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Corporate Governance, Risk Assessment And Cost Of Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan, Ray Mcnamara
Corporate Governance, Risk Assessment And Cost Of Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan, Ray Mcnamara
Ray McNamara
This paper examines the impact of corporate governance practices on the reported cost of contracted debt for Australian listed companies. Good governance decreases the variability in cash flows, reduces the probability of default (reduces default risk), increases the quality of value-relevant information disclosed (reduces the information risk) and thereby lowers the cost of debt (Ashbaugh-Skaife, Collins, and LaFond 2006; Sengupta 1998; Bhojraj and Sengupta 2003; Beekes and Brown 2006; Klein 2002; Easley and O'Hara 2004). Similarly our Australian data confirms that cost of debt is positively related to default and information risks. We show that increased corporate governance reduces default …
Corporate Governance, Risk Assessment And Cost Of Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan, Ray Mcnamara
Corporate Governance, Risk Assessment And Cost Of Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan, Ray Mcnamara
Keith Duncan
This paper examines the impact of corporate governance practices on the reported cost of contracted debt for Australian listed companies. Good governance decreases the variability in cash flows, reduces the probability of default (reduces default risk), increases the quality of value-relevant information disclosed (reduces the information risk) and thereby lowers the cost of debt (Ashbaugh-Skaife, Collins, and LaFond 2006; Sengupta 1998; Bhojraj and Sengupta 2003; Beekes and Brown 2006; Klein 2002; Easley and O'Hara 2004). Similarly our Australian data confirms that cost of debt is positively related to default and information risks. We show that increased corporate governance reduces default …
Financial Reporting In 1920: The Case Of Industrial Companies, Jeffrey Archambault, Marie Archambault
Financial Reporting In 1920: The Case Of Industrial Companies, Jeffrey Archambault, Marie Archambault
Jeffrey Archambault
This study uses the 1920 Moody’s Analysis of Industrial Investments to assess the extent of financial reporting by U.S. industrial companies. The reporting of an income statement and a balance sheet, as well as the amount of disclosure in both of these statements, is examined empirically to determine which economic factors influence this reporting. The results show that corporate-governance, operating, and financing factors all significantly influence the reporting of financial statements and the extent of disclosure within those statements. However, the significant factors vary across the two financial statements and the two decisions considered (reporting a particular statement and the …
Redefining Internal Audit Performance: Impact On Corporate Governance, Razimah Abdullah
Redefining Internal Audit Performance: Impact On Corporate Governance, Razimah Abdullah
Razimah Abdullah
One of the preventive measures to situations akin to world financial crises increasingly forwarded is effective internal audit function (IAF) (e.g., Imhoff, 2003; Mohamad & Muhamad Sori, 2011). Internal audit, a component of corporate governance, continues to evolve due to changes in business strategies and requirements placed on it by legislators. The roles of internal auditors and audit committees (ACs), the key personnel in IAFs, are changing to a more value-added approach as business strategies move towards corporate sustainability and organisational excellence. Suggestions forwarded to improve the performance or determining the quality of IAF include effective involvement of ACs in …