Contemporary Research In Accounting And Finance

The business world needs to follow developments in the areas of accounting, auditing and finance in order to be able to adapt to globalization, technological advances and changing human needs. This book explores current issues in accounting, auditing and finance from a scientific point of view, and makes various suggestions for their solutions. In this context, the contributions here take into account the latest developments in the field and utilise a wide range of resources. The reader will learn about participation banks, audit risk, financial manipulation, forensic accounting, accounting errors, the effects of blockchain technologies, electronic finances, efficient markets hypothesis, integrated reporting, production costs, Islamic banking, enterprise risk management systems, and TAS16.

The competitive nature of organizations in today’s globalized world has led to the development of various approaches to increasing profitability and maintaining an advantage over rival companies. As technology continues to be integrated into business practices, specifically in the area of accounting and finance, professionals and educators need to be prepared for advancing economic techniques, and they need to maintain a high level of financial literacy. The Handbook of Research on Accounting and Financial Studies is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on advanced knowledge and emerging business practices and teaching dynamics in the fields of accounting and finance. While highlighting topics such as cost-benefit analysis, risk management, and corporate governance, this publication explores new initiatives in entrepreneurship and performance management. This book is ideally designed for business managers, consultants, entrepreneurs, auditors, tax practitioners, economists, accountants, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on modern advancements and recent findings in accounting and financial studies.

This book gathers the proceedings of the ICAFFI International Conference on Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions. The main topics addressed include: corporate finance, financial markets and asset pricing, empirical finance, taxation, financial risk management, international finance, financial econometrics, financial reporting and accounting standards, managerial accounting, measuring financial performance, accounting information systems, and current issues in accounting and finance in emerging and other markets. Presenting both cutting-edge research and a broad set of methods, and combining practical and theoretical perspectives, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and regulators alike.

The book compiles a comprehensive set of case of studies in business and accounting from the MENA region. These case studies consist of practical research studies with strong theoretical foundations. Hence, the book is a guide to the industries in various sectors regarding the best practices for efficient business and accounting management. In addition, the book will serve as an important teaching reference for business and accounting courses in the MENA region.

"This book, "Contemporary Research in Accounting: An Indonesian Context," will lead its readers to explore an oasis of contemporary research on accounting at the backdrop of an emerging giant-Indonesia. Written by prominent researchers at Universitas Indonesia, the topmost Business School in Indonesia, as well as a manifold of researchers from other top-ranked universities and institutions, this book provides immense assistance for the readers to gain how various research methods are implemented in contemporary accounting topics. Moreover, this book may cater to the interests of accounting practitioners and consultants too in understanding a wide range of most-recent accounting issues in both public and private sectors, particularly in the following areas: 1. Financial and management accounting: This chapter features contemporary issues in the core topics of accounting. Articles discussing accounting practices in commercial sectors are presented in this chapter including case studies on time-driven activity-based cost in an airline company and cost allocation at an automotive company. Interestingly, this chapter also brings special attention to financial and management accounting practices in Indonesian public sector, such as intangible asset management, livestock accounting, strategic and budget planning, accounting for revenue and public facilities in several ministerial offices. 2. Auditing and taxation: Various novel studies in contemporary auditing and taxation topics are presented in this chapter, including analysis on the implementation of tax allowance and tax holiday on investment activities, tax avoidance of shariah-compliant firms and non-shariah compliant firms, as well as tax audit findings analysis on oil and gas industry. 3. Governance and internal control: Internal control is an imperative bedrock to establish good governance. Discussion on the two topics is of interest of this chapter. Articles covered in the chapter include internal control analysis over the legal liabilities financial reporting procedure at a ministerial office, accountability practices at a social insurance organization, and implementation of the anti-fraud strategy We hope fellow researchers from qualitative and quantitative streams, students with a thirst for knowledge, resourceful librarians, and lifelong practitioner learners find this book as a solid grounding of highly relevant contemporary accounting topics, particularly within the context of Indonesia"--

The book explores the developing challenges and opportunities within the business and finance world which are likely to impact the accounting profession in the near future. It outlines a number of approaches to ensure that the accountants of the future are equipped with a useful awareness of some of the key topic areas that are quickly becoming a reality and helps bridge the gap between academia and practice. The chapters are standalone introductory pieces to provide useful précis of key topics and how they apply to the accounting profession in particular. It aims to deliver key readings on ‘hot topics’ not addressed in other texts which the accounting profession is tackling or are likely to tackle soon. Hence the book provides accounting students and researchers a solid grounding in a broad range of highly relevant non-technical accounting themes, looking at the bigger environment in which future accountants will be operating, involving considerations of strategic corporate governance issues and highlighting competences beyond the standard technical accounting skill sets.

This proceedings volume examines accounting and financial issues and trends from both global and local economic perspectives. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting (ACFA) held in Prague, Czech Republic, this book offers a mixture of research methods and micro- and macroeconomic approaches to depict a detailed picture of the impact of global and local determinants on the globalized economy. The global perspectives versus local specifics make the volume useful for not only academics and scholars, but also for regulators and policy makers when deliberating the potential outcome of competing regulatory mechanisms. The Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting (ACFA) has become one of the biggest conferences in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region solely oriented to contemporary research in finance and accounting. Bringing together researchers and scholars from all over the world, the conference provides a platform in which thoughts, visions, and contemporary developments in the field of finance and accounting are discussed.

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, 4th Edition by Greenbaum, Thakor, and Boot continues to offer a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. Instead of primarily naming and describing markets, regulations, and institutions as is common, Contemporary Financial Intermediation explores the subtlety, plasticity and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets. In this new edition every chapter has been updated and pedagogical supplements have been enhanced. For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises occur and how we typically react to them. Our textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched. Updates and expands a legacy title in a valuable field Holds a prominent position in a growing portfolio of finance textbooks Teaches tactics on how to recognize and forecast fluctuations in financial markets

"We are pleased to offer you with the following book titled "Contemporary Issues in Finance, Accounting and Consumers' Behaviour: Lesson From Indonesia" written by prominent authors who are specialized in the area from the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, and other top-ranked universities in Indonesia. The book covers some most recent studies and updated issues in the following areas: 1. Corporate Finance, Governance and Social Responsibility: The articles in this chapter discuss recent issues related with corporate financial management in various contexts, including risk management, risk-taking behaviour, CSR as both an antecedent and a consequence, as well as recent issues in accounting like carbon emission disclosure. 2. Auditing and Accounting Education: This chapters contains articles that analyze how earning management practice could be minimized, how risk-based internal audit could affect credit process, how settlement of government losses is practiced in central government institution, IFRS convergence and discussions on what motivates students to become accounting educators. 3. Islamic Economics and Consumer Behavior: Some issues discussed by the articles in this chapter include Islamic microfinance and women's empowerment, intention to purchase various products and services (e.g. halal personal care products, commercial airline services, motorcycle, muslim fashions, etc.), zakat as a tax deducation and its influence on tax compliance and spirituality in the workplace. This book is strongly recommended to be used as a reference for researchers, students and also business practitioners not only in Indonesia, but also wider audiences that required deeper insights/thoughts in dynamic, changing and global emerging market (i.e. in Indonesia)"--