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McBride, Freda D. H. "Memory Bias in the Use of Accounting Information: An Examination of Affective Responses and Retrieval of Information in Accounting Decision Making." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30551.
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This dissertation is based on the Kida-Smith (1995) model of "The encoding and retrievability of numerical data." It is concerned with the variable conditions under which a positive affective response (i.e., a decision or opinion that results in a positive valence) on previously viewed accounting information may and may not influence current decision-making.
An affective response to accounting numbers may adversely influence decisions made based on those numbers. Prior research has found that individuals recall information that is consistent with prior decisions more readily than they recall inconsistent information. Research has also shown that current judgements are biased toward prior decisions or judgements. These biases may cause current decisions to be suboptimal or dysfunctional.
Two 2x2 experiments were conducted to examine four hypotheses. These hypotheses concerned (1) the influence of an affective response on an investment decision when the differences between two sets of accounting numbers are small and when the differences are large, (2) the influence of an affective response on the recall of numerical data, (3) the influence of time on the recall of numerical data given an affective response, and (4) the influence of an affective response on an investment decision when the level of cognitive processing at the time the affective response is produced is low and when the level of processing is high.
The first experiment used graduate students in an accounting course to investigate the influence of differences between numerical amounts on decision making. It also investigated the influence of time between the encoding and retrieval on recall of numerical amounts.
The second experiment used accounting practitioners to investigate the influence of differences between numerical amounts on decision making, and to examine the influence of different levels of cognitive processing at the time of encoding on decision making.
Results indicate that an affective response does produce suboptimal decisions. In the case of accounting practitioners, however, the influence of the affective response is mitigated when the magnitude of the difference between the accounting numbers previously viewed and those undergoing current examination is large rather than small.
The affective response did not significantly influence the recall of numerical amounts. There was no significant change in the influence of the affective response on recalled amounts with increased time between encoding and retrieval. Also, there were no significant changes in decision-making with increased processing at the time of encoding.Ph. D.
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Shen, Rui. "Two essays on empirical accounting /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ACCT%202009%20SHEN.
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Williamson, Russell. "WAGE DISPARITY IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION AND INFORMATION QUALITY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/accountancy_etds/11.
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Does wage disparity, measured as the difference between highest and lowest paid workers, affect the quality of reported financial information? I collect accounting professional wage data from an international accounting and finance employment placement firm for the period of 1972 to 2017. I investigate to what degree wage disparity in corporate and public accounting has affected accounting information quality by testing predictions derived from equity theory and tournament theory. I find that vertical wage disparity within, as well as horizontal wage disparity between, corporate and public accounting is associated with measures of the relevance and reliability of accounting information. Specifically, pay disparity within corporate accounting is associated with a significant reduction in earnings persistence, in the earnings-returns relationship, in the accruals-cashflow relationship, and with higher levels of absolute abnormal accruals. In tests of pay disparity within the public accounting profession I find evidence of improved information quality associated with higher pay disparity. These findings are consistent with the different structures of employment and career advancement within the corporate and public accounting professions.
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Henderson, Elsie. "Users' Perceptions of Financial Statement Note Disclosure and the Theory of Information Overload." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10150219.
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The purpose of financial statement note disclosures is to provide additional, relevant information useful for decision-making. There has been a significant increase in financial statement note disclosure over time, which has resulted in concerns there is now information overload in these note disclosures and there are questions about the relevance of some financial statement note disclosures. The purpose of this qualitative, embedded, single-case study was to determine financial statement note disclosure users’ perceptions about notes (i.e., relevance and use in decision-making; readability and comprehension; and differences across user classes) in order to inform standard setters and extend the theory of information overload to financial statement note disclosure. Participants in this study were 15 users of financial statements in Eastern Canada and included 4 creditors, 3 financial analysts, 5 investors, and 3 accountants. Interviews were conducted to gather data on users’ perceptions of financial statement note disclosures. Data was analyzed with MAXQDA 12 software to identify themes and answer the study research questions. Current findings were users perceive financial statement note disclosures are an integral part of financial statements; however, many notes are not read by users, indicating these notes are not relevant and useful for users’ decision making. Further users perceive the readability and comprehension of financial statement note disclosures is low. As a result there are few financial statement note disclosures that are read in detail by users. However, some users prefer transparency and perceive more disclosure means more transparency. Based on current findings it was recommended standard setters and preparers place more emphasis on succinct writing, continue education on the application of materiality, and emphasize more disclosure does not mean more transparency. Recommendations for future research included performing the current study with a larger sample.
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Senik, Rosmila. "Understanding information technology skills development in undergraduate accounting programme : a grounded theory study." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444951.
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Basu, Somnath. "Information, expectations and equilibrium: Trading volume hypotheses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185109.
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In analyses of the relationship between information and price-volume reactions, the role of investor expectations is often considered implicitly. Not allowing investors to either disagree among each other or remain uninformed is a consequence of the assumption of a free and perfect information flow. A more flexible definition of information allows the observation that trading volume is an accurate reflector of investor expectations and contains valuable information about price movements. Trading volume is also used to empirically show the effects of imperfect information and the inappropriateness of the event study method.
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Eldaly, Mohamed Khaled. "Effects of the new regulations of the audit profession on the audit firms' strategies." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294283.
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The audit firms play an important role in the capital markets by verifying that auditors provide reliable information to the decision makers. However, trust in auditing firms has been questioned following Enron‘s failure and accounting scandals at WorldCom and other companies. As a result, Arthur Anderson failed and the number of big audit firms fell to four firms and no one knows who might be next. Defond and Francis (2005) believe that a critical trigger occurred when Deloitte & Touch issued a “clean” peer review report on Arthur Andersen in December 2001, just a few weeks before Andersen publicly announced that it had shredded documents related to Enron audit. The credibility and integrity of the profession‘s self-regulation program was immediately in doubt. To protect public interests and to restore confidence in the capital markets, the USA government issued the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002. Similarly, the Financial Reporting Council in the UK provided the Professional Oversight Board with similar mission. This thesis aims to explore the role of independent audit regulators in promoting confidence in the audit profession, and analyse the big four firms’ strategies that react toward these regulatory changes in the audit markets. The lack of studies in this area supports the use of grounded theory as a research methodology. 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the top management level of the audit regulators and big four firms’ partners. This study contributes to the literature as it provides a better understanding of the satisfaction of the big four audit firms toward the new independent regulators, and how these firms react toward the additional requirements of the independent inspectors.
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Checon, Bianca Quirantes. "Limited attention, the use of accounting information and its impacts on individual investment decision making." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12136/tde-24082018-153805/.
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As technology and capital markets complexity increases, so does the amount of accounting information disclosed by companies in their financial reports. Nowadays, we reached an impasse, where it is questionable if more information will in fact reduce information asymmetry. Previous authors strongly criticize the length of financial statements and annual reports, arguing that they should communicate more rather than just be voluminous as the current volume of information can be counterproductive to the average individual to acquire, retain and process all available information. Based on evidence of previous accounting literature on presentation format and the psychology theories of attribution theory and cognitive load theory, we hypothesize that, by manipulating accounting information using a more general accessible format such as the narrative one, individual investors are able to better understand accounting information and, thereafter, make a more effective use of it versus the concurrent non-fundamental information available in a standard investment decision making setting. To achieve our research goal, we use a mixed method research strategy with an Exploratory Sequential Design: the qualitative method act as a preparation for the quantitative one. Concerning the qualitative method, we interview- using the Q methodology approach - 31 subjects, being 13 analysts/professional investors and 18 individual investors. Our objective in this phase is to identify patterns in the usage of accounting/non-accounting information by analysts/professional investors, in contrast to individual investors\' information choices. By doing so, we can use the obtained results to base our experimental information choices regarding (a) which accounting information pieces were most preferable to professional investors and (b) the information presentation sequence to be followed in the experimental setting. Next, we develop a 2 X 2 between-subjects experimental design in which we manipulate the presentation format of a hypothetical company between the traditional \'tabular and footnotes\' design versus the narrative content-only design. We also vary the financial performance between \'good\' and \'bad\' to check if the variables of interest would impact (a) investment propensity on the company\'s shares and (b) the amount of information retrieved from memory. As our main results, we find that the narrative format per se does not impact investment propensity and that the alternative presentation format is beneficial for participants with less than 5 years of investment experience in capital markets in the poor financial performance condition, adjusting their investment propensity to the same investment propensity level of more experienced investors.A medida que a complexidade da tecnologia e dos mercados de capitais aumentou, o montante da informação contábil divulgada pelas empresas em seus relatórios financeiros também aumentou. Atualmente, chegamos a um impasse, onde é questionável se mais informações reduzem a assimetria de informações. Autores anteriores criticam fortemente o tamanho das demonstrações financeiras e relatórios anuais, argumentando que eles devem comunicar mais ao invés de apenas serem volumosos, já que o atual volume de informações pode ser contraproducente para o indivíduo médio adquirir, reter e processar todas as informações disponíveis. Com base na evidência de literatura contábil anterior sobre o formato de apresentação e as teorias de psicologia, teoria da atribuição e teoria da carga cognitiva, temos a hipótese de que, ao manipular informações contábeis através de um formato amplamente mais acessível, como a narrativa, os investidores individuais serão capazes de compreender melhor as informações contábeis e, posteriormente, ter um uso mais proeminente delas em relação às atuais informações não fundamentais disponíveis para uma avaliação de decisão de investimento. Para alcançar nosso objetivo de pesquisa, utiliza-se uma estratégia de pesquisa de método misto com um Desenho Sequencial Exploratório, o método qualitativo atua como uma preparação para o quantitativo. Como método qualitativo, entrevistou-se - usando a abordagem da Metodologia Q - 31 sujeitos, sendo 13 analistas/investidores profissionais e 18 investidores individuais. O objetivo nesta fase foi entender o padrão de comportamento de uso de informações contábeis/não-contábeis por analistas/investidores profissionais, em comparação com as escolhas de informações de investidores individuais. Ao fazê-lo, puderam-se usar os resultados obtidos das entrevistas para basear as escolhas de informações experimentais em relação a (a) quais peças de informação contábil eram mais preferíveis aos investidores profissionais e (b) a sequência de apresentação de informações a seguir na configuração experimental. Em seguida, desenvolve-se um design experimental 2 x 2 entre os sujeitos em que manipulamos o formato de apresentação de uma empresa hipotética entre o design tradicional \'tabular e notas explicativas\' versus o design narrativo apenas de conteúdo. Foi alterado também o desempenho financeiro entre \'bom\' e \'ruim\' para verificar se as variáveis de interesse impactam (a) propensão de investimento nas ações da empresa e (b) a quantidade de informações recuperadas da memória. Como nossos principais resultados, identificamos que o formato narrativo individualmente não afeta a propensão de investimento e que o formato de apresentação alternativa beneficiou os participantes com menos de 5 anos de experiência de investimento nos mercados de capitais na condição de má performance financeira, ajustando sua propensão ao mesmo nível de investimento de investidores mais experientes.
