment decisions are affected by human resource accounting information disclosed in the financial statements or not? The results indicate that human resource accounting (HRA) information disclosure in financial statements is relevant and affect on the optimal investment decisions. keywords: accounting; decision; hra; hypothesis; impact; information; investment; journal; making; resource; value cache: ajfa-883.pdf plain text: ajfa-883.txt item: #368 of 392 id: ajfa-8898 author: Sharma, Prashant; Kumar, Brajesh title: Idiosyncratic Volatility and Cross-section of Stock Returns: Evidences from India date: 2016 words: 4520 flesch: 53 summary: In line with second branch of literature, the predictability of stock returns with different risk measures was tested by Goyal and Clara (2003) for period of July 1962 to December 1999 and showed that there is significant positive relationship between average stock variance (largely idiosyncratic risk ) and market returns. Data and Methodology for Estimation of Volatility The study employs monthly data on stocks returns, market returns, 91 dayst-bills rates, SMB and HML of BSE 500 companies (except banking and financial institutions) from 2001(FY) to 2012 (FY). keywords: cross; market; relationship; returns; stock; volatility cache: ajfa-8898.pdf plain text: ajfa-8898.txt item: #369 of 392 id: ajfa-894 author: Nkwe, Nugi title: State of Information Technology Auditing in Botswana date: 2011 words: 5879 flesch: 50 summary: Introduction Many companies the world over are aware of the benefits of information technology auditing which results in efficiency and profitability. IT auditing has had a relatively short yet rich history when compared to auditing as a whole and remains an ever changing field (Wikipedia encyclopedia) keywords: accounting; adoption; auditing; auditors; botswana; business; finance; government; ict; information; journal; lot; technology cache: ajfa-894.pdf plain text: ajfa-894.txt item: #370 of 392 id: ajfa-8943 author: Momani, Mohammad A title: The Ability of Traditional and Modern Performance Indicators in Interpreting the Phenomenon of Earnings Management: Evidence Manufacturing Firms in Amman Stock Exchange date: 2016 words: 9197 flesch: 46 summary: Testing Branch Hypotheses Table (6) shows the results of testing the ability of each modern performance indicators in interpreting earnings management phenomena of the listed manufacturing firms in ASE. Abstract The study objects for investigating the ability of traditional and modern performance indicators in interpreting earnings management phenomena of listed manufacturing firms in the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), using adjusted Jones method for measuring earnings management. keywords: accounting; earnings; earnings management; earnings quality; economic; firms; indicators; market; performance; performance indicators; phenomenon; quality; study; value cache: ajfa-8943.pdf plain text: ajfa-8943.txt item: #371 of 392 id: ajfa-90 author: Gelardi, Alexander title: Information Quantity and Order in Students’ Tax Research Judgements date: 2010 words: 8019 flesch: 61 summary: In all cases, there is a primacy or force toward primacy effect for long evidence series. Studies using experiments in accounting contexts to examine order effects may not typify tax decision making because these studies tended to use balanced information sets of two or four pieces of information (cues) in the experimental tasks. keywords: accounting; belief; cues; effect; evidence; model; order; recency; series; tax cache: ajfa-90.pdf plain text: ajfa-90.txt item: #372 of 392 id: ajfa-9064 author: Huang, Cheng-Li; Chen, Wei-ju; Lu, Kuo-Chen title: Can the Audit Committee Provide Better Oversight of Listed Companies? – An Efficiency of Cash Holdings Perspective date: 2016 words: 11589 flesch: 53 summary: We use the difference in difference method to investigate the effect of oversight of audit committee from 2007 to 2010 the company with audit committee for sample. The empirical results show that the using efficiency of cash holdings isn’t promoted after setting up audit committee with all listed companies sample. keywords: accounting; audit committee; cash; cash holdings; change; establishment; finance; financial; firms; holdings; journal; market; market value; otc; tse; value cache: ajfa-9064.pdf plain text: ajfa-9064.txt item: #373 of 392 id: ajfa-9129 author: AL-Najjar, Dana Mohammad title: Modelling and Estimation of Volatility Using ARCH/GARCH Models in Jordan’s Stock Market date: 2016 words: 6131 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords:- Times Series, GARCH models, Modelling Volatility, leverage effect, Emerging Markets, Jordan. In the same vein, study by Bollerselev (1986) suggested one step forward to overcome the problem related to the ARCH model regarding the number of parameters, by applying Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model; in this way Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 154 instead of having infinite parameters using ARCH models, we can reduce the number into only two parameters in GARCH model. keywords: