Conservative Financial Reporting and Resilience to the Financial Crisis

Investigating the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Conservative Accounting and Transparency of Banking Information

The phenomenon of the financial crisis is not a new phenomenon around the world. The structure of an economy or a set of economies may face a financial crisis. In fact, it is deformation, dimensions, causes and roots of the financial crisis which create a state of change from this crisis. Recently, evidence has shown that the market value of firms subject to bankruptcy is significantly reduced....

The Islamic Financial Reporting Goals and convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS

According to some accountants, financial reporting in the islamic countries should be based on fairness, goodness and morality. This study examined the possibility of modifying the conventional framework for reporting in line with Islamic accounting objectives and to adapt the process of recognition and reporting financial events in accordance with the Shari'a principles. The research method is...

Financial Structure and Financial Crisis

For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

Business strategy and financial reporting readability

Business strategy exerts a considerable impact on complexities, risk and corporate environmental uncertainties as well as the way of providing financial reporting. On this line of argument, therefore, the present study seeks to scrutinize the effect of business strategy on corporate financial reporting readability. In doing so, Fog and Fletch indices are employed to measure financial reporting ...

Financial market crisis and financial market channel