Board composition, regulatory regime and voluntary disclosure

ECM Cheng, SM Courtenay - The international journal of accounting, 2006 - Elsevier
This study, which examines the association between board monitoring and the level of
voluntary disclosure, finds new evidence that firms with a higher proportion of independent …

The association between board composition and different types of voluntary disclosure

S Lim, Z Matolcsy, D Chow - European Accounting Review, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the association between board composition and voluntary disclosure in
annual reports. In particular, it addresses the incentives within the agency theory framework …

Do better-governed Australian firms make more informative disclosures?

W Beekes, P Brown - Financial Accounting and Equity Markets, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
We investigate whether and if so, how, corporate governance 'quality'1 is related to the
information flows from a company and how the share market and its agents respond …

Determinants of voluntary corporate governance disclosure: Evidence from Islamic banks in the Southeast Asian and the Gulf Cooperation Council regions

WAW Abdullah, M Percy, J Stewart - Journal of Contemporary Accounting & …, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate the determinants of voluntary corporate governance disclosure practices of
67 Islamic banks in the Southeast Asian and Gulf Cooperation Council regions. We expect …

Price discovery and dissemination of private information by loan syndicate participants

RM Bushman, AJ Smith… - Journal of Accounting …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We delineate key channels through which flows of confidential information to loan syndicate
participants impact the dynamics of information arrival in prices. We isolate the timing of …

Twitter-based dissemination of corporate disclosure and the intervening effects of firms' visibility: Evidence from Australian-listed companies

M Prokofieva - Journal of Information Systems, 2015 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper investigates the effect of dissemination of corporate disclosure via Twitter. In
particular, the study is focused on listed companies in Australia that employed Twitter as a …

The effect of legislation on corporate disclosure practices

S Owusu‐Ansah, J Yeoh - Abacus, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the effect of the Financial Reporting Act of 1993 (FRA) on mandatory
disclosure practices of companies listed on the New Zealand Exchange Limited. The FRA …

IFRS adoption and analysts' earnings forecasts: Australian evidence

J Cotter, A Tarca, M Wee - Accounting & Finance, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We study 145 large listed Australian firms to explore the impact of international financial
reporting standards (IFRS) adoption on the properties of analysts' forecasts and the role of …

Gender diversity in corporate boards and continuous disclosure: Evidence from Australia

A Ahmed, RM Monem, D Delaney, C Ng - Journal of Contemporary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigate whether gender-diverse boards contribute to capital market efficiency
through their role in corporate disclosure. Using Australia's continuous disclosure regime …

A comparison of between‐country measures of legal setting and enforcement of accounting standards

J Preiato, P Brown, A Tarca - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Academics and practitioners agree that the enforcement of accounting standards has an
important role in promoting high quality financial reporting and favourable capital market …