asymmetric; effect; finance; financial; garch; journal; market; models; return; stock; study; volatility cache: ajfa-9129.pdf plain text: ajfa-9129.txt item: #374 of 392 id: ajfa-918 author: Bashir, Adnan; Sajid, Mirza Rizwan; Iqbal, Samra title: Barriers to Islamic Banking Growth- Bank Employees’ Perspective from Pakistan date: 2011 words: 5188 flesch: 58 summary: His respondents were Islamic bank customers. Our findings indicate that according to over all sample small network of branches, inadequate info about Islamic banking services, ignorance to teachings of Islam, trust deficiency towards Interest free banking and location of banks as the main reason for mere rise of Islamic banking. keywords: banking; banks; disagree; employees; finance; islamic; journal; services cache: ajfa-918.pdf plain text: ajfa-918.txt item: #375 of 392 id: ajfa-92 author: Kumarasinghe, Sriyalatha; Hoshino, Yasuo title: Entry Mode Strategies and Performance of Japanese MNCs in Australia and New Zealand: the Role of Japanese Employees date: 2009 words: 6805 flesch: 48 summary: This study extends our understanding of the influence of ownership and staffing policies on Japanese subsidiary performance in Australia and New Zealand. hoshino@aichi-u.ac.jp Abstract This study investigates different entry modes and staffing practices, and their influence on performance in Japanese subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand. keywords: age; australia; entry; industry; japanese; journal; model; new; ownership; performance; subsidiaries; zealand cache: ajfa-92.pdf plain text: ajfa-92.txt item: #376 of 392 id: ajfa-9288 author: Liu, Chia-Ying; Huang, Shiu-Chen; Chen, Shieh-Liang title: The Effects of Agency Costs and Insiders’ Shareholdings on Financing Choices date: 2016 words: 11305 flesch: 56 summary: As for equity agency cost, we also find the relationship that both current and prior periods’ equity agency costs are negatively related to seasoned equity offerings, implying that the firm with higher equity agency cost tends to conduct debt offerings in current period. It also examines the effects of the shareholdings of insiders on the association between both debt and equity agency costs and the choice of financing methods. keywords: agency cost; assets; costs; debt agency; debt financing; equity agency; equity financing; equity offerings; firm; insiders; journal; period; shareholdings cache: ajfa-9288.pdf plain text: ajfa-9288.txt item: #377 of 392 id: ajfa-9297 author: Zemzem, Ahmed; Zouari, Samir title: Japan’s Corporate Governance Structures and Credit Rating date: 2016 words: 6923 flesch: 53 summary: The study of the history of credit rating agencies may be divided into three distinct periods as mentioned by Lawrence (2013). The study shows that good governance is associated with higher credit rating and suggests that active monitoring by independent directors and better disclosure mitigate agency conflicts and protect the interests of debtholders. keywords: accounting; agency; board; credit; directors; effect; finance; firm; governance; journal; ownership; rating; variables cache: ajfa-9297.pdf plain text: ajfa-9297.txt item: #378 of 392 id: ajfa-93 author: James-Overheu, Christina; Cotter, Julie title: Corporate Governance and Sustainability Disclosures and the Assessment of Default Risk date: 2009 words: 8360 flesch: 39 summary: Dye, Ronald A., (1985), “Disclosure of non-proprietary information”, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 23, Issue 1, Spring 1985, pp.123-145 Francis, Jere R., Khurana Inder K. & Pereira Raynolde (2003), “The role of accounting and auditing in corporate governance and the development of financial markets around the world”, Asia-pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 10, Issue 1, June 2003, pp. 1-30 Gompers, P., Ishii, J. and Metrick, A. (2003), “Corporate governance and equity prices”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, Issue 1, February 2003, pp. Our index is centred on corporate governance disclosures related to the ASX Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations. keywords: accounting; audit; board; companies; credit; disclosure; finance; governance; journal; proportion; ratings; report; risk; size; sustainability; vol cache: ajfa-93.pdf plain text: ajfa-93.txt item: #379 of 392 id: ajfa-9319 author: Kakanda, Mohammed Mahmud; Salim, Basariah; Chandren, Sitraselvi title: Review of the Relationship between Board Attributes and Firm Performance date: 2016 words: 5238 flesch: 47 summary: The impact of corporate governance and board performance on the performance of public listed companies in Malaysia. Hence, this study aimed at reviewing the findings of previous studies that examined the relationship between corporate board of directors’ attributes and firm performance, and to identify possible gaps in literature. keywords: accounting; attributes; board; directors; finance; firm; governance; journal; performance; relationship; review; size cache: ajfa-9319.pdf plain text: ajfa-9319.txt item: #380 of 392 id: ajfa-932 author: Wang, Xinhua; Yang, Bibo title: Management Entrenchment, Agency Problem and Audit Fees date: 2011 words: 4812 flesch: 52 summary: First, this study contributes to the corporate governance provisions research by providing empirical evidence that entrenchment provisions results in higher audit fees, suggesting entrenchment provisions lead to higher audit risk. Second, this study contributes to the auditing literature by providing empirical evidence that auditors charge higher audit fees for firms with more entrenchment governance provisions. keywords: assets; audit; cash; entrenchment; fees; firms; journal; provisions cache: ajfa-932.pdf plain text: ajfa-932.txt item: #381 of 392 id: ajfa-9339 author: Wang, Ya-Fang title: Does the Type of Material Information Matter to CEO Turnover? date: 2016 words: 4388 flesch: 48 summary: Abstract Using hand-collected data to obtain the nature of material information, I examine whether and how the likelihood of CEO turnover is associated with material information disclosures. One major limitation of this study is that approximately 99% of companies in Taiwan discloses material information, indicating that material information disclosures are a very common phenomenon in Taiwan. keywords: accounting; ceo; companies; company; disclosures; finance; information; journal; material; material information; research; turnover cache: ajfa-9339.pdf plain text: ajfa-9339.txt item: #382 of 392 id: ajfa-9354 author: AL Frijat, Yaser title: The Dynamics Application of Accounting Standards, and Its Importance in the Measurement with Fair Value & Disclosure date: 2016 words: 5491 flesch: 36 summary: Christensen & Nikolaev, (2013) study aimed to identify the circumstances in which application of fair value accounting is used as an alternative to historical cost, and the study concluded that application of fair value accounting on non-current intangible assets such as equipment and buildings are with a lesser degree of efficiency for decision-makers if are not compared with historical cost. Although improvements witnessed by financial reports environment in the last periods in light of (IAS/IFRS)adoption, and its importance in fair value measurement, but developing Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2 ajfa.macrothink.org 48 Jordanian public Companies environment is deemed narrow and limited faced by many challenges, represented by lack of active markets that have larger role in accurate measurement and disclosed of fair value, and the lack of qualified accounting personnel to deal with changes in fair value that should be given attention and follow up its use and implementation. keywords: accounting; application; companies; disclosure; ias; ifrs; importance; journal; measurement; standards; study; value cache: ajfa-9354.pdf plain text: ajfa-9354.txt item: #383 of 392 id: ajfa-9359 author: Shambor, Aws Yousef title: The Determinants of Capital Structure: Empirical Analysis of Oil and Gas Firms during 2000-2015 date: 2017 words: 13863 flesch: 52 summary: The capital structure is analyzed in terms of the three main theories of capital structure: Trade-off theory, Pecking order theory, and Agency cost theory. Keywords: Capital structure, Global oil and gas index, leverage, tangibility, liquidity, size, profitability, growth, and the global financial crisis. keywords: assets; capital structure; crisis; debt; determinants; finance; financial; firms; gas; gas firms; journal; leverage; oil; period; ratio; study; theory; total cache: ajfa-9359.pdf plain text: ajfa-9359.txt item: #384 of 392 id: ajfa-9455 author: Gupta, Pradeep Kumar; Kumar, Shailendra; Verma, Piyush title: Association between Degree of Leverages and Firm Value date: 2016 words: 6869 flesch: 58 summary: Abstract This study aims to empirically investigate the association between degree of leverages, operating and financial, and firm value in the context of India, one of big ten emerging markets (Garten, 1997). The independent variables, degrees of operating and financial leverage, and a market price-based dependent variable, called price-earnings ratio as a proxy of firm value, are taken to examine this relationship by using standard ordinary least square regression Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2016, Vol. 8, No. 1 ajfa.macrothink.org 213 models at the levels of individual firm and portfolio of firms. keywords: accounting; dfl; dol; finance; firm; journal; leverage; markets; model; ratio; study; total; value cache: ajfa-9455.pdf plain text: ajfa-9455.txt item: #385 of 392 id: ajfa-9610 author: Lin, Yi-Mien; Chien, Hsiu Fang title: The Relationship between Financing Policy, Earnings Management and Governance Practices date: 2016 words: 20157 flesch: 61 summary: Earnings Management and Future Performance ititititititititit ReturnMBSizeBetaRTEMDTEMROA εββββββββ ++++++++=+ stanRet __ 765432101 ititititititititit ReturnMBSizeBetaRTEMDTEMROA εββββββββ ++++++++=+ stanRet __ 765432102 Panel A Variable Expected Sign All Sample Financing Sample coefficient t value coefficient t value Intercept -0.1885 keywords: .0001; 052x; accounting; accruals; ajfa.macrothink.org; asian; audit; coef; coefficient; companies; directors; earnings management; finance; financing; financing sample; firms; governance; industry; issn; journal; non; panel; sample; seos; t