Pacific Accounting Review: Volume 24 Issue 1

Female directors and earnings management in high‐technology firms

Ilanit Gavious, Einav Segev, Rami Yosef

This study, based on a merger of gender and accounting theories, aims to explore whether and how earnings management is affected by the presence of female directors on the board…

Assessing going concern: The practical value of corporate failure models and auditors' perceptions

Nirosh Kuruppu, Fawzi Laswad, Peter Oyelere

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the practical efficacy of statistical corporate failure models in improving auditors' going concern assessment. It also aims to examine…

Success in winning Australian Research Council grants as a measure of comparative professionalised disciplinary research activity

Kevin Clarke, Jack Flanagan, Sharron O'Neill

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance of accounting researchers in winning competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, when compared with researchers…

Ethics and experiments in accounting: A contribution to the debate on measuring ethical behaviour

Kevin Holmes, Lisa Marriott, John Randal

This research aims to measure compliance in a tax experiment among students. The aim of the study is to investigate relationships between claimed behaviour in a questionnaire and…

Joint book review:Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting (Second Edition)

Deborah Russell

Contemporary Issues in International Corporate Governance

Neil Crombie

2011 Awards for Excellence

Chee Seng Cheong