Thesis (MPAM.) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / The study examined the role of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) towards effective financial management in a case study of City of Mbombela Municipality in the Mpumalanga Province. The MPAC is established in terms of sections 33 and 79 of the Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000), to provide an oversight role and functions on behalf of council. Literature attest to the role of MPAC as to scrutinize the spending of the municipal budget at the end of the financial year, which mirrors the work done by the finance committee before the beginning of the financial year. The qualitative research method using semi-structured interviews was conducted with specific role-players as part of the identified population who were the most important participants and have contributed to the research outcome. The respondents were selected in a purposive manner by targeting MPAC members and Senior Managers of the municipality, on account of their positions and experience, have more information than ordinary potential respondents. The study found that members of the MPAC do possess the required skills, knowledge and experience to perform their roles. Therefore, the study also reveals that most members of the MPAC do have financial management and accounting capacity hence they are capable in doing the oversight role in the municipality. Therefore, it is recommended that the municipality should develop and adopt a comprehensive MPAC policy. The adopted comprehensive policy should be used as a strategic tool to inform council on the effective performance of the MPAC or lack thereof. The study concludes by recommended that further researches should be undertaken on the oversight role of the MPAC with comparative approach to other municipalities within the province could give more depth and the municipalities can learn from each other.

Esta tese tem como objetivo principal avaliar os efeitos dos incentivos fiscais sobre a estrutura de capital e a rentabilidade das companhias abertas brasileiras não financeiras. Sob o aspecto metodológico, este estudo pode ser classificado como do método quantitativo, do tipo descritivo-longitudinal e transversal. A população-alvo do estudo são as companhias abertas brasileiras não financeiras, cuja amostra é composta por aquelas que têm ações negociadas na Bovespa, totalizando 590 empresas, perfazendo um número potencial de registros contábeis de 7.670 no período de 1995 a 2007, cujos dados foram obtidos no banco de dados da Economática. Na análise transversal, os indicadores de incentivo fiscal, estrutura de capital e rentabilidade, para cada empresa, foram reduzidos aos seus valores médios. A comparação dos referidos indicadores nos grupos sem e com incentivos fiscais foi realizada por meio do teste U de Mann-Whitney para amostras independentes, com utilização da Análise de Homogeneidade (HOMALS) na construção de mapas perceptuais e realização do procedimento GLM Univariate Test para avaliar o efeito da obtenção de incentivos fiscais sobre aqueles indicadores. Na análise longitudinal, considerou-se o procedimento GLM Multivariate Test na avaliação do efeito da obtenção de incentivos fiscais e do ano em que a operação contábil foi realizada sobre os referidos indicadores. Os resultados do estudo sugerem não haver correlação estatisticamente significativa entre incentivo fiscal e indicadores de estrutura de capital. Por outro lado, identificou-se correlação estatisticamente significativa entre incentivo fiscal e rentabilidade das empresas. / The main goal of this research is to evaluate the effects of the tax incentives on the capital structure and the profitability of the Brazilian non-financial public companies. Under the methodological aspect, this study can be classified as a quantitative method, in the longitudinal-descriptive and transversal type. The target population of the study is the Brazilian non-financial public companies, which the sampling is composed by those that have stock negotiated in the Bovespa (the Brazilian trading market in São Paulo), totalizing 590 companies, amounting to a potential number of 7,760 registers during the period of 1995- 2007, which data were obtained in the data bank of Economática. In the transversal analyses the tax incentive indicators, were reduced to their average values. The comparison of the above-mentioned indicators in the groups with and without incentive was done by the test U of Mann-Whitney for the independent sampling, by the usage of the Homogeneity Analysis (HOMALS) in the construction of the perception maps and the accomplishment of the GLM Univariate Test procedure to evaluate the effect of obtaining the fiscal incentives under these indicators. In the longitudinal analyses was considered the procedure GLM Multivariate Test in the evaluation of the effect of obtaining the tax incentives and of the year that the accounting operation was done under the referred indicators. The results of the study suggest that there are no meaningful statistical correlation between the tax incentive and the capital structure indicators. On the other hand it was found a meaningful statistical correlation between the tax incentive and the profitability of the companies.

<p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa förståelse för, varför företag väljer att outsourca sin ekonomifunktion utomlands, samt identifiera eventuella oförutsedda kostnader. För att illustrera detta genomförs en fallstudie på företaget Dell. Våra data har vi inhämtat genom en kvalitativ undersökning i form av en fallstudie på företaget Dell. Vi har valt att genomföra en längre intervju med två nyckelpersoner på det svenska kontoret i Solna. I teoriavsnittet presenteras litteratur och artiklar om vad outsourcing är och innebär samt forskningsartiklar gjorda om varför företag outsourcar sin ekonomifunktion och vad de önskar uppnå. Vidare presenteras även artiklar om den skepticism som stundtals finns kring outsourcing och dess fördelar. Vår undersökning baseras på den intervju vi har gjort med Dells nordiska redovisnings chef samt den person som är Nordic Credit Manager och därmed har nära kontakt med outsourcingparten i Riga. Vi kommer genom vår studie fram till att företag främst outsourcar ekonomifunktionen i syfte att nå kostnadsbesparingar via ökad effektivitet och standardisering av processer samt lägre personalkostnader, men att även strävan efter expertis gör outsourcing till något eftersträvansvärt. Vi finner att outsourcing av ekonomifunktionen innebär kostnader i form av risken för att företaget väljer fel utomstående part, högre personalomsättning, kulturella och språkliga barriärer, minskad flexibilitet och initiativtagande. Vissa av kostnaderna är specifikt kopplade till outsourcing utomlands. Sammantaget kommer dessa kostnader att minska det förväntade positiva utfallet av outsourcingen av ekonomifunktionen i olika påtaglig omfattning.</p>

Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa förståelse för, varför företag väljer att outsourca sin ekonomifunktion utomlands, samt identifiera eventuella oförutsedda kostnader. För att illustrera detta genomförs en fallstudie på företaget Dell. Våra data har vi inhämtat genom en kvalitativ undersökning i form av en fallstudie på företaget Dell. Vi har valt att genomföra en längre intervju med två nyckelpersoner på det svenska kontoret i Solna. I teoriavsnittet presenteras litteratur och artiklar om vad outsourcing är och innebär samt forskningsartiklar gjorda om varför företag outsourcar sin ekonomifunktion och vad de önskar uppnå. Vidare presenteras även artiklar om den skepticism som stundtals finns kring outsourcing och dess fördelar. Vår undersökning baseras på den intervju vi har gjort med Dells nordiska redovisnings chef samt den person som är Nordic Credit Manager och därmed har nära kontakt med outsourcingparten i Riga. Vi kommer genom vår studie fram till att företag främst outsourcar ekonomifunktionen i syfte att nå kostnadsbesparingar via ökad effektivitet och standardisering av processer samt lägre personalkostnader, men att även strävan efter expertis gör outsourcing till något eftersträvansvärt. Vi finner att outsourcing av ekonomifunktionen innebär kostnader i form av risken för att företaget väljer fel utomstående part, högre personalomsättning, kulturella och språkliga barriärer, minskad flexibilitet och initiativtagande. Vissa av kostnaderna är specifikt kopplade till outsourcing utomlands. Sammantaget kommer dessa kostnader att minska det förväntade positiva utfallet av outsourcingen av ekonomifunktionen i olika påtaglig omfattning.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Political Science and Public Administration. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis focuses on compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements in Malaysia. There are four objectives that this study attempts to achieve, namely: (1) to ascertain whether present regulatory enforcement is effective in curbing non-compliance with IFRS in Malaysia; (2) to determine whether corporate ownership structure, culture and corporate governance attributes have a significant influence on the extent of compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements; (3) to identify the factors of (non-) compliance with IFRS from the perceptions of preparers and auditors; and (4) to explore the reasons why an unqualified audit report was issued despite non-compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. This study employs a mixed methods approach to achieve the stated objectives, where annual reports of 225 Malaysian listed companies are examined and interviews with regulators, preparers and auditors are conducted. The following findings are documented in this study. Although compliance with accounting standards is mandated by law, this study demonstrates that no Malaysian company has fully complied with IFRS disclosure requirements. Similarly, the companies examined still receive unqualified audit reports despite significant non-compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. This study argues that merely mandating compliance with accounting standards by law does not result in full compliance with accounting standards if sufficient or stringent enforcement is not in place. The Malaysian economy is dominated by family-owned companies and government-owned companies; however, this study finds that there was not enough evidence to support the influence of these ownership types on the extent of compliance with mandatory disclosure requirements. Despite the importance of corporate governance mechanisms in enhancing financial reporting quality, this study finds that only board meeting, audit committee size and audit committee expertise are significantly associated with the extent of compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. However, the association direction for audit committee expertise is puzzling, because the negative coefficient suggests that mandatory disclosure decreases with the presence of audit committee experts. This study also provides evidence that culture (ethnicity) has a significant influence on the extent of compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. This study also contributes to the extant literature by documenting the factors of (non-) compliance with IFRS from the perceptions of preparers and auditors. These factors are the attitude of top management, problems with accounting standards, lack of enforcement, passive investors, materiality, accountants’ attitude, undeveloped capital markets and political excuse. These (non-)compliance factors in fact cannot be revealed by statistical analysis. This study finds that materiality and true and fair view are the two reasons suggested by interviewees that can explain why unqualified audit opinion was expressed despite non-compliance with IFRS. Nevertheless, this study argues that materiality and true and fair view override might also be used (or misused) as an excuse by auditors for not qualifying audit reports in the case of significant non-compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements, given the subjective and vague concept of both materiality and true and fair view.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116). Also available on the Internet.

