SYNOPSIS Using a broad sample of U.K. firms that are required to disclose auditor materiality thresholds under the International Standards on Auditing (United Kingdom and Ireland) 700, we examine whether threshold is associated with audit quality. We document lower higher quality, as measured by absolute discretionary accruals, accruals propensity just meet or beat analysts’ earnings expectatio...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. The Research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from Iran stock market. Empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by Value Added Intellectual Coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

We show that the determinants and economic implications of the primary loan loss indicators reported in financial reports—non-performing loans (NPL), the allowance and provision for loan losses (ALL and PLL), and net loan charge-offs (NLCO)—vary dramatically across real estate, commercial, and consumer loan types, because these types differ in their homogeneity and collateralization and thus in...

<p><em><span lang="IN"><strong>ABSTRACT :</strong> This study examines the effect of earnings management to annual report readability. uses data from non-financial sector companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for period (2014-2018) with a total 825 observations. The collection technique purposive sampling and analysis multiple regression methods. Based...

This study examines the role of board independence and audit committee expertise in accounting on earnings management small listed firms Malaysia, which have been neglected corporate governance research. Due to their size, listing requirements imposed them by Bursa Malaysia are less stringent. Hence, these predicted a higher tendency manage compared large firms. All ACE Market during financial ...

The Iranian economy in recent years is due to the development of economic sanctions, a sharp decline in the price of oil and the deficit resulting from revenue - dependent on oil revenues and the trend towards tax revenues. While comparing the volume of the Iranian economy with the amount of tax income indicates the existence of a relatively significant tax gap. The tax gap is the difference be...