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West, Mario. "Strategies to Manage Enterprise Information Technology Projects." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4578.
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Since 2005, most midsize company information technology (IT) projects had a 62.4% failure rate because of wrong project team communication skills or cost overruns. IT leaders expect negative IT project outcomes will cost over $2 billion by 2020. Using the actor-network theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies used by IT leaders from a midsize IT company in Washington, D.C. to plan and execute projects under budget and on time. Using purposeful sampling, 5 IT leaders were selected for this study because of their experience in implementing successful strategies for projects. Data were collected using face-to-face semistructured interviews, company documentation, and internal organizational risk reports. Yin's 5-step process was used for data analysis to compile, disassemble, reassemble, interpret, and conclude the data. The interpretation of data, subjected to methodological triangulation and member checking to strengthen the dependability and credibility of the findings, yielded 3 themes of IT leader communication skills: IT leader strategy, IT leader knowledge, and implementation of cost savings. The findings indicated that IT leaders serve as the key actors in the IT project network, and leader communication skills are essential for implementing strategies for IT project completion and cost savings. With this knowledge, IT leaders can implement strategies to plan and execute projects under budget and on time. The implications for a positive social change includes the potential for IT leaders to reduce project production waste and contribute to economic expansion.
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Elijido-Ten, Evangeline. "Extending the application of stakeholder theory to Malaysian corporate environmental disclosures." Swinburne Research Bank, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/38308.
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Thesis (PhD) - Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.A thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology - 2006. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246)
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Haedr, Adel Ramdan. "A contingency theory-based investigation of the role of management accounting information in management control systems in large manufacturing companies in Libya." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17521/.
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In an attempt to provide a better understanding of the design and use of effective management control systems (MCS) in a developing country, this research study adopts a contingency theory approach to investigate the role of management accounting information (MAI) in facilitating MCS in large manufacturing companies. Drawing the relevant literature on contingency theory, a framework is developed and forms the basis for investigating the possible influence of several contingent variables, including centralisation, formalisation, environmental uncertainty, manufacturing complexity and competitive strategy, on the effectiveness of MCS as well as the potential mediating effect of the usefulness of MAI on these relationships. Based on the findings of a questionnaire-based survey of 54 large manufacturing companies from different industrial sectors in Libya, this study identifies the role of MAI in facilitating MCS in these companies in terms of the four dimensions of scope, timeliness, aggregation and integration. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools are used to analyse the collected data, including independent t-test, correlation, simple and multiple regression. The study also utilises the Preacher and Hayes’s (2004) macro through the SPSS package to investigate mediation regression effects in the MAI/MCS relationship. The results of the descriptive analysis show that more bureaucratic MCS types - characterised as formal, tight, and impersonal controls - have been adopted in large manufacturing companies in Libya to motivate, control and direct different activities. In terms of competitive strategy, no pure cost leaders or differentiators were found; rather the responding companies consider various aspects of cost leadership and product differentiation priorities when shaping their competitive strategy. Apart from manufacturing process complexity, all other contingent variables studied were found to have a significant positive influence on MCS effectiveness in these manufacturing companies. Although each of the four MAI dimensions (i.e. scope, timeliness, aggregation, and integration) explored in this study was perceived useful in relation to planning and problem solving activities, it is the aggregated information that was perceived the most important, available, and, thus, useful information. Very importantly this study found that MAI usefulness accounts for a full (i.e. complete) mediation effect only on the relationship between centralisation and MCS effectiveness, while it accounts for a partial mediating role on the relationship between MCS effectiveness and the other three contingent variables of formalisation, environmental uncertainty, and competitive strategy. On the other hand, the usefulness of MAI transmitted the influence of manufacturing process complexity on MCS effectiveness indicating an indirect effect instead of a mediated relationship. The latter is a significant distinction not usually made in previous studies that examined interaction factors. Thus, this study contributes to the knowledge in this important area by distinguishing between mediation and indirect effects, in particular, and between full and partial mediation effects, in general. Finally, the main limitations of this study are outlined and opportunities for future research are suggested, particularly in relation to considering the moderating effect of a fourth variable on the mediation relationship (i.e. moderated mediation) in the interplay between MAI and management control system design and use.
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Cho, Charles. "ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY AND THE STRATEGIC USE OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION: THREE STUDIES RELATED TO SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4127.
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This dissertation consists of three separate, but inter-related, studies overarching a common theme labeled "the role played by social and environmental accounting disclosures using different methodologies and framed within legitimacy theory." The first study investigates the use of different language techniques in social and environmental disclosures (SED) and tests whether the impression management hypothesis holds when disclosures are measured as such. The second study extends the "legitimacy on the Internet" arguments of Patten and Crampton (2004) by examining the content and presentation of corporate website environmental disclosure in relation to firm environmental performance of four size-matched sample groups constructed based on industry environmental sensitivity and America's Toxic 100 membership (the top 100 polluters in the US). The third study investigates whether and how Total, one of the world's largest integrated oil and gas companies headquartered in France, utilized legitimation strategies such as social and environmental disclosures, to respond to two significant environmental incidents. Taken together, these three studies build upon prior theoretical and empirical work to substantiate and advance social and environmental accounting research using various methodological lenses and perspectives.Ph.D.
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Huang, Xiansong. "Respondent lobbying on the proposed disclosure information of goodwill impairment test and assumption." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3217.
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Goodwill accounting treatment has been a subject of heated debate for a long time in many countries around the world. Changing to international accounting standards and settings was much discussed in Sweden. International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) issued Exposure Drafts, which were related to goodwill accounting treatment in 2002. In this thesis, two respondents groups’ positions, regarding the disclosure information on goodwill impairment test, and assumption are examined by studying comment letters that submitted to the IASB. It is suggested that the two groups lobbied the proposal because the new standard has economic consequences. The result shows that, as hypothesized, non-preparer group supported more than the preparer group for disclosing variety information on goodwill impairment test and assumption. Furthermore, it would be interesting to see what kind of arguments from two different groups, and how they argue for their positions. The result is both groups used IASB framework are based on useful arguments to support their positions at the same extent, although the objects behind the lobbying activities are different from two groups.
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Payne, Carolyn. "ARE INVESTORS ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY USE THE VAST AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES? A DECISION THEORY APPROACH TO INVESTOR INFORMATION ANALYSIS." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/89.
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Stock market investors are making investment decisions in an information-rich environment. In their attempt to afford investors all the decision-relevant information, standard setters are continually adding to the already weighty load seemingly oblivious to the cognitive limitations of humans.
Information overload has long been recognized as a problem to decision-makers. The information overload literature is robust with studies supporting the inverted U hypothesis: Decision accuracy will increase with additional information to the point of maximum processing capability, then decline. The decision style literature has supported the theory that individuals can be classified according to the quantity of information that they are able to process effectively.
This study combined the two theories to develop hypotheses about how investors with differing decision styles might behave differently in an information-rich environment. The hypotheses were tested in an internet-based stock market investment experiment. In general, the study did not find significant differences in the decisions of investors with different decision styles. Though the results of the experiment failed to support most of the hypotheses, the study revealed some interesting facts about the investors who participated in this study. There was an unusually high concentration of the analytic decision style in this group. This style, according to the theory, is the one best able to manage high information processing demands. A further analysis of the respondent style dominance reveals that all of the styles had significant analytic influence. This could explain the lack of variation in the decision accuracy of the respondents.
It is also possible that the respondents in this study did not reach a point of information overload. Based on prior literature, the study incorporated ten information items. However, the particular items selected may not have created a sense of information overload for the respondents. Future research should increase the information available
to respondents and observe whether differences in decisions can be explained by differences in decision styles in an information overload situation. This study provides a baseline for future studies examining how investors make decisions when so much information is available.
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Hyvönen, J. (Johanna). "Linking management accounting and control systems, strategy, information technology, manufacturing technology and organizational performance of the firm in contingency framework." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2008. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514287091.
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This dissertation aims to provide an extensive picture of management accounting systems and explore the relationships between management accounting systems, strategy, information technology, manufacturing technology and organizational performance. The dissertation consists of four essays. The first essay focuses on the adoption and benefits of management accounting practices, whereas the second essay studies the relations between customer-focused strategy, performance measurement techniques, information technology and their link to customer performance. The third essay studies the relations between manufacturing technology, information technology, strategy and organizational performance. The fourth essay, in turn, studies the management accounting systems and their relations to strategy and information technology. The first three essays employ the survey method while the last essay employs the case method. The framework used in this dissertation is the contingency theory.
The results indicate that financial performance measures will be important in the future and that greater emphasis will be placed on contemporary management accounting practices such as customer satisfaction surveys and employee attitudes. Also, the relative benefits from the previous three years and the future emphasis in the next three years are generally greater when the size of the firm increases. The results show that there is a significant association between customer performance and the three-way interaction involving customer-focused strategy, contemporary performance measures and advanced information technology. The proposed three-way interaction between financial performance measures, customer-focused strategy and advanced information technology is not supported at conventional levels of statistical significance indicating that financial measures are not important in the model. The results also indicate that contemporary performance measures do not help highly customer-focused firms to achieve customer performance. For firms with a low customer-focus, emphasizing contemporary performance measures and advanced information technology assists in enhancing customer performance. The results also suggest that manufacturing technology and information technology together help firms to improve their organizational performance regardless of their emphasis on differentiation strategy.
