Preventing financial statement frauds through better corporate governance

Does corporate governance make financial reports better, or just better for equity investors?

Financial reports should provide useful information to both shareholders and creditors, according to U.S. accounting principles. However, directors of corporations have fiduciary duties only toward equity holders, and those fiduciary duties normally do not extend to the interests of creditors. We examine whether this slant in corporate governance biases financial reports in favor of equity inve...

Managerial Preferences , Corporate Governance , and Financial Structure ∗

Conflicts of interest between insiders (e.g, controlling shareholders) and outsiders (e.g., minority shareholders) are central to the analysis of modern corporation. In an integrated continuous-time contingent claims framework with imperfect corporate governance, we examine a controlling shareholder’s optimal choice of capital structure, ownership concentration, private benefit diversion, consu...

Impact of Corporate Governance on Financial Performance

The purpose of the study is to determine the structural relationship between corporate governance and financial performance. The study develops a model linking corporate governance and financial performance then verifies it through structural equation modeling based on partial least square. The study is based on random sample of all Karachi Stock Exchange listed companies. Data related to corpo...

Impact of Corporate Governance on Corporate Financial Performance

Corporate governance is the new buzz-word in corporate world these days. It is viewed as a moral duty. It involves promoting the compliance of law in letter and spirit and demonstrating ethical conduct. The relationship between corporate governance and financial performance has caught wide attention of researchers in the last decade. Numerous researches have been conducted in past to investigat...

Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance Paper: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS