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The Role of Auditing in the Management of Corporate Fraud
Full text linkPurpose This chapter adopts Porter’s ‘audit trinity’ approach comprising internal audit, external audit and audit committee to discuss the role auditing can play in the management of corporate fraud. Design/methodology/approach The chapter maps the historical background of and the developments in external audit as an assurance service, the internal audit function and the audit committee. Based on this, it explains the nature, types and possible causes of corporate fraud within the context of business risk with a view to establishing how auditing can help in managing such frauds. Findings The chapter highlights the relationships that should exist between the three audit types in order to support a sound internal control system as a tool for preventing and detecting corporate fraud. Research limitations/implications The chapter identifies cost, opportunity, connivance and managerial override as factors that could limit the ability of auditing to manage corporate fraud. It also suggests ways of addressing these limitations. Practical implications As the current upward trend in IT adoption for corporate operations continue to open new sets of corporate fraud windows, this chapter examines how an entity’s internal controls can be used to prevent and detect these growing fraud schemes. Originality/value The chapter’s unique strength is its adoption of a holistic approach to auditing to suggest ways of managing corporate fraud – a novelty in the corporate fraud literature. It is hoped that future research in the area will bring empirical insights to the issues raised and perspectives covered in the chapter
Managerial ownership and firm performance: The influence of family directors and non-family directors
No full textPurpose The main purpose of the study is to examine the influence of family directors on the firm performance of public listed companies (PLCs) in Malaysia. This study provides empirical evidence on the agency problems between controlling shareholders and minority interests in the concentrated ownership setting. Design/methodology/approach Samples of the study are 112 PLCs in year 2006. Two measures of firm performance are used: return on assets (ROA) and Tobin’s Q. Managerial ownership refers to the percentage shareholdings of executive directors with direct and indirect holdings. It was further categorized into family ownership and non-family ownership.Findings In relation to ROA, managerial ownership is found positively significant. The results also show that the positive relationship between managerial ownership is contributed by the managerial-non-family ownership. In relation to Tobin’s Q, the results show a U-shape with turning point at 31.38% for managerial ownership and 28.29% for the managerial-family ownership. The results found significant and positive relationships between managerial ownership and both measures of firm performance which indicates that managerial ownership and family ownership yield greater efficiency.Research implications
The study highlights the effects of corporate governance on ROA and Tobin’s Q are somewhat different. It provides some evidence on the need to use appropriate measure of firm performance. The significant relationship supports the argument of Chami (1999), Fama and Jensen (1983), and DeAngelo and DeAngelo (1985) and empirical evidence of Lee (2004) that family ownership enhances monitoring activities.Originality/value
Differentiating the types of managerial ownership into family and non-family categories enriches our knowledge about who actually contributes to the improved performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Muslim minority in China: the case of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang
No full textOf the many minority Muslim groups in China, Uyghurs in Xinjiang Autonomous Region are currently being perceived by Beijing government as to have caused disunity in the country and involved in terrorist activities for which suppressive measures are warranted particularly since the Urumqi Riot in 2009. Consequently, the Uyghurs who belonged to Turkic ethnic group are prohibited among others from performing prayers in public, fasting during the month of Ramadhan for those in government service, growing beard for men below the age of fifty, etc. While the Beijing government argued that the measures are necessary in order to curb possible threats from the Uyghur population, the latter viewed that the restrictive rules are unjustified discrimination against the group. Using mainly content-analysis and library research methods, the paper will shed light on the history of the Uyghur community in Xinjiang, followed by their socio-economic and political conditions under the Chinese rule, and finally the contemporary situations in Xinjiang. Despite being the majority group in Xinjiang, due to several unwanted incidents in the province in recent years, the Uyghurs have gradually been deprived of their rights to practice Islam and lead Islamic lifestyle. The paper will thus assess the reasons behinds the increasingly stern Beijing policy towards the Uyghurs as well as the counter-reactions of the group towards such a policy
The fiqh method in Islamic social entrepreneurship: an introduction
No full textIslamic social entrepreneurship is an alternative to Western social entrepreneurship. This is because Islamic social entrepreneurship is based on the guidance of the Quran and as-Sunnah. The fiqh method is the method used by the ulama of mujtahid and fatwa in order to solve problems which are not mentioned in the Qur’anic and As-Sunnah verses for the new problems. There are five common methods of fiqh being discussed that each item is assessed on the basis of intentions, confidence is not lost with doubt, difficulty in bringing convenience, danger must be eliminated and custom made law. All five common fiqh methods are discussed in this paper to enable social entrepreneurs to pursue holistic social entrepreneurship. The research methodology is based on library research and content analysis based on past studies, fiqh scholars and references to the Qur’anic and As-Sunnah texts. The findings show that all these fiqh methods can be used as a guide to apply the concept of Islamic social entrepreneurship among social entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Therefore, scientific research will be thoroughly screened in this paper
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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