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Araújo, Eduardo Bugallo de. "Um estudo sobre os efeitos nas demonstrações contábeis da aplicação do FASB 52 contraposto à correção monetária integral." Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, 2006. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/2805.
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A informação é o principal produto da contabilidade, e a sua confiabilidade está diretamente relacionada aos critérios e técnicas empregados na sua elaboração. As empresas norte-americanas estabelecidas no Brasil necessitam traduzir suas demonstrações contábeis pelos critérios estabelecidos pelo FASB, através do seu pronunciamento nº 52. É neste contexto que se desenvolve o presente estudo, onde o principal objetivo foi avaliar a conveniência do pronunciamento nº 52 do FASB para a qualidade da informação contábil, à luz da teoria da contabilidade, ao mesmo tempo em que se aplica um terceiro método de conversão, inspirado na Correção Monetária Integral. Para tanto, foi desenvolvida uma simulação das operações empresariais, onde cada operação foi convertida pelos métodos Câmbio de Fechamento, Monetário/não-monetário e Correção Monetária Integral. Através do método de pesquisa empregado, possibilitou-se concluir que a subjetividade de escolha da moeda funcional possibilita a obtenção de duas demonstrações contáb
Information is the main product of accounting and its confidence is directly connected with criterions and techniques used. To such an extend, the north american companies settled up in Brazil need to have translated their financials reporting by the criterions determined by FASB, thru its statement number 52. In this context is developed the present study. The main aim is to evaluate the convenience of the nº 52 statement from FASB concerning the quality of the accounting information under the light of the accounting’s theory. At the same time, a third method of conversion is presented inspired in the Integral Correction of Balance. In such a way, a simulation of enterprise’s operation is developed where each operation is converted by Closing Exchange Methods and Monetary/non-monetary besides a third method is suggested. The method of the research used gave us the chance to conclude that the subjectivity of choosing the functional coin makes possible to obtain two distinctive financials reporting so much as
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Senn, Juliette. "L’information comptable à caractère environnemental dans un cadre réglementaire : de la diffusion à l’utilisation de l’information." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTD029.
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Les années récentes ont été marquées par le renforcement des réglementations en matière de diffusion de l’information sociale et environnementale. Cette thèse s’intéresse à l'information comptable à caractère environnemental (ICE) dans ce contexte en pleine évolution. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre d’analyse de la théorie néo-institutionnelle et porte sur la notion de normativité. Trois études empiriques, traitant pour chacune d’elle une dimension du processus de diffusion de l’information sont menées. Elles sont toutes trois réalisées dans le cadre réglementaire français. Le premier article identifie comment les entreprises renseignent l’ICE et les stratégies qui en découlent face à la publication d'une nouvelle loi générale. À partir d’une analyse de contenu des rapports annuels de 96 sociétés cotées sur la période 2009-2014, les résultats montrent que l’introduction de la loi n’a pas favorisé une plus grande transparence dans l’ICE et l’on observe que les firmes qui y sont soumises choisissent différentes réponses. Le deuxième article se focalise sur les coulisses de ces stratégies de publication afin d'examiner la manière dont les producteurs de l’information s’organisent pour répondre aux règlementations auxquelles ils sont soumis. Les résultats d’une étude de 8 cas multiples montrent que deux stratégies distinctes apparaissent en fonction du type d'ICE. Le troisième article s’attache finalement à observer le comportement des utilisateurs de l’information financière en réaction aux stratégies de diffusion déployées par les entreprises. Nous observons l’évolution de leurs recommandations d’investissement et leurs perceptions quant à l’utilité perçue et la crédibilité accordée à l’ICE. À travers une étude expérimentale menée auprès de 145 participants, il s’avère que ces stratégies modifient la perception de l’utilité et de la crédibilité de cette information. L’ensemble de ces résultats contribue à la compréhension de la manière dont les entreprises (et les acteurs) développent des stratégies pour s’adapter à l’introduction de nouvelles réglementationsCorporate environmental reporting is becoming more and more widespread and regulated. This dissertation specifically focuses on environmental accounting information (EAI) in this context. Our research draws on neo-institutional theory and concerns the concept of normativity. Three empirical studies, each dealing with one dimension of the information disclosure process, are conducted. They are all carried out in the French regulatory context. The first study examines how companies disclose EAI and the strategies adopted after the adoption of a new law. Based on a content analysis of the annual reports of 96 listed companies over the period 2009-2014, the results show that the law did not favor greater transparency in the EAI and we observe that companies choose different reponses to the law. The second study focuses on behind the scenes of these strategies to identify how producers of information organize themselves to respond to the regulations they are subject to. The results of 8 case studies show that two distinct strategies appear depending on the type of EAI. The third study focuses on the users of information behavior and how they react to the firms’ disclosure strategies. We consider the point of view of financial analysts by investigating the effect of firms’ EAI disclosure strategies on investment recommendations and perceptions of this item (as regards to both the relevance and credibility of information). Through an experimental study conducted with 145 participants, it turned out that these strategies modify both the perception of relevance and credibility of information. Overall, the dissertation contributes to our understanding of how companies (and actors) develop strategies to adapt to the introduction of new regulations
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Silva, Carlos Eduardo Gomes da. "Compreensibilidade e disseminação da informação contábil: um enfoque na teoria semiótica." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2012. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/896.
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Several studies show that one of the major problems in understanding the accounting information relies on its terminology. Accordingly, this study aimed to understand how the communication process between journalists and companies Investors Relations areas is, in order to verify where the problems to understand accounting information are, considering that accounting information has a closed structure and its own taxonomy. The choice of journalists was due to the fact that they act as translators of accounting information received to the general public, while the Investors Relations area is seen as the spokesman for the company s shareholders, both considered, then, as a secondary source of accounting information. The survey covered as sample two hundred journalists and 155 companies that have shares listed on BM&F BOVESPA. Data were collected through a questionnaire containing open and closed questions, made available on the web and treated by techniques of content analysis and factor analysis. In general, the analysis of the results enabled to verify that journalists use the same sources of accounting information that the other external users, however there is not effective interaction with the Investor Relations areas. Additionally, it was found that accounting needs further simplification in its terminology, because it is seen that their translators cannot perfect fulfill this role.
Diversos estudos mostram que um dos maiores problemas da compreensão da informação contábil está em suas terminologias. Em vista disso, o presente estudo buscou compreender como se dá o processo de comunicação entre os jornalistas e as áreas de Relações com Investidores de empresas com o objetivo de verificar onde se encontram os problemas de compreensão da informação contábil, considerando-se que a mesma possui uma estrutura fechada e uma taxonomia própria. A escolha por jornalistas deveu-se ao fato de que os mesmos atuam como tradutores da informação contábil recebida para o grande público, enquanto a área de Relações com Investidores é entendida como o porta-voz da empresa para os acionistas, sendo ambos, então, considerados fonte secundária da informação contábil. A pesquisa contou com uma amostra de duzentos jornalistas e 155 empresas que possuíam ações listadas no BM&F BOVESPA. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionário contendo perguntas abertas e fechadas, disponibilizado na web e tratados por meio das técnicas de análise de conteúdo e análise fatorial. Em linhas gerais, a análise dos resultados possibilitou verificar que os jornalistas utilizam as mesmas fontes de informação contábil que os demais usuários externos, contudo, não existe uma interação efetiva com as áreas de Relações com Investidores. Adicionalmente, verificou-se que a Contabilidade precisa de uma maior simplificação em suas terminologias, pois foi possível perceber que os seus tradutores podem não cumprir perfeitamente este papel.
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Silva, Marcelo Adriano. "Análise da regulação contábil: um ensaio à luz da teoria tridimensional do direito, da teoria normativa da contabilidade e do gerenciamento da informação contábil, numa perspectiva interdisciplinar." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3949.
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Previous issue date: 2007The choice of accounting standards capable of defining the recognition, measurement and publicizing of financial and economic information to the general public constitutes one of the accounting community¿s greatest challenges. So, the analysis of the Fundamental Principles of Accounting and of the Conceptual Structure of Accounting becomes relevant because of its direct relation to the normative process and because it represents the essence of doctrines and theories relating to the Science of Accounting. Each country¿s set of rules diverges when it comes to creating and evidencing Accounting Statements, and that¿s why the harmonization of the International Accounting Rules is becoming more important among accountants: as an answer to the world qualitative and quantitative demand for information. When managers, answering a great variety of incentives, manipulate or manage the disclosure of accounting information, they show that the management of accounting information begins to represent a purposeful intervention in the process of elaboration of financial and economic statements with the intention of obtaining some private benefit. In this context, Accounting Regulation performs an important function in the technical procedure of professionals in the area and in the development of practices convergent with international standards, which, in their turn, are already in force. The present study, which is exploratory and non-experimental, aims at presenting and analyzing the process of accounting regulation under the perspective of rules and of the choice of accounting practices as an answer by regulated entities on a tridimensional perspective. The establishment of interaction among diverse fields, through interdisciplinarity, aims at bridging the gap between the fields of law and accounting by articulating concepts and cognitive schemes in a process of mutual enrichment. The research concludes that it is possible to apply concepts from Miguel Reale¿s Tridimensional Theory of Law in the study of accounting regulation.
A escolha de padrões contábeis capazes de definir a forma mais adequada para o reconhecimento, mensuração e divulgação das informações econômico-financeiras ao público externo constitui um dos grandes desafios da comunidade contábil. Dessa forma, a análise dos Princípios Fundamentais de Contabilidade e da Estrutura Conceitual da Contabilidade se torna relevante pela direta relação com o processo normativo e por representar à essência das doutrinas e teorias relativas à Ciência da Contabilidade. Os conjuntos normativos de cada país apresentam divergências na forma de elaborar e evidenciar as Demonstrações Contábeis, motivo pelo qual a harmonização das Normas Internacionais de Contabilidade (NIC) vem ganhando importância no meio contábil, em resposta à demanda qualitativa e quantitativa de informações em âmbito mundial. Os gestores ao manipularem ou gerenciarem a divulgação de informações contábeis em atendimento a uma grande variedade de incentivos, demonstram que o gerenciamento da informação contábil passa a representar uma intervenção proposital no processo de elaboração das Demonstrações Econômico-Financeiras, com a intenção de obter algum benefício particular. Nesse contexto, a Regulação Contábil exerce importante papel na conduta técnica de profissionais da área e no desenvolvimento de práticas convergentes com os padrões internacionais que, por sua vez, já se constitui numa realidade. O presente estudo, de caráter exploratório e não-experimental, tem por objetivo apresentar e analisar o processo de regulação contábil sob o enfoque normativo e da escolha de práticas contábeis como resposta dos entes regulados, numa perspectiva tridimensional. O estabelecimento da interação de disciplinas diversas, por meio da interdisciplinaridade, visa romper o isolamento entre as disciplinas contábil e jurídica, articulando conceitos e esquemas cognitivos em um processo de enriquecimento mútuo. A pesquisa conclui que é possível aplicar as concepções advindas da Teoria Tridimensional do Direito, de Miguel Reale, no estudo da regulação contábil.
