Although theory suggests that companies would rationally select into audit even if it were not a legal requirement, many countries impose mandatory audits. This is arguably due to an audit having elements of a public good, which may result in not enough audits being purchased without regulatory intervention. The mandatory nature of public company audit has created problems for researchers wishi...

Materials and methods A literature review was performed for selected indicators of benchmarking. This study used secondary data (financial statements) to identify industry standards for hospitals. Data on hospital expenditures of public hospitals were categorised into 5 groups (input mix), which included salary, compensation, drugs, material supply and other expenses. In addition, selected fina...

The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) was set up in March 2011, and was tasked with the role of rewriting and harmonising financial sector legislations. It came out with a report (FSLRC report) and the draft Indian Financial Code (IFC) in March 2013. Prior to making its final recommendations, FSLRC had issued an approach paper in October 2012, to which Consumer Unity & Tru...

Financial Globalization and Monetary Policy* The process of financial globalization has significantly altered the environment in which national monetary policy authorities operate. What implications does this have for the design of monetary policy? The question can be properly addressed only in the context of a model where monetary policy interacts with financial market efficiency. This paper i...

The financial viability of programme services and product offerings requires that revenue exceeds expenses. Revenue includes payments for services and products as well as donor cash and in-kind contributions. Expenses reflect consumption of purchased or contributed time and materials and utilization (depreciation) of physical plant facilities and equipment. Standard financial reports contain th...

We examine how firms evaluate and compensate their chief financial officers (CFOs). CFOs participate in decision making much like other executives, but unlike most other executives they have fiduciary responsibilities for reporting firms’ financial results and safeguarding the integrity of financial reporting. Responsibility for financial reporting raises the question of whether it is appropria...

The issue of stock market usefulness is, in fact, related to the specific disclosure environment prevailing in a country. Croatian capital market is underdeveloped and has limited significance in the financial system. This paper deals with the usefulness of financial statement information and it is organized in the following way: in the first part we give a brief overview of capital markets in ...

The core objective of this project is to analyze the impact of interest rates changes on the profitability of commercial banks being operated in Pakistan by examining the financial statements of four major banks during 2008 to 2012. Like the efficiency of banking sector is considered most important for economic growth, monetary policy implementation and macro-economic stability. From the past f...

A neoclassical growth model is augmented by a corporate sector, financial intermediation, and a set of tax rates. In this setting, capital structure is determined by the interplay between a tax advantage of debt finance and costly state verification entailed by asymmetric information. Effects of capital tax reforms are investigated with a special focus on this micro-founded credit channel of ta...

In general, conglomeration leads to a diversification of risks (the diversification benefit) and to a decrease in shareholder value (the conglomerate discount). Diversification benefits in financial conglomerates are typically derived without accounting for reduced shareholder value, even though a comprehensive analysis requires competitive conditions within the conglomerate, i.e., shareholders...