Asian Review of Accounting: Volume 17 Issue 2

Investigating audit quality among Big 4 Malaysian firms

Tyrone M. Carlin, Nigel Finch, Nur Hidayah Laili

The purpose of this paper is to contemplate the degree to which technical expertise in Malaysian Big 4 auditing practice survives periods of material regulatory inflexion…

Exporting the RAE: adoption of similar practices in Australia and New Zealand

M.R. Mathews, Alan Sangster

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative description of performance evaluation schemes in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Students' perceptions of accounting profession: work value approach

Eleni Germanou, Trevor Hassall, Yanni Tournas

This purpose of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical framework in order to examine similarities and differences between accounting major Malaysian and English students. It…

Grameen Bank's social performance disclosure: Responding to a negative assessment by Wall Street Journal in late 2001

Muhammad Azizul Islam, Martin Reginald Mathews

The aim of this paper is to establish a linkage between negative global media news towards Grameen Bank (GB), the largest microfinance organisation in the developing world, and…

Deconstructing local government performance and infrastructure measurement

Robyn Pilcher

This paper revisits the debate regarding myriad measurement bases and begins a new discussion within a public sector environment. It does this by considering the under‐researched…