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Bertini, Michael Marin. "The impact of technology acceptance and openess to innovaion on software implementation." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2714.
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Senior management decisions to foster innovation and adopt new technology solutions have serious implications for the success of their organization change initiatives. This project examined the issue of senior management decision or reasons of their decision to adopt new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as a solution to solve their business problems. This project investigated the degree that perceived ease of use and usefulness of the ERP system influenced decisions made by senior managers to innovate. Roger's diffusion of innovations theory and Davis technology acceptance model theory were used to predict when senior managers were open to innovation, and whether senior managers made decisions to adopt new technological innovations. Out of the 3,000 randomly selected senior managers of small to medium sized organizations in the United States who were invited via emails to participate, 154 completed the online survey. Binary logistic regression analysis on the collected data failed to produce statistically significant support for the claim that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and openness to innovation should impact the senior manager's decision to innovate. The conclusions of this study suggest further research may include a qualitative design to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying reasons, opinions and motivations on the emotive aspects of the decision-making process in the adoption of ERP software innovations. It also offers a positive social change to stakeholders who are potentially affected by technology innovation and adoption by providing empirically validated evidence for causes of senior management technology decisions.
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Castro, Tiago Morais de. "A relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis com a ado????o das normas internacionais: uma an??lise das empresas listadas no Brasil." FECAP - Faculdade Escola de Com??rcio ??lvares Penteado, 2012. http://132.0.0.61:8080/tede/handle/tede/498.
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Previous issue date: 2012-04-20The study of the relevance of accounting information has come to prominence with the development of capital markets and the pursuit of timely information, quality and which are able to influence its users. As relevant accounting information, this essay adopts the concept of quality that the information owns to influence prices in the capital markets. Taking advantage of the timely convergence of brazilian accounting standards to IFRS (International Financial Reports Standards), this study aimed to determine whether the adoption of international accounting standards (IFRS) affected the relevance of accounting information of non-financial companies listed in Brazil and whether there are differences in the relevance of accounting information among the published statement sunder IFRS on a voluntary and compulsory way. The first objective examined whether there were differences in the relevance of the information through an analysis of ordinary least squares (OLS) of the financial statements of 2009 prepared in BR GAAP and IFRS, and through the analysis of panel data from the annual financial statements period 2005 to 2010. The second objective of the analysis used panel data from annual financial statements for the period 2005 to 2010, and considered as those published in voluntary IFRS for prior periods to fiscal the year of 2010. All analyzes used models of Ohlson (1995) and Barth, Cram and Nelson (2001). The models were used as dependent variables price (P) and stock returns (RET), however the results were suitable only to the dependent variable (P). The analysis indicated that there are differences in the relevance of the information of non-financial companies listed in Brazil, on its financial statements prepared in BR GAAP and IFRS. The analysis of the model of Ohlson (1995) in OLS and panel data confirmed this difference and pointed to the financial statements prepared under IFRS as the major importance. The model of Barth, Cram and Nelson (2001) in OLS also revealed differences in the relevance of the information prepared in BR GAAP and IFRS, but pointed to statements in BR GAAP as the major importance. The model of Barth, Cram and Nelson (2001) on panel data found no differences in the relevance of accounting information between BR GAAP and IFRS standards. The second objective, the results indicate that there are no differences in the relevance of accounting information between the statements prepared under IFRS on a mandatory or voluntary way, from non-financial companies listed in Brazil
O estudo da relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis vem ganhando destaque com o desenvolvimento dos mercados de capitais e com a busca de informa????es tempestivas, de qualidade e que sejam capazes de influenciar seus usu??rios. Como informa????o cont??bil relevante, esta disserta????o adota o conceito da qualidade que a informa????o possui de influenciar os pre??os praticados nos mercados de capitais. Aproveitando o momento oportuno da converg??ncia das normas cont??beis brasileiras para as IFRS (International Financial Reports Standards), este trabalho teve por objetivo verificar se a ado????o das normas internacionais de contabilidade (IFRS) afetou a relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis das empresas n??o financeiras listadas no Brasil e se existe diferen??a na relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis entre as demonstra????es publicadas em IFRS de forma volunt??ria e obrigat??ria. O primeiro objetivo verificou se haviam diferen??as na relev??ncia das informa????es atrav??s de uma an??lise em M??nimos Quadrados Ordin??rios (MQO) das demonstra????es cont??beis do ano de 2009 elaboradas em BR GAAP e em IFRS; e atrav??s da an??lise de dados em painel das demonstra????es cont??beis anuais do per??odo de 2005 a 2010. O segundo objetivo utilizou da an??lise de dados em painel das demonstra????es cont??beis anuais do per??odo de 2005 a 2010, e considerou como demonstra????o cont??bil volunt??ria aquelas publicadas em IFRS para per??odos anteriores ao exerc??cio 2010. Todas as an??lises utilizaram dos modelos de Ohlson (1995) e Barth, Cram e Nelson (2001). Os modelos utilizados tinham como vari??veis dependentes o pre??o (P) e o retorno das a????es (RET), por??m, os resultados foram adequados somente com a vari??vel dependente (P). As an??lises apontaram que existem diferen??as na relev??ncia das informa????es das empresas n??o financeiras listadas no Brasil, relativo ?? suas demonstra????es cont??beis elaboradas em BR GAAP e em IFRS. A an??lise do modelo de Ohlson (1995) em MQO e dados em painel comprovaram esta diferen??a e apontaram paras as demonstra????es elaboradas em IFRS como as de maior relev??ncia. O modelo de Barth, Cram e Nelson (2001) em MQO tamb??m revelou diferen??as na relev??ncia das informa????es elaboradas em BR GAAP e IFRS, por??m apontou para as demonstra????es em BR GAAP como de maior relev??ncia. O modelo de Barth, Cram e Nelson (2001) em dados de painel n??o encontrou diferen??as na relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis entre os padr??es BR GAAP e IFRS. Quanto ao segundo objetivo, os resultados apontam que n??o existem diferen??as na relev??ncia das informa????es cont??beis entre as demonstra????es elaboradas em IFRS de forma obrigat??ria ou volunt??ria, das empresas n??o financeiras listadas no Brasil
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Riccio, Edson Luiz. "Uma contribuição ao estudo da contabilidade como sistema de informação." Universidade de São Paulo, 1992. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12131/tde-19012009-121736/.
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O contínuo aparecimento de novos conceitos para o desenvolvimento e controle de uma organização, os avanços da Contabilidade Gerencial além da crescente demanda pela Contabilidade Financeira colocam um desafio para a Contabilidade e todos os envolvidos na sua utilização, operação, pesquisa, desenvolvimento e implementação. Este desafio tem sido mais forte devido ao aumento da complexidade das organizações e o impacto causado pelos Computadores, que reforçaram o conceito de velocidade nos negócios. Adicionalmente, a influencia da cultura japonesa na Administração Organizacional, mais especificamente, \"kanban\", \"Just in Time\", Circulos de Qualidade e flexibilidade, trouxeram mudanças no comportamento organizacional, pressionando a área contábil a atuar dentro dos mesmos padrões. Muitos autores tem questionado sobre estes aspectos como, por exemplo: Bromwich & Hopwood em \" Research and Current Issues in Management Accounting (1986, dizendo: \"Varias abordagens para estrutura organizacional estão criando diferentes necessidades de informação para decisão e controle. Maior enfase está sendo colocada na necessidade de atender tanto as necessidades de informação locais quando as da administração central, e mais, \"a Contabilidade é tambem chamada a desempenhar um papel explicito na mobilização da mudança organizacional. Nao mais vista como um mero repositório passivo de dados do passado, o sistema contábil é parte integrante do desenho de diferentes abordagens na gestão da visibilidade organizacional e das várias direções para sua atuação.\" Estes aspectos foram tambem identificados por Iudicibus em \"Teoria da Contabilidade (1980), ao discutir as categorias de usuários da informação contábil e seus objetivos. Assim, a Contabilidade e os Contadores vem sendo mais e mais requesitados a suprir toda a organização com melhores seriços e informações. O Contador como profissional é solicitado a ser empresário, e sair de sua posição tradicional de \" dono dos dados\" para um novo papel, o de agente de serviços de informação e facilitador na tomada de decisão. Portanto, o Contador e o Sistema de Informação Contábil devem estar totalmente integrados aos objetivos da organização, tanto internos quanto externos. A questão é: como o Sistema de Informação Contábil pode satisfazer as necessidades de informação de uma organização. O objetivo desta tese é o de revisar a abordagem sistêmica da Contabilidade considerando os novos conceitos acima propostos.The continuous release of new concepts in the development and control of an Organization, the advances of Managerial Accounting plus the growing requirements for Financial Accounting present all together a challenge for Accounting and for all individuals somehow involved in its usage, operation, research, development and implementation. This challenge has been stronger due to the increase in the complexity of an organization and the impact caused by the use of Computers, which have introduced the concept of speed in business. Additionally, the influence of the Japanese culture in Business Administration, more specifically, the Kanban, Just in Time, Quality Circles and flexibility, has caused many changes in the organizations behavior, pressuring the Accounting area to act accordingly. Several authors have questioned about these points as for example: Bromwich & Hopwood in Research and Current issues in Management Accounting (1986), saying: Different approaches to organizational structuring are creating different information needs for decision making and control. Greater emphasis is being placed on the need to service both local and central management needs for information, and more, Accounting is also being called upon to play a quite explicit role in the mobilization of organizational change. No longer seen as a mere passive reckoning of the economics of the past, accounting systems are now being implicated in the design of different approaches to the management of organizational visibility and different incentives for organizational action. This aspect had also been identified by Iudícibus in Teoria da Contabilidade (1980) when discussing the Categories of accounting information users and their objectives. Thus, the Accounting and the Accountants are being requested more and more to supply the entire organization with better service and information. The Accountant, as a professional, is asked to be a businessman, changing from his old position of data owner to a new one, as an Information Service Agent, and as a decision making facilitator. Therefore, the Accountant and the Accounting System must be fully integrated with the companys objectives internally and externally. The question is, how the Accounting System can satisfy the information requirements of a Company. The objective of this study is to revise the systems approach for Accounting in a computerized environment considering the new concepts above explained.
