A research report submitted In partial fulfilment of the degree of Masters of Commerce in Accounting, School of Accountancy, 2015 / This study is concerned with the adoption of materiality as a key reporting principle in the integrated report. This study investigates how preparers are determining which information is material and ought to be included in their integrated reports. The influence of logics is observed through an investigation of the different conceptualisations of the materiality concept by the preparers of integrated reports. Qualitative data was gathered from interviews with preparers of integrated reports in South Africa. The data was analysed using a grounded theory approach and the interplay between old and new logics that are shaping materiality in integrated reporting was identified. The findings of this research indicate that there are three groups of preparers each embodying different logics. The compliance preparers view integrated reporting as a compliance exercise. The stakeholder-aware preparers are aware that the integrated report should communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders and the interpretive preparer uses the integrated report not only to communicate to stakeholders but to identify weaknesses with in the entity. The findings also indicate that there are variations in practices and understandings of materiality and reveal differing organisational priorities which highlight the extent to which materiality is a social and behavioural phenomenon. The research adds to the limited body of corporate governance research drawing on an interpretive epistemology to explore recent reporting developments in a South African context the findings of this study will be relevant for the current debate about materiality in the integrated report, especially given the emergence of integrated corporate report. Keywords: King 3, GRI, Sustainable reporting, South Africa, Materiality, Institutional Logics, Integrated report. / MT2017

The purpose of this thesis is to run a panel regression analyzing the impact of economic, legislative and social factors on corporate tax revenues, as defined by existing empiric and theoretic literature. Literature which directly addresses factors influencing corporate income tax revenues is quite limited -- in respect of number of papers as well as in respect of the range of examined countries and/or time period. The latest and key papers include among others Clausing (2007), Devereux (2006) and partly Kenny, Winer (2006) and Gropp, Kostial (2000). Presented thesis on the other hand covers observations for all OECD countries for a rather long time period 1980 -- 2006. This thesis should address all important factors having influence on corporate income tax revenues, including tax avoidance and debt financing. The results of the analysis largely correspond to existing investigations of other authors; however, presented regression is of more complex and general character -- it includes other factors of tax avoidance and data for all OECD members (except for some variables which are not available), including post-communist countries.

Bibliography: leaves 276-295. / vi, 448, [32] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Education, 1995

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