... between overall corporate governance practice and firm market value are limited, but work by Gompers etal (2003), Black (2001), Bebchuk etal (2004), and Brown and r Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007 ... firm value In contrast, Himmelberg etal (1999) suggest that managerial ownership and firm performance are determined by a common set of characteristics and question the causal relation between ... 15 per cent of the total number of listed companies, the firms chosen account for almost 90 per cent of total market capitalization and almost 80 per cent of the total market turnover Previous...
... dividends to total earnings 0.096 0.673 Dividends to sales Cash dividends to sales 0.014 0.166 Assets The company’s total assets 625 620 038 420 Debt to Assets Total debt to assets 0.517 0.389 ... taxes to total assets 0.020 0.132 Tobin's q Market value of equity plus the book value of liabilities to book value of assets 1.417 2.420 Dividends to cash flow Cash dividends to total earnings ... negative net present value 15 References Allen, F., Bernardo, A and Welch, I (2000) A Theory of Dividends Based on Tax Clienteles, Journal of Finance, 55, 2499-2536 Allen, F., Bartiloro, L and Kowalewski,...
... Anderson et al. , 2004) and no relation (Bardard et al. , 2004; Abbott et al. , 2004), contingent upon practical situations As an expansion in personnel increases both the board’s overall professional ... 1996; Abbott et al. , 2000; Chtourou et al. , 2001; Abbott et al. , 2004; Bedard et al. , 2004) The guidelines stipulate that at least one of the indepedent directors should be an financial or accounting ... general model of prevailing board studies as a theoretical basis and set up three Board characteristics and quality of financial reporting 387 regression equations to explore the correlation between...
... earnings, both scaled by total assets (#6) and SIZE; TotalSales Segmenti COMPLEX ϭ N LN Segmenti TotalSales iϭ1 where TotalSales is company sales revenue for 2001 and Segmenti represents the sales for ... natural logarithm of total assets (#6); TRANSPARENCY ϭ descending decile rank of absolute value of residual from regression of annual returns on annual earnings (#18), and changes in annual earnings, ... measures of expertise utilized in Balsam etal (2003) However, Balsam etal (2003) defined expertise on a national rather than state basis An alternative interpretation of a positive association...
... international audit policy arena to critical, but constructive analysis Finally, although Spanish academic accounting research is assuming a growing international prominence, this paper, by seeking ... Cameran et al. , 2003, p 5) In fact, the level of concentration reported is similar to that reported for other countries (Pong, 1999 for the UK position; Carrera et al. , 2005 for Spain; Wolk et al. , ... highlights the political nature of audit regulatory processes in Spain and also casts additional light on the professional status of auditors in Spain Finally, the case allows for an assessment...
... market-to-book ratio defined as its market value of equity divided by book values LEV = A firm’s total assets less its book value divided by its total assets ROA = the firm’s return-on-asset ratio ... etal (2003) (hereafter ALM) use a more refined measure of discretionary accruals and not find a statistically significant association between non-audit fees and positive discretionary accruals ... (see also Butler etal 2004) Thus, we focus on positive REDCA, but also conduct tests on the total sample as well as on the sub-sample of firms with negative discretionary accruals Following ALM,...
... the relation between auditor tenure and discretionary accruals Using the amount of discretionary accruals as a measure of earnings quality, both Johnson etal (2002) and Myers etal (2003) find ... 8); ΔREV = change in annual net revenue (Compustat data item 12); DA = discretionary accruals equal to the model residuals All variables are scaled by average total assets for the year To mitigate ... auditor-client relationships may also be detrimental to audit quality Further, while we observe a positive relation between tenure and the use of discretionary accruals to meet or beat earnings in the...
... Walker etal above In stark contrast to other studies using accruals as a measure of earnings quality, Nagy finds earnings quality improves after the switch, although for only the smaller half ... that have opted to retain auditors on a long-term basis The second advantage in this market is that the State Auditor General evaluates the quality of the audited financial statements of the ... Based on the experimental results of Dopuch etal (2001), we expect short term rotators to be associated with better reporting quality than non-rotators with long tenures Analysis and Results 4.1...
... between overall corporate governance practice and firm market value are limited, but work by Gompers etal (2003), Black (2001), Bebchuk etal (2004), and Brown and r Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007 ... firm value In contrast, Himmelberg etal (1999) suggest that managerial ownership and firm performance are determined by a common set of characteristics and question the causal relation between ... 15 per cent of the total number of listed companies, the firms chosen account for almost 90 per cent of total market capitalization and almost 80 per cent of the total market turnover Previous...
... dividends to total earnings 0.096 0.673 Dividends to sales Cash dividends to sales 0.014 0.166 Assets The company’s total assets 625 620 038 420 Debt to Assets Total debt to assets 0.517 0.389 ... taxes to total assets 0.020 0.132 Tobin's q Market value of equity plus the book value of liabilities to book value of assets 1.417 2.420 Dividends to cash flow Cash dividends to total earnings ... negative net present value 15 References Allen, F., Bernardo, A and Welch, I (2000) A Theory of Dividends Based on Tax Clienteles, Journal of Finance, 55, 2499-2536 Allen, F., Bartiloro, L and Kowalewski,...
... Kingdom (Bauer et al. , 2004), Germany (Drobetz et al. , 2004), Russia (Black, 2001), Korea (Black et al. , 2006), the United States (Gompers et al. , 2003), and several emerging markets (Klapper and ... Therefore, when analyzing the relationship between returns and corporate governance, it is important to correct for these effects (see Bauer et al. , 2004; Bebchuk et al. , 2004; Gompers et al. , 2003) ... presents the average global overall rating for all countries evaluated by GMI Average ratings are computed for the August 2004 evaluation All firms (financials and non-financials) are included accountability,...
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