Download or read book Transparency of Accounting Information in Achieving Good Corporate Governance True View and Fair Value written by Mariana Man and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key factors affecting the efficient use of resources, the increase of shareholders confidence in the managers of the company, the success in achieving objectives and economic efficiency is the system of corporate governance by which a company is managed and controlled.
Download or read book The Accountant s Role in Corporate Governance Global Unified Transparency and Disclosure Criteria for Financial Reporting written by Michelle Simbulan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: Post graduate, , language: English, abstract: This study investigated the principles and criteria for transparency and disclosure in financial reporting and the accountant’s contribution facilitating its implementation. Corporate governance stands upon several principles, raised from the Cadbury report, Principles of Corporate Governance, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It includes rights and equitable treatment of shareholders, interests of stakeholders, role and responsibilities of the board, integrity and ethical behavior, and disclosure and transparency. Disclosure and transparency are one of the principles of corporate governance that aims to inform the public of the roles and responsibilities of the board and management in order to provide stakeholders with a level of accountability. It also includes the implementation of procedures to independently verify and safeguard the integrity of the company’s financial reporting..
Download or read book Building Public Trust written by Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business reporting in a post-apocalypse global marketplace Clearly, now is the time for creating an effective business-reporting model appropriate for the markets of the twenty-first century. Rather than start from scratch after the Enron-Andersen fiasco, two leading consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers present a plan that supplements the current model, one in which executives, accountants, analysts, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders can truly embrace the spirit of transparency. The Future of Corporate Reporting highlights the best practices for global financial reporting, explaining the concept of "performance auditing," which focuses on the real performance of the business as opposed to technical adherence to GAAS. Eccles and Masterson also discuss the pros and cons of GAAP v. IAS, present new approaches to reforming financial reporting, and outline a twenty-first-century model of accounting that will improve markets and benefit shareholders.
Download or read book Earnings Management and Corporate Finance written by Joanna Lizińska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's dynamic landscape of accounting, corporate finance, and business management, earnings management has assumed paramount importance. Transparent and reliable accounting information is crucial for accurate corporate performance forecasting and financial decision-making. This book uniquely discusses practical earnings management methods within the accounting and taxation realms. It is supported by extensive international evidence linking informativeness of financial reports to companies’ financial decisions. Delving into the earnings management process, this book provides profound insights into how profits can be influenced through accounting choices and real business transactions. Real-life case studies will undoubtedly facilitate the understanding of accounting and taxation methods. Additionally, it unravels key elements of corporate finance puzzles related to the transparency of financial reports, including the macroeconomic environment, profit thresholds, cash management, audit quality, financing decisions, and financial health. With broad empirical evidence from various European countries, it multidimensionally explores the important link between the quality of information in financial statements and trade-offs behind financial decisions. The book serves as a valuable reference for international researchers in corporate finance, accounting, and corporate governance. It is also a powerful tool for business practitioners, including owners, lenders, auditors, regulatory and professional bodies, business partners, or other market participants. For those seeking the latest insights on earnings management, those producing or assessing accounting information, and those using financial reports in their research or business practice, this book is a must-read.
Download or read book Transparency in Information and Governance written by J. Jay Choi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this volume we have collected 12 original research papers dealing with various issues relating to transparency. This topic spans many disciplines beyond accounting and finance, intersecting economics, law and management, embracing sociology and political science, and offering opportunities for creative interdisciplinary research. We hope this v
Download or read book Transparency in Accounting and Corporate Governance written by Mitchell Stein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls for greater transparency of accounting information were consistent in media discourse after the accounting crisis early this century. Our analysis of the media suggests different emergent meanings were associated with these calls of transparency and an underlying 'taken for grantedness'. We examine how this 'taken for grantedness' contributed to preserving the status quo rather than greater accountability. We posit that for many observers a loss of meaning of accounting information led to attempts to make sense of what actions are necessary to construct a meaning of accounting information. We find that academic accounting research's response had a narrow focus relating to representation and accessibility of information to permit decision making, the ocular metaphor of transparency. In contrast, the social science research literature highlights the 'invisible' in transparency or the construction of meaning through sensemaking. By extending sensemaking to the macro level we show how stakeholders construct meanings of transparency to rationalize events around the crisis. We find that senior management engaged in high levels of sensegiving via dominant media accounts of vague pledges and actions to increase transparency that provide a plausible story of events and the belief that the necessary actions have been taken, but effectively maintains the status quo. Accountants and regulators provided low and fragmented levels of sensegiving, offering little direction over the discourse of transparency. Our analysis suggests that accountants and regulators need to provide higher forms of sensegiving to create richer accounts and more coherent actions that could provide alternatives to senior management's accounts.