value; table; value; value coef; variable; vol; year cache: ajfa-9610.pdf plain text: ajfa-9610.txt item: #386 of 392 id: ajfa-9632 author: Tavakolnia, Esmail; Makrani, Seyed Vali Mostafavi title: Location, Industry Competition and Profitability date: 2016 words: 5677 flesch: 55 summary: Also, although increasing companies and factories in Tehran and big cities is not desirable in terms of political and macro-economic policies, but according to the results of the study, being located in Tehran or big cities can be recommended as one of the ways of increasing profitability for companies operating in food industries listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Therefore, this study investigates and tests this issue at the level of food industry companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange, and at the same time, examines the effects of industry competition on this relationship. keywords: company; distance; earnings; impact; industry; location; profitability; sig; tax; tehran cache: ajfa-9632.pdf plain text: ajfa-9632.txt item: #387 of 392 id: ajfa-9721 author: Dash, Mihir title: The Internal Rate of Return Model for Life Insurance Policies date: 2016 words: 7629 flesch: 61 summary: Maturity -4.00% -3.00% -2.00% -1.00% 0.00% 1.00% 2.00% 3.00% 4.00% 5.00% 6.00% 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 Age Rs. 1 A comparison was then made separately for unadjusted rate of return and mortality-adjusted rate of return in terms of sum assured, in terms of the products, and finally in terms of maturity period. keywords: lakh; maturity; plan; rate; return cache: ajfa-9721.pdf plain text: ajfa-9721.txt item: #388 of 392 id: ajfa-9759 author: Jena, Sarthak Kumar; Mishra, Chandra Sekhar; Rajib, Prabina title: Share Repurchases: A Literature Review date: 2016 words: 12280 flesch: 53 summary: So by undertaking share repurchase firms increase the proportion of leverage in the capital structure of the firm, as a result the overall cost of capital is reduced. Then, share repurchase is gradually spread to other countries like UK, Canada, etc. Pertinent to its growing importance, over the years an enormous literature has emerged that deals with many facets of share repurchase. keywords: accounting; buyback; companies; company; earnings; finance; firms; hypothesis; journal; liquidity; management; market; offer; repurchase; share; share buyback; share repurchase; spread; stock; study cache: ajfa-9759.pdf plain text: ajfa-9759.txt item: #389 of 392 id: ajfa-989 author: Saleem, Kashif title: Time Varying Correlations between Stock and Bond returns: Empirical evidence from Russia date: 2011 words: 5172 flesch: 50 summary: Bond market returns are proxied by logarithmic returns on JP. Further, to analyze the dynamics of the time varying conditional correlations between the two assets we use the DCC-GARCH (1, 1) model proposed by Engle (2002). keywords: bond; correlation; dcc; finance; garch; journal; market; model; returns; stock; time cache: ajfa-989.pdf plain text: ajfa-989.txt item: #390 of 392 id: ajfa-99 author: Ku Ismail, Ku Nor Izah; Abdullah, Shamsul Nahar title: The Reliability of Corporate Quarterly Financial Reports in Malaysia: Post-MASB 26 Evidence date: 2010 words: 9423 flesch: 54 summary: In the Unites States of America (US), requirements to issue quarterly reports were introduced in 1970 when companies were required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publish quarterly income reports on Form 10Q. Keywords: Quarterly reports, MASB 26, Reliability of interim reports, Earnings management, Exceptional items. keywords: accounting; board; companies; earnings; eis; journal; management; masb; method; ownership; quarter; reporting; reports cache: ajfa-99.pdf plain text: ajfa-99.txt item: #391 of 392 id: ajfa-9917 author: Hsu, Chih-shun; Yen, Sin-hui; Lai, Wei-hung title: The Effect of Problem-Based Learning on Learning Outcomes of Accounting Students date: 2016 words: 7472 flesch: 51 summary: Section 3 describes the research method, including the experiment design and survey on the perceptions of PBL students and the results are presented in Section 4. They found PBL students were less prone to depression, anxiety, hostility and somatic complaints than were their traditional counterparts. keywords: accounting; control; difference; education; group; journal; knowledge; learning; outcomes; pbl; problem; score; students; teaching cache: ajfa-9917.pdf plain text: ajfa-9917.txt item: #392 of 392 id: ajfa-997 author: Dash, Mihir; Dutta, Anirban; Sabharwal, Mohit title: SEASONALITY AND MARKET CRASHES IN INDIAN STOCK MARKETS date: 2011 words: 4012 flesch: 58 summary: It was found that the combined month effects were not statistically significant in the presence of crash effects, while the combined crash effects were highly statistically significant in the presence of month effects. The objective of this study is to explore the interplay between the month-of-the-year effect and market crash effects on monthly returns in Indian stock markets. keywords: crash; effect; january; journal; market; month; returns; stock cache: ajfa-997.pdf plain text: ajfa-997.txt