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Ragland, Linda Gale. "The Effects of Item Complexity and the Method Used to Present a Complex Item on the Face of a Financial Statement on Nonprofessional Investors` Judgments." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3301.
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My study is motivated by standard setters interest in better understanding (and the gap in research as to) the effects of item complexity and disaggregation across a financial statement on users' decision processes (Bonner 2008; Glaum 2009; FASB 2010b). I examine whether complexity of an item and the method used to present the item on a financial statement influences nonprofessional investors' judgments. Specifically, I examine two issues raised concerning IAS 19 Employee Benefits. The first is to examine whether there are differences in nonprofessional investors' judgments when individual components of a complex item (defined pension cost) are disaggregated across a financial statement (the statement of comprehensive income) versus when individual components of a complex item are aggregated on the face of the same statement. Differences may arise since disaggregation across a statement provides information about how an item relates to different economic events and this information could help nonprofessional investors to better interpret and use the information in judgments. A second objective is to examine whether increasing the complexity of an already complex item affects the usefulness of information. I find that nonprofessional investors weigh higher levels of item complexity in certain judgments. Additionally, I find that when a complex item (defined pension cost) is disaggregated across a financial statement (the statement of comprehensive income) nonprofessional investors are able to acquire more information about the item and are able to more accurately understand the function of the item. This, in turn, helps the nonprofessional investors decide whether the information is useful in certain judgments.
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Bates, Anthony Shawn. "The Trilogy of Science: Filling the Knowledge Management Gap with Knowledge Science and Theory." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3977.
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The international knowledge management field has different ways of investigating, developing, believing, and studying knowledge management. Knowledge management (KM) is distinguished deductively by know-how, and its intangible nature establishes different approaches to KM concepts, practices, and developments. Exploratory research and theoretical principles have formed functional intelligences from 1896 to 2013, leading to a knowledge management knowledge science (KMKS) concept that derived a grounded theory of knowledge activity (KAT). This study addressed the impact of knowledge production problems on KM practice. The purpose of this qualitative meta-analysis study was to fit KM practice within the framework of knowledge science (KS) study. Themed questions and research variables focused on field mechanisms, operative functions, principle theory, and relationships of KMKS. The action research used by American practitioners has not established a formal structure for KS. The meta-data-analysis examined 385 transdisciplinary peer-reviewed articles using social science, service science, and systems science databases, with a selection of interdisciplinary studies that had a practice-research-theory framework. Key attributes utilizing Boolean limiters, words, phrases and publication dates, along with triangulation, language analysis and coding through analytic software identified commonalities of the data under study. Findings reflect that KM has not become a theoretically saturated field. KS as the forensic science of KM creates a paradigm shift, causes social change that averts rapid shifts in management direction and uncertainty, and connects KM philosophy and science of knowledge. These findings have social change implications by informing the work of managers and academics to generate a methodical applied science.
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Campbell, Cory A. "The Changing Landscape of Finance in Higher Education: Bridging the Gap Through Data Analytics." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1523021768570795.
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Harakeh, Mostafa. "Information asymmetry, accounting standards, and accounting conservatism." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/information-asymmetry-accounting-standards-and-accounting-conservatism(1f09d3c2-a25f-40de-8543-e58b80ba0743).html.
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This thesis consists of three self-contained essays, each assessing the interaction between financial accounting and information asymmetry from a different aspect. In the first two essays, I examine how a change in the information environment affects the behavior of market participants. In the third essay, I evaluate the empirical measurement of conditional conservatism in accounting data. Together, these studies contribute to the understanding of the role of financial reporting in mitigating the information gap between stakeholders. In the first essay, I explore the impact of the mandatory adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on dividend payout policy and the value relevance of dividends in two Western European economies. I select the UK as a major common-law country (control group) and France as a code-law country (treatment group) in order to implement a difference-in-differences methodology. My findings suggest that IFRS adoption is a major contributor in increasing dividend payouts among code-law firms, compared to common-law firms, due to a greater reduction in information asymmetry following the IFRS mandate. This makes investors in code-law firms more willing to rely on accounting measures of firm performance, thereby causing a significant and material decrease in dividend value relevance among code-law firms relative to common-law firms. In the second essay, I examine the potential for IFRS to influence the market for SEOs. I utilize a difference-in-differences methodology, where the UK (i.e. common-law firms) is the control group and France (i.e. code-law firms) is the treatment group. I argue that IFRS adoption serves to mitigate information asymmetry and improve accounting quality. Accordingly, I find that, following IFRS adoption, earnings management activities decrease among code-law firms prior to issuing SEOs. As a result of the lower levels of earnings management and information asymmetry, I predict and find that the market reaction to issuing SEOs improves significantly for code-law firms following IFRS. Given that equity financing becomes less costly, I find that the propensity to issue new SEOs increases among code-law firms after IFRS adoption. In the third and final essay, I examine the empirical measurement of conditional conservatism (CC) in accounting data. Prior studies have raised serious concerns about the bias in the asymmetric timeliness (AT) measure of CC. This measure, along with the C_Score measure, underpins a large body of empirical research on CC. Thus I endeavor to assess the extent to which prior literature may need to be revised because of its reliance on these measures. In exploring this issue, I replicate prior studies that rely on the AT or the C_Score measure, and then compare the replicated results with those generated by applying the variance ratio (VR) measure of CC, proposed by Dutta & Patatoukas (2017). I show that the AT and the VR measures are associated unconditionally. Furthermore, my findings suggest that the observed variation in the C_Score measure is driven by variation in the bias implicit in the AT measure rather than variation in CC. I also provide evidence showing that the AT measure yields similar conclusions to the VR measure in research designs that model the change in CC following an exogenous change in accounting policy; however, I find that using the AT measure to document cross-sectional differences in CC is highly likely to have given rise to invalid conclusions in a large number of studies.
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Chaudhry, Muhammad Imran. "Essays on Agricultural and Financial Markets in Pakistan." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1470400809.
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Messias, Diego. "A informação contábil no setor público: uma abordagem sob a ótica das teorias da comunicação e da semiótica." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2017. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/3105.
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Accounting can be understood as a process of communication between the accounting professional and the end user of the information. The effectiveness of this communication process has been the subject of studies in the accounting area and several issues remain open. Guided by the Bedford and Baladouni Theory of Communication (1962) and Morris Semiotics (1976), this study adds to this discussion an empirical perspective, which enables the identification and detailed analysis of noises in accounting communication, specifically in the organizational context of Public sector. This study sought to understand the process of accounting communication at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (Unila), in order to capture the qualities of the accounting information produced there, and the noises that affect it. For this, a two-step investigation was conducted, guided by Creswell's sequential explanatory project (2007). The first stage consisted of a survey of with the 63 federal universities in Brazil, where it aimed to capture the perception of accountants and managers about the qualities present in the accounting information produced for management purposes. From the quantitative approach, it was identified that, in the perception of the respondents of both groups, the accounting information is permeated with positive attributes, such as the use of simplified language, adequacy to the users' needs, reliability and relevance to the making process of decision-making. On the other hand, the managers indicated that they did not have the necessary knowledge necessary to the user of the accounting information, a factor that impairs the accounting comprehension, and, also, does not frequently use frequently the management reports. Based on the results of the national survey and the precepts of the Theories of Communication and Semiotics, the qualitative case study was carried out at Unila, where the accounting communication process of the institution was mapped. From this mapping, the main results that stand out are: the observation of the economic events occurs indirectly by the accountants; The data received by the accounting sector are submitted to a validation process; The flows of procedures are not institutionally formalized institutionally, but adopted in a conventional way; The production of managerial reports is oriented to the needs and particularities of the demanding internal users who make the demands; The accounting information contained in the reports are perceived by the managers as understandable and reliable; The usefulness or relevance of the accounting information is partially compromised, in view of considering problems in the management of the institution. The deficiency identified in the relevance of the reports constitutes a possible motivation for the low demand for information to the accounting sector, since the managers see uncertainties in their use. The empirical approach of Brazilian federal universities, and of Unila in particular, strengthens the discussion about the communication between accountants and users and the qualitative characteristics of the accounting information, by instigating the accomplishment of similar investigations, aimed at optimizing the effectiveness of Accounting.
