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Determinants Of Consumer Confidence Index To Predict The Economy In Indonesia, Benny Budiawan Tjandrasa, Vera Intanie Dewi

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

Psychological factors play an important role in the economy and in predicting the state of the economy. One of the measurement tools of these factors is the consumer confidence index (CCI), which has recently received much attention from both researchers and policymakers. For years, Bank Indonesia has conducted surveys through face-to-face and phone call interviews with several respondents who were used as research samples to control information on economic fundamentals. The purpose of this study is to explore a new variable that is thought to affect the consumer confidence index in Indonesia and explain the influence between variables from the …

The Readability Of Sustainability Reporting In New Zealand Over Time, Azadeh Nilipour, Tracy-Anne De Silva, Xuedong Li

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This paper examines the readability of sustainability reporting in the annual reports, and stand-alone reports of New Zealand listed companies over a ten-year period. Sustainability reporting was manually extracted from 264 reports, and readability software was used to identify the readability scores using five readability indices. Additionally, the effects of reporting quantity, environmental sensitivity, and global listing on the readability of sustainability reporting were examined.

The results show that over the ten-year period readability has improved by only 6.5 per cent, despite a substantial increase in the number of companies reporting sustainability information, and an increase in the quantity of …

Simulating Stock Prices Using Geometric Brownian Motion: Evidence From Australian Companies, Krishna Reddy, Vaughan Clinton

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This study uses the geometric Brownian motion (GBM) method to simulate stock price paths, and tests whether the simulated stock prices align with actual stock returns. The sample for this study was based on the large listed Australian companies listed on the S&P/ASX 50 Index. Daily stock price data was obtained from the Thomson One database over the period 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2014. The findings are slightly encouraging as results show that over all time horizons the chances of a stock price simulated using GBM moving in the same direction as real stock prices was a little …