Download or read book The Illusion of Transparency in Corporate Governance written by Finn Janning and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality. From a philosophical perspective, society has experienced a gradual paradigm shift which intensified after the Second World War with the advent of the information era. As a fundamental part of an inescapable, hegemonic capitalist system and given the insistent emphasis on it as a moral imperative, transparency, this book avers, needs to be examined and challenged as to its true governance value in building a sustainable twenty-first century society. Rather than clinging to the fantasy of complete transparency as the only form of accountability, corporate governance is strengthened in this way by practicing true social responsibility, which emerges not from outward-looking compliance but from a deeper place in the corporate psyche through inward-looking contemplation and the development of moral maturity.
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Fair Value Accounting written by Shane Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall objective of this dissertation is to investigate the interface between both firm- and country-level corporate governance mechanisms and fair value accounting for a sample of international financial institutions in the post-financial crisis period. In order to meet this objective, I conduct two studies investigating different aspects of the fair value hierarchy and the role of corporate governance. The first study investigates the impact of firm- and country-level corporate governance mechanisms on the relevance and reliability of the estimates provided by the fair value hierarchy. This is examined for a sample of publicly listed banks from Canada and the European Union and extends the scant literature on the interface between corporate governance and fair value accounting. The results show that, contrary to prior research, investors do not consider level 3 fair value estimates to be reliable enough to be incorporated into firm value and thus, are not value relevant. Further testing, however, reveals that corporate governance mechanisms act in such a manner as to increase the perceived reliability of level 3 fair value estimates such that investors do consider them to be value relevant. Moreover, the results suggest that, in the context of value relevance decisions, firm- and country-level governance mechanisms act as substitutes for one another. The second study investigates the potential for the fair value hierarchy to act as an alternative vehicle for earnings management in banks, and the role that firm- and country-level corporate governance plays in impacting the relationship between two competing earnings management methods. Extant earnings management literature on financial institutions focuses on the use of the loan loss provision to manage earnings. However, the recent change in accounting standards towards fair value accounting has provided an alternative vehicle for earnings management, specifically through level 2 and level 3 fair value measurements. The results show that level 2 fair values do not appear to be a viable tool to manage earnings. However, after accounting for the effect of either firm- or country-level corporate governance, the results suggest that level 3 fair values can act as an alternative earnings management tool. Managers faced with high (low) governance report lower (higher) levels of discretionary loan loss provisions as the proportion of level 3 assets increases. Moreover, additional analyses provide preliminary results suggesting that, in the context of earnings management, firm- and country-level governance mechanisms act as complements for one another.
Download or read book International Corporate Reporting written by Pauline Weetman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of international corporate reporting which enhances students’ understanding of diversity and convergence in the field. The authors discuss the institutional and cultural context in which international corporate reporting has developed over the years as well as the global reach of IFRS Standards from the IASB throughout and beyond the European Union, into interest groups and emerging economies. Other key elements explored throughout the book include assurance through auditing and corporate governance, narrative reporting, strategic and corporate social responsibility, group accounting, current accounting issues and taxation in corporate reports. Indicative research examples show how the methods used in research papers may be understood and applied. Case studies outline short projects based on corporate cases, with related links to material on corporate websites. Helpful and reliable sources of information and data are identified through hyperlinks to accessible websites. End-of-chapter questions encourage discussion of the main issues. Throughout there is a focus on accountability and the information needs of stakeholders. This new edition of a classic text is fully revised and updated in order to remain essential reading for students of international accounting and corporate reporting globally. The book will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate taught programmes and final-year undergraduate courses in accounting, finance and business studies.