A Contabilidade pode ser compreendida como um processo de comunicação entre o profissional contábil e o usuário final da informação. A efetividade desse processo de comunicação tem sido objeto de estudos na área contábil e diversas questões ainda permanecem abertas. Orientado pela Teoria da Comunicação de Bedford e Baladouni (1962) e da Semiótica de Morris (1976), este estudo acrescenta a essa discussão uma perspectiva empírica, que possibilita a identificação e análise pormenorizada de ruídos existentes na comunicação contábil, especificamente no âmbito organizacional do setor público. Buscou-se com o estudo compreender o processo de comunicação contábil na Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Unila), de forma a captar as qualidades da informação contábil ali produzida, e os ruídos que a afetam. Para tal, procedeu-se uma investigação de duas etapas, orientada pelo projeto explanatório sequencial de Creswell (2007). A primeira etapa se constituiu como um levantamento (survey) junto às 63 universidades federais brasileiras, em que objetivou-se captar a percepção de contadores e gestores acerca das qualidades presentes nas informações contábeis produzidas para fins gerenciais. Da etapa de abordagem quantitativa, identificou-se que, na percepção dos respondentes de ambos os grupos, as informações contábeis são permeadas de atributos positivos, como uso de linguagem simplificada, adequação às necessidades dos usuários, fidedignidade e relevância para o processo de tomada de decisão. Por outro lado, os gestores indicaram não ter os conhecimentos necessários ao usuário da informação contábil, fator que prejudica a compreensão contábil, e, também, não se utilizar com frequência dos relatórios gerenciais. Embasado nos resultados do levantamento nacional e nos preceitos das Teorias da Comunicação e da Semiótica, procedeu-se o estudo de caso qualitativo na Unila, em que foi mapeado o processo de comunicação contábil da instituição. Do mapeamento se destacam os principais resultados: a observação dos eventos econômicos se dá de maneira indireta pelos contadores; os dados recebidos pelo setor contábil são submetidos a processo de validação; os fluxos de procedimentos não são formalizados institucionalmente, mas adotados de forma convencionada; a produção dos relatórios gerenciais é orientada às necessidades e particularidades dos usuários internos demandantes; as informações contábeis contidas nos relatórios são percebidas pelos gestores como compreensíveis e confiáveis; a utilidade ou relevância das informações contábeis é parcialmente comprometida, tendo em vista problemas na gestão da instituição. A deficiência identificada na relevância dos relatórios se constitui como possível motivação da baixa demanda de informações ao setor contábil, uma vez que os gestores visualizam incertezas em sua utilização. A abordagem empírica das universidades federais brasileiras, e da Unila em específico, fortalecem a discussão acerca da comunicação entre contadores e usuários e das características qualitativas das informações contábeis, ao instigar a realização de investigações semelhantes, direcionadas à otimização da efetividade da Contabilidade.
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Willett, Roger. "Accounting measurement theory." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=165709.
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Kindberg, Mikaela, and Nadine Nimer. "Earnings Management genom Oförklarliga Periodiseringar : En studie om resultatmanipulation i svenska företag vid nyemission." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-14547.
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I tidigare studier har det framkommit att amerikanska företag manipulerar sina finansiella räkenskaper inför en nyemission med hjälp av Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar. Detta görs i syfte att reflektera en bättre bild av företagets finansiella ställning gentemot hur det i verkligheten ser ut. Företeelsen tillämpas med avsikt att erhålla ett större finansiellt riskkapital då företaget utfärdar nyemission. Denna studie undersöker om svenska företag agerar likt amerikanska företag vid en nyemission och därför är syftet i studien att undersöka om svenska företag tillämpar Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar vid perioden då de utfärdar nyemission. Svenska företag har varit av intresse i följande studie då svenska företag verkar under ett annorlunda redovisnings- och skattesystem än amerikanska företag gör, varpå vi vill testa om teorin Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar är tillämpbar på även svenska företag, trots de skillnader som föreligger mellan ländernas lagsystem. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av en kvantitativ metod som vi presenterat med hjälp av en deskriptiv statistisk analys. De resultat som framkommit i studien är att även svenska, såväl som amerikanska, företag tillämpar Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar vid de kvartal då ska utfärda nyemission, trots de olikheter i redovisnings- och skattesystem som råder länderna emellan. Förutom detta visar studien på att svenska företag även tillämpar en extrem form av Earnings Management samt att olika branscher tillämpar Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar i olika grad då de ska utfärda nyemission. De resultat som framkommer i följande studie visar att det är av stor betydelse att investerare har en medvetenhet om att Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar förekommer när svenska företag ska utfärda nyemission. Detta är av vikt då tidigare studier har påvisat att många investerare som förvärvat aktier i företagen som tillämpat Earnings Management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar har känt en besvikelse samt upplevt att de blivit missledda av företagens publicerade finansiella rapporter efter nyemissionen. Besvikelsen grundar sig i att det rapporterade resultatet vanligtvis kraftigt sjunker kvartalen efter nyemission då företagen tillämpat Earnings management genom oförklarliga periodiseringar.In previous studies, it has been found that US companies manipulate their financial statements before issuing Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEO) using Accrual-based Earnings Management. This is done by the company in order to reflect a better financial position compared to their true underlying financial performance. Accrual-based Earnings Management is applied with the intention of obtaining larger financial capital when issuing SEOs. This study examines whether Swedish companies, consistent with US companies, apply the phenomenon in a similar way while issuing SEOs and the purpose of our study is therefore to investigate whether Swedish companies apply Accrual-based Earnings Management in the period they issue SEOs. Swedish companies have been of interest in the following study, as Swedish companies operate under a different accounting and tax law compared to that of American companies. As a result, we want to test the theory of Accrual-based Earnings Management to see if it is applicable to Swedish companies, despite the differences in tax law that exists between the countries. The study has been conducted using a quantitative methodology which has been presented through a descriptive statistical analysis. Our results imply that Swedish- as well as American companies, apply Accrual-based Earnings Management in the period they issue SEOs. This is found despite differences in accounting and tax law between the two countries. In addition to this, the study also shows that Swedish companies apply an extreme form of Accrual-based Earnings Management, and that it exist industrial differences in the level of Accrual-based Earnings Management that is applied when issuing SEOs. The results found in the following study show that it is of the utmost importance that investors have an awareness regarding Accrual-based Earnings Management and that it occurs when Swedish companies issue a SEO. This is important as previous studies have shown that many investors who acquired shares in the companies who applied Accrual-based Earnings Management when issuing SEOs, have felt disappointed and have found that they have been misled by the companies published financial reports following the SEO. The disappointment is based on the fact that as companies apply Accrual-based Earnings Management, the companies reported earnings usually fall in the period after issuing a SEO.
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Pires, Rodolpho Gonçalves. "A informação contábil e a teoria de agência: um estudo da assimetria informacional em companhias abertas, listadas no novo mercado da Bovespa." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1710.
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Previous issue date: 2008-10-06This study analyzes the agent s perception of Accounting as a mechanism for reducing information asymmetry between the Principal and itself. The agents considered in this study were the administrators of all thirty-six domestic public companies listed on the special market segment with additional requirements related to corporate governance of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange in Brazil, called Novo Mercado da BOVESPA , as of October 2006. In view of the widespread and growing concerns around corporate governance and the relevance of accounting information, this study s empirical research is based on two assumptions that (i) there are information asymmetry-related problems between agent and principal, and (ii) accounting information, considering its major objective, acts as an information asymmetry reduction mechanism between principal and agent. The primary objective of this study was to analyze the relation between Agency Theory and Accounting, on matters related to information asymmetry between agent and principal, as part of the agency conflicts. The secondary objectives were to (i) question this relation on domestic companies listed on the special market segment with additional corporate governance requirements of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange in Brazil, (ii) analyze the role of accounting information in the agency relations of those companies, (iii) verify the evaluation made by the agents in relation to the importance of Accounting to the information asymmetry reduction, (iv) relate Accounting and Agency Theory in domestic public companies listed in this market segment, and (v) contribute to the development of the positive approach in accounting research in Brazil. A questionnaire was applied as means of data collection for the realization of the empirical research. The instrument was sent to each one of the thirty-six responsible for the investors relations department of these companies. It represents the total number of companies listed in this special market segment up to October 2006. At the end of the researching phase, according to the working chronogram, a 53% responses rate was achieved. Analysis of the compiled data suggests that there is an alignment with the aforementioned assumptions. The majority of respondents perceive the existence of information asymmetry problems between principal and agent. Similarly, the majority of participants evaluated Accounting as a mechanism that enables the reduction of information asymmetry problems between agent and principal
Este trabalho analisa como é avaliada a Contabilidade, como mecanismo de redução de assimetria de informações entre principal e agente, pelos administradores das empresas nacionais de capital aberto, listadas no segmento diferenciado em relação a práticas adicionais de governança corporativa, denominado Novo Mercado da BOVESPA. Considerando um ambiente de ampla e crescente preocupação com a governança das firmas, e a relevância da informação contábil nesse ambiente, este estudo parte de algumas premissas que serviram de base para a realização da pesquisa empírica. Tais suposições são: a) existem problemas de assimetria de informação entre principal e agente; b) a Contabilidade, considerando seu objeto e objetivo conforme definido em sua Teoria, funciona como redutora da assimetria informacional entre acionistas e gestores. Este estudo objetiva, principalmente, a análise das relações entre a Contabilidade e a teoria de agência, em suas questões relativas à assimetria informacional entre principal e agente, como parte dos conflitos de agência em companhias abertas brasileiras, listadas no Novo Mercado da BOVESPA. Em específico, o trabalho busca averiguar as relações entre a Contabilidade e a assimetria de informações, analisar o papel da Contabilidade nas relações de agência, verificar a avaliação dos administradores com relação à importância da Contabilidade para a redução da assimetria informacional entre principal e agente, relacionar a Contabilidade com a teoria de agência no ambiente brasileiro e contribuir com os avanços da abordagem positiva na pesquisa em Contabilidade no Brasil. Para a realização da pesquisa empírica, foi utilizado o questionário como meio para a coleta de dados. O instrumento foi enviado para cada um dos responsáveis pelos departamentos de Relações com Investidores de cada uma das empresas listadas no novo mercado da Bovespa, somando um total de trinta e seis, representando a totalidade das companhias elencadas nesse segmento de mercado até outubro de 2006. Ao término da fase de pesquisa de campo, de acordo com o cronograma de trabalho, foram obtidas 53% de respostas. A análise da compilação das respostas obtidas permite observar um alinhamento com as suposições de trabalho, pois a maioria dos respondentes percebe que existem problemas de assimetria de informação entre principal e agente. Similarmente, a maioria dos participantes da pesquisa empírica avalia a Contabilidade como um mecanismo que possibilita a redução dos problemas relacionados à assimetria informacional entre principal e agente
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Al-Adeem, Khalid Rasheed. "Accounting Theory: A Neglected Topic in Academic Accounting Research." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1256045265.
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Thesis(Ph.D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2010Title from PDF (viewed on 2009-11-23) Department of Accounting Includes abstract Includes bibliographical references and appendices Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center
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Begkos, Christos. "Accounting and strategizing : medical managers' use of accounting information." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/accounting-and-strategizing-medical-managers-use-of-accounting-information(dcf7df7c-b4d4-4dd5-9dfb-4a732b6c4006).html.
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Accounting information can be instrumental to agents who strategize. Pluralistic settings are conducive to strategizing. Although the dynamics between accounting systems and strategic decision-making are well studied in the private sector, little is known about the relationship between accounting and strategizing in the pluralistic setting of healthcare. Hence, this study investigates medical managers' strategizing practices with accounting information (e.g. building cases for investment and taking on new business). Medical managers require, at least, some expertise with accounting to employ it effectively in strategizing. In consequence, the study also explores variation in medical managers' technical knowledge of costs and level of engagement with accounting information. Thus, this research answers the question of how medical managers strategize with accounting information. The study draws upon accounting and strategizing literature, which interrogates actors' strategizing practices (e.g. Paroutis & Pettigrew, 2007), the artefacts and tools that they mobilise while strategizing (e.g. Jarzabkowski et al., 2013) and how accounting and strategizing helps actors contextualize strategic objectives and accounting concepts (e.g. Jørgensen & Messner, 2010). In doing so, accounting and strategizing studies shift away from viewing strategy as a black box (Chua, 2007; Johnson et al., 2003). This study focuses on Clinical and Medical Directors; clinicians who have both medical and managerial responsibilities. This hybrid profession is increasingly important for health care organizations, however, in the past, clinicians' competence and engagement with accounting information has not been widespread (Llewellyn, 2001; Kurunmäki, 2004).The research uses a mixed methods approach to gather and analyse empirical data. Interviews were held with Clinical and Medical Directors at four selected Trusts that demonstrated a high level of engagement between finance professionals and clinicians at different organizational levels and across all clinical specialties (Department of Health, 2013). Documentary analysis examined the use of accounting information in business cases for investment, annual strategy plans and specialty reports. A survey explored the financial training, engagement and use of accounting information for the whole population of Clinical and Medical Directors of all NHS Trusts in England. The study finds that medical managers strategize via controlling, contesting and competing (C-C-C) practices. Specifically, they strategize with accounting information to control activity and expenditure, contest imposed costs, and compete, against others, for resources. In doing so, they embed accounting in business cases, bubble charts and performance reports, using these as artefacts and tools, to display the practical and general understandings of accounting which inform their strategizing practices. Thus, for pluralistic settings like healthcare, the study introduces a theoretical 'C-C-C' typology to the notion of strategizing and makes an empirical contribution to how actors strategize with accounting information.
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Mousa, Rania. "E-government adoption process : XBRL adoption in HM revenue and customs and companies house." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1752/.
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The last two decades have seen an evolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities in the public sector which facilitates the adoption of several IT innovations. Electronic government is one of these strategic innovations that many government agencies have considered adopting to deliver government information and services and support the modernisation of government’s administrative tasks. This research investigates an e-government adoption process as represented by the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) adoption process. XBRL constitutes one of the key components of the electronic regulatory reporting process in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Companies House (CH). A comprehensive conceptual framework is developed to examine XBRL adoption process and the influential technological, organisational, environmental factors and e-government challenges that affect this process. The contribution of this comprehensive framework is that it develops various relationships among these factors, challenges and stages of the adoption process which have not been identified in the IT adoption or e-government literature. The framework for e-government adoption in the public sector is useful in multiple ways. The major benefit is to contribute to understanding the adoption process, identify the technological infrastructure, and emphasise the importance of the organisational readiness and impact of the environment on the adoption process. The framework can also help government decision makers to visualise a suitable strategic action plan for the future of electronic government by identifying the key issues and potential challenges associated with adopting e-government projects.
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Koornhof, Carolina. "Accounting information on flexibility." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 1998. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10232001-152437.
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Alfahad, Khaled Fouzan. "Accounting in higher education : a grounded theory of accounting absence." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/369008/.
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To date, very few studies have investigated accounting absence in organisations, and only two of these have investigated the absence of accounting in higher education (HE). This has posed difficulties to the author of this thesis to identify a framework of accounting absence against which to conduct the research. To mitigate this, the Grounded Theory (GT) approach was applied and developed in this research to facilitate an in-depth explanation of the issue of accounting absence. Subsequently, the researcher extensively and intensively conducted semi-structured interviews in addition to reviewing documents that would shed light on the status of accounting in the case study. Empirically, this study has – in depth - explored, examined and understood accounting absence in a leading and public university in Saudi Arabia which should contribute to the few related studies in HE and the public sector in general and in developing countries in particular. The origin, status and daily practices of its accounting system were described. For example, this research found that the University’s antiquated accounting system had rarely been subject to any updates or developments since the rules were first established in 1956, although they are criticised for being primitive, bureaucratic and centralised. After comparing the open and axial codes to reach a saturation stage of developing a theory, a substantive theory of accounting absence was introduced to explain accounting absence, and describes conditions that create, resist and/or sustain the absence of accounting by describing the strategies that are applied by those conditions. The consequences of accounting absence and these strategies are described, and finally, this research defined accounting absence, drawing a distinction between technical absence and functional absence. The substantive theory is then compared with the extant literature where this research found a new type of decoupling taking place, and new practices of coercive pressure. After the comparisons, a Formal Grounded Theory was developed to achieve an abstract theory of accounting absence that should be more applicable to studies on accounting absence in general and accounting absence in the field of HE in particular.
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Bonin, Holger. "Generational accounting : theory and application /." Berlin : Springer, 2001. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00060726.pdf.
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Calderon, Thomas G. "Banker needs for accounting information." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76508.
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This research examines the extent to which user needs are affected by differences in the size and ownership characteristics of reporting entities. Bank loan officers constitute the target group of financial statement users and the study focuses on the perceived need for sixteen financial statement items. Among these are twelve items for which differentiation in financial reporting has been proposed (key items), and four items that bankers generally require when evaluating a loan application (control items) . The research model is based on the hypothesis that perceptions of accounting information are affected by the decision context, complexity of the organization in which the decision is being made, and the behavior response repertoire of the user.
A quasi-experimental design with two treatments is utilized. The treatments are (1) a commercial loan decision involving a small privately held corporation, and (2) a commercial loan decision involving a large public corporation. A questionnaire was mailed to gather the data. Three hundred and fifteen usable responses were received, for a response rate of 21%.
The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and canonical correlation analysis. Differences in the size and ownership characteristics of commercial loan applicants were found to have a statistically significant impact on the perceived needs of bankers for financial statement information. This relationship is most observable among disclosures that are perceived to be of lesser importance in the loan evaluation process. The perceived needs for items that are considered to be of greater importance (for example, the control items) are relatively insensitive to variations in the size and ownership characteristics of commercial loan applicants. Overall, commercial loan officers tend to perceive a relatively high need for general financial statement items, but tend to downplay the importance of the more specific and detailed items.
The results also indicate that the organizational complexity of a bank, and the degree to which its commercial loan officers are committed to the work ethic of the banking profession, are significantly related to the perceived need for financial statement disclosures.Ph. D.
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Berggren, Rebecca, and Ulrika Ramsin. "Granskning av hållbarhetsredovisning : En studie om utmaningar och komfort." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18782.
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Intresset för hållbarhetsfrågor har sedan 1990-talet ökat kraftigt i samhället och genom detta har även hållbarhetsredovisning blivit av allt större betydelse. Detta har påverkat företag, vilka alltmer hamnat under press att ta ansvar för verksamhetens sociala och miljömässiga konsekvenser. Genom hållbarhetsredovisning har företag möjlighet att kommunicera sitt hållbarhetsarbete till sina intressenter. För att säkerställa att hållbarhetsinformationen är tillförlitlig behöver denna granskas. Hållbarhetsredovisning är dock ett område under utveckling och vid bestyrkande av informationen finns många utmaningar, vilka granskaren måste hantera för att skapa komfort genom granskningsprocessen. I studien används begreppet granskare som ett samlingsbegrepp för revisorer, miljörevisorer hållbarhetskonsulter och hållbarhetsspecialister som utför granskning av hållbarhetsredovisning. Syftet är att utforska vilka utmaningar en granskare möter vid granskning av hållbarhetsredovisning samt vad det är som gör denne komfortabel i granskningsarbetet. Studien utgår från komfortteorin och en litteraturöversikt som identifierade tre huvudsakliga utmaningar i form av kvalitativ information, kunskap och kompetens samt tolkningsproblematik. Dessa ställs sedan mot studiens empiri som har samlats in genom nio semistrukturerade intervjuer. Respondenterna är revisorer, miljörevisorer, hållbarhetskonsulter och hållbarhetsspecialister med erfarenhet av att granska hållbarhetsredovisning. Studiens slutsatser är att de huvudsakliga utmaningarna granskaren möter vid granskning av hållbarhetsredovisning är kvalitativ information och tolkningsproblematik. Angående utmaningen om kunskap och kompetens fanns det åsiktsskillnader om utmaningens storlek och resultatet indikerar att den drivande faktorn för dessa skillnader är huruvida respondenten i fråga har en utbildningsbakgrund inom hållbarhet eller ekonomi. Vidare är studiens slutsats att komfort uppnås genom att granskaren samlar in bevis för att styrka hållbarhetsinformationen och på detta vis blir trygg i granskningen, vilken således är färdig när granskaren är komfortabel.Interest in sustainability issues has increased vastly in society since the 1990s, and through this, sustainability reporting has also become increasingly important. This has affected companies, which are under increased pressure to take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their business. Through sustainability accounting, companies have the opportunity to communicate their sustainability work to their stakeholders. To ensure that the sustainability information is reliable, assurance is needed. However, sustainability accounting is an area under development where there are several challenges in assurance engagements, which reviewer must handle in order to create comfort through the assurance processes. In this study the word reviewer is used as a collective name for auditors, sustainability auditors, sustainability consultants and sustainability specialists who performs sustainability accounting assurance. The purpose of this study is to explore what challenges the reviewers face in sustainability accounting assurance, as well as how the reviewer produces comfort in the assurance process. The study is based on the comfort theory and a literature review that identifies three main challenges in the form of qualitative information, knowledge and competence as well as interpretation issues. These are compared to the empirical data of the study, collected through nine semi-structured interviews. The respondents are auditors, environmental auditors, sustainability consultants and sustainability specialists with experience in sustainability accounting assurance. The conclusions of the study are that the main challenges the reviewer faces in sustainability accounting assurance are qualitative information and interpretation issues. Regarding the challenge of knowledge and competence, there were differences of opinion about the extent of this challenge and it is indicated by the results that the driving factor for these differences of opinions is whether the respondents in question have an educational background in sustainability or economics. Furthermore the conclusions of the study shows that comfort is achieved through obtaining audit evidence which confirms the sustainability information and makes the reviewer secure. Thus the assurance is complete when the reviewer is comfortable.