Download or read book Adoption of Anglo American models of corporate governance and financial reporting in China written by Huiying Wu and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the adoption of Anglo-American models of corporate governance and financial reporting in China. It shows how the loose coupling between regulations and actual operations is shaped by the interplay between institutional pressures and organizations conflicts of interest and power dependence within the local context.
Download or read book Critical Issues on the Enforcement of the True and Fair View Accounting Principle Learning from Parmalat written by Andrea Melis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses and discusses the quot;positivequot; issues of the overriding international financial reporting standards principle of quot;true and fair viewquot; in connection with corporate governance mechanisms. The analysis is based on case study evidence. Empirical evidence from the Parmalat case with regards to the role of the information supply and demand side agents is analysed. This study provides evidence on how the relationship between corporate financial reporting and corporate governance mechanisms may influence the enforcement of the international financial reporting standards overriding principle of quot;true and fair viewquot;.Evidence is found that the enforcement of the quot;true and fair viewquot; principle is intrinsically flawed when the accountability and the overall corporate governance systems do not work properly. Some evidence is also found for the argument that a lack in the quality of information supplied by the corporate financial system hurdles the role information demand side agents as effective monitors.
Download or read book Transparency in Financial Reporting written by Ruth Ann McEwen and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By January 2012, all major economies will provide financial reports using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This authoritative book provides all the essential information required for advanced practitioners and analysts at this critical juncture.
Download or read book Transparency in Government Operations written by Mr.J. D. Craig and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.
Download or read book Non financial Disclosure and Integrated Reporting written by Lino Cinquini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly crucial role of companies’ non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting. Through several expert contributions, conducted both with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book provides an up-to-date portrait of the debate by exploring corporate NFD either in its mandated contents or voluntary information. Contributing authors provide studies that encompass the different lines of NFD, namely non-financial risk reporting, sustainability reporting, and intellectual capital reporting, as well as the integration of financial and non-financial information through IR, the assurance of the NFD and IR through auditing activities, and the role of management and CFOs in NFD and IR.
Download or read book Comparative Research on Earnings Management Corporate Governance and Economic Value written by Vieira, Elisabete S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New trends are emerging regarding earnings management and corporate governance showing similarities and striking differences in the practices of different countries and economies. These new trends currently shape the field of modern corporate governance with crucial issues being looked at in governance law and practices, accounting systems, earnings quality and management, stakeholder involvement, and more. In order to advance these new avenues in corporate governance, research looks at accounting policies firms use in different opportunistic circumstances in order to manage earnings, the corporate governance practices in different countries, firm performance, and other dimensions of companies. The understanding of these topics is beneficial in understanding the current state of different types of firms and their practices in modern times. Comparative Research on Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, and Economic Value is focused on the investigation of key challenges and perspectives of corporate governance and earnings management and outlines possible scenarios of its development. The chapters explore this new avenue of research and cover theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies related to different themes in the global context of earnings management and corporate governance. This book is ideal for economists, businesses, managers, accountants, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in the current issues and advancements in corporate governance and earnings management.
Download or read book Fostering Accuracy and Transparency in Financial Reporting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Accountability of Financial Institutions written by Jonas Abraham Akuffo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of sound corporate governance in a financial institution is important in maintaining the confidence of both the market and the public. The power that corporate governance holds over the success of some of the largest financial institutions in the world is not to be downplayed. This book methodically assesses the quality of corporate governance and mechanisms of accountability disclosures to various stakeholders. It is further intended to provide fresh insights into some specific corporate governance recommendations to help improve good governance in financial institutions, particularly in the United Kingdom and the EU but will also be applicable to other major economies. It explores what, when and how corporate governance has changed the financial institution functions and corporate executive behaviour by critically reviewing the pre- and post-financial crisis theoretical and empirical literature. Increasingly driven by the nature of complications, complexities and opacity in the operations of financial systems, corporate governance reporting plays an important role in the financial sector. It will provide insights into corporate governance disclosures over a long-term basis. This book should be a valuable asset to support the research of practitioners, students and all academics due to its stimulating and reflective insights into this fascinating topic.