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Frantz, Pascal. "Discretionary accounting choices : an information perspective." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319344.
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Rom, Anders. "Management accounting and integrated information systems : how to exploit the potential for management accounting of information technology /." Copenhagen : Business School, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/563772867.pdf.
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Shah, Esta Denton. "Advances to Mental Accounting Theory| Evidence for Mental Stealing and Retroactive Malleable Mental Accounting." Thesis, Northwestern University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705358.
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Mental accounting, defined as the process whereby consumers code, categorize, and evaluate economic outcomes in the form of mental “budgets” (Thaler 1980; 1985), has been encouraged as a strategy to aid individuals in the regulation of finances and other resources. However, far less research has examined the pitfalls of mental accounting. Essay 1 investigates how mental accounting can lead to suboptimal decisions for others. We propose a novel hypothesis to understand an effect we term “mental stealing,” whereby mental accounts focus individuals on budgets so much that they forgo gifts that a gift-recipient would like. Essay 2 investigates how mental accounting for windfalls (i.e., unexpected gains in wealth) can lead to suboptimal spending on the self. We propose that expense categorizations are retroactively malleable, and can lead to overspending of windfalls. In total, the two essays of this dissertation enhance our study of consumer behavior by documenting new effects of mental accounts. And, in the process of documenting these new effects, this dissertation informs the mental accounting literature by identifying when mental accounting leads to suboptimal outcomes for both others and the self.
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Sanders, D. Elaine. "The effect of information cost, source reliability, and individuating information on the perceived usefulness of summary information : a study in management accounting /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1995.
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Kierzek, Sonja. "Essays on accounting theory and revenue recognition /." Frankfurt a.M, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000253338.
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Klausner, Becky. "Macro-prudential accounting a theory regarding magis /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2009. http://165.236.235.140/lib/BKlausner2009.pdf.
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Gullberg, Cecilia. "Roles of Accounting Information in Managerial Work." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-223653.
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Managerial work has been described as fragmented, action-oriented, and highly interpersonal, leaving limited room for formal planning and analysis. Even so, managers are expected to engage with accounting information for planning and analysing their area of responsibility. Accounting information has, however, been found to be tardy, aggregated, and incomplete, leading managers to rely on a wide set of additional informational resources. Still, managers’ doings and concerns tend to remain largely in the background in much management accounting research, which leaves us with limited knowledge of how accounting information comes into play in managers’ work. Moreover, technologies aimed at accommodating managers’ information needs are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and allow for timelier and more precise accounting information. This gradual transformation of technologies has led to questions concerning how management accounting is practised, and how it is related to accounting information systems. The aim of this dissertation is to identify roles of accounting information in managerial work in order to better understand the link between managerial work and management accounting systems. The dissertation consists of two volumes, each with three papers and a summary appraisal. The empirical material consists of interviews with a cross-sectional sample of mainly first-line managers, and a study of a construction firm including interviews with higher- and lower-level managers, observations of workshops where higher-level managers and staff discuss the management accounting systems, and internal documents. Overall, this dissertation suggests four roles of accounting information, based on its capacity to serve as representation, translation, key and perspective. Essentially, these roles reflect the ability of accounting information to both aggregate and disaggregate “reality”. The potential of each of these roles is shaped by managerial, organisational and technological issues, and is not always easily realised. The potential of these roles is particularly challenged in an environment with many local contexts. By accentuating what makes accounting information more and less valuable vis-à-vis other informational resources, this dissertation adds clarity to the emerging body of literature on managers’ situated use of accounting information, and to the debate on information technologies and management accounting.
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Xiao, Lijuan. "Essays on accounting information quality in China." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11532/.
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This research contributes to provide a better understanding of the nature of accounting information reliability by measuring the relation between the informativeness of earnings and corporate governance based on the Chinese context with its unique political, social, cultural and economic environment and large sample size. In particular, mainland China has a distinct two-tier board structure comprising a supervisor board including employee representatives and board of directors of whom at least one third are independent directors. The objective of this thesis is to investigate accounting information reliability and corporate governance by addressing three predominant empirical research questions in three studies. The first study examines the impact of board composition and independence on earnings management in mainland China through investigating whether independent directors and supervisors are effective at restraining earnings management. To fully capture the earnings attributes, the second study investigates the quality of reported earnings in China from the perspective of both accounting-based (including accrual quality, persistence, predictability and smoothness) and market-based earnings attributes (including value relevance, timeliness, and conservatism and earnings response coefficient). A two-way test has been conducted to compare the difference in earnings quality between State-Owned and Non-State-Owned enterprises. According to financial distress theory, the incentives for Non-SOEs to manipulate earnings are stronger than in SOEs, since SOEs have the advantage to receive financial subsidies from government while Non-SOEs face more financing constraints. The agency theory, however, argues that state ownership in SOEs creates incentives and regulatory backing for self-serving purposes, thus motivating SOEs to manipulate accounting numbers. The political cost hypothesis complements the agency theory and illustrates that SOEs’ managers would manipulate accounting numbers in response to government intervention (report conservatively to disguise the profits or report aggressively to meet specific thresholds). In addition, it tests whether analysts' forecasts are more accurate than forecasts based on time-series predicted statistics with random walk. Finally, the third empirical study detects whether managers intend to manipulate earnings via discretionary accruals in order to just meet or beat consensus analyst forecasts on the basis of earnings surprise (analyst forecast error). The key findings of the first study in this thesis suggest that the distinct Chinese two-tier board structure comprising independent directors and supervisory directors fails to mitigate earnings management. The second study documents that Chinese SOEs overall exhibit a lower earnings quality than Non-SOEs, supporting the agency theory. Government ownership might create incentives and regulatory backing for self-serving purposes that negatively influence the listed firms’ financial reporting. Moreover, SOEs manipulate downwards the earnings much more than Non-SOEs, manifesting the government generally expropriate the benefits of SOEs, according to the political cost hypothesis. One interesting finding in second study is that predicted earnings based on the time-series statistical model with drift are more accurate than the consensus analyst forecast. This result conflicts with findings from developed country studies, indicating the malfunction of financial analysts in mainland China. In the third empirical study, the findings suggest an optimistic bias in analysts' forecasts exists in Chinese listed companies but fail to provide any evidence supporting that discretionary accrual measures are positively associated with just meeting or beating the analysts’ forecast benchmark. It challenges the ‘benchmark beating’ incentive in most prior literature based on western developed countries, such as the US and the UK.
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Karamatova, Liliya. "Management Accounting and ERP Systems : Factors behind the Choice of Information Systems when Exercising Management Accounting." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-63851.
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Accounting is an old discipline inherent to any business. Accounting is divided into Financial Accounting (FA) and Management Accounting (MA). Financial Accounting focuses on the pure processing of the economic data. Management Accounting focuses on the decision-making aspects of the accounting. Accounting industry has been tremendously transformed in the past two decades due to the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. These systems integrate and unify an organisation’s business functions and processes into one complex computer system. Previous research suggests that the ERP systems’ main functionality primarily addresses the issues of Financial Accounting and much less the issues of Management Accounting. The purpose of this study is to explore the underlying factors behind the application of the Management Accounting Techniques through the ERP systems and to suggest a further development in the field. Five large Swedish companies were examined through the comparative case studies with semi-structured interviews. This study discovered that MATs were mostly implemented through spreadsheets, BI systems and custom-built software, i.e. outside of the ERP systems. The main reasons were inflexibility and standard design of the ERP systems, that did not fully suit the companies. Additionally, the customization of the ERP systems would be too costly when other tools, such as BI systems or spreadsheets, provided better functionality to a better price. The conclusion of this study is that it is impossible to build a universal ERP system that would suit all kind of companies, however, ERP systems can serve as a common base and a transaction engine for the MA. ERP systems can provide a data structure for the analysis parameters crucial to MA, such as profit centre, cost centre, unit, and other dimensionality aspects. Spreadsheets and BI systems win the MA battle by providing the flexibility, user-friendliness and the acceptable price, required by the users. Therefore, ERP systems must provide good integration possibilities with other software. One can further speculate if ERP system providers choose not to deliver flexible and visually appealing products, since they benefit from the income that the customer education and the customization of an ERP system implies.
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Brandl, Reinhard. "Cost accounting for shared IT infrastructures." Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/560449232.pdf.
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Coulombe, Daniel. "Voluntary income increasing accounting changes : theory and further empirical investigation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26983.
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This thesis presents a three step analysis of voluntary income increasing accounting changes. We first propose a theory as to why managers would elect to modify their reporting strategy. This theory builds on research on the economic factors motivating accounting choices, since it is assumed that accounting choices are a function of political costs, manager's compensation plans and debt constraints. Specifically, we claim that adversity motivates the manager to effect an income increasing accounting change.
Secondly, the thesis proposes a theoretical analysis of the potential market responses to a change announcement. The stock price effect of a change announcement is examined as a function of investors' rational anticipations of the manager's reporting actions and as a function of the level of information about adversity that investors may have prior to a change announcement.
An empirical analysis is presented in the third step of this thesis. Our empirical findings are that:
1- Change announcements, on average, have no significant impact on the market.
2- Relative to the Compustat population as a whole, firms that voluntarily adopt income increasing accounting changes exhibit symptoms of financial distress, suggesting that such change announcements are associated with financial adversity.
3- Firms which voluntarily adopt income increasing accounting changes tend to exhibit symptoms of financial distress one or more years prior to the change year, suggesting that change announcements tend not to be a timely source of information conveying distress to the market.
4- There is a significant negative association between investors' proxies for prior information about adversity and the market impact of the change, especially for the subset of firms with above average leverage, suggesting that the information content of the accounting change signal is inversely related to investors prior information about adversity.
The empirical results thus support the view that investors, at the time a change occurs, have information about the prevailing state of the world, and that they have rational anticipations with respect to the manager's reporting behavior. In this respect, the accounting change is, on average, an inconsequential signal that adds little to what investors already knew before the change announcement.Business, Sauder School of
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