This study investigates the determinants of adopting accounting standards (AAOIFI, IFRS or local standards) in thirty different countries with an Islamic banking industry. This study also examines the link between corporate governance disclosure, corporate social responsibility disclosure, and the adoption of accounting standards in the Islamic banking industry (IBI) as consequences for the adoption process. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only study that empirically investigates this topic. Environmental determinism theory is used as a framework to develop and test for explanations of the accounting standards used in countries where Islamic banks operate. Using multinomial logistic analysis to investigate the determinants of adopting any of the accounting standards sets (AAOIFI, IFRS, LOCAL), I find that both internal environmental factors, such as the level of education and the sophistication of the financial press, as well as enforcement factors, such as the existence of a centralised Sharia committee, are likely to have an impact on the accounting standards adopted by the Islamic banking industry. In regard to the second objective of examining the link between corporate governance disclosure, corporate social responsibility disclosure, and the adoption of accounting standards in the Islamic banking industry (IBI), multivariate regression was used to analyse the data. The results present that: there is an association between corporate governance disclosure and social responsibility disclosure with the accounting standard adopted in the country. The analysis also presents that both types of disclosure within the IBI is associated with the other non-accounting institutions in the country as openness to economy, political stability, and enforcement mechanisms such as a centralised Sharia committee in the country. This result implies that the specific accounting standards adopted by the Islamic banking industry are subject to the internal environment of, and the enforcement mechanisms imposed by, the country. This result further suggests that accounting institutions such as accounting standards adoption and non-accounting institutions are associated with disclosure practices in IBI. Therefore, a conclusion can be drawn that adoption of accounting standards within the Islamic banking industry is an important accounting institution which can be determined by other institutions, as well as affecting disclosure practices in the industry.

Esta tese tem como objetivo principal avaliar os efeitos dos incentivos fiscais sobre a estrutura de capital e a rentabilidade das companhias abertas brasileiras não financeiras. Sob o aspecto metodológico, este estudo pode ser classificado como do método quantitativo, do tipo descritivo-longitudinal e transversal. A população-alvo do estudo são as companhias abertas brasileiras não financeiras, cuja amostra é composta por aquelas que têm ações negociadas na Bovespa, totalizando 590 empresas, perfazendo um número potencial de registros contábeis de 7.670 no período de 1995 a 2007, cujos dados foram obtidos no banco de dados da Economática. Na análise transversal, os indicadores de incentivo fiscal, estrutura de capital e rentabilidade, para cada empresa, foram reduzidos aos seus valores médios. A comparação dos referidos indicadores nos grupos sem e com incentivos fiscais foi realizada por meio do teste U de Mann-Whitney para amostras independentes, com utilização da Análise de Homogeneidade (HOMALS) na construção de mapas perceptuais e realização do procedimento GLM Univariate Test para avaliar o efeito da obtenção de incentivos fiscais sobre aqueles indicadores. Na análise longitudinal, considerou-se o procedimento GLM Multivariate Test na avaliação do efeito da obtenção de incentivos fiscais e do ano em que a operação contábil foi realizada sobre os referidos indicadores. Os resultados do estudo sugerem não haver correlação estatisticamente significativa entre incentivo fiscal e indicadores de estrutura de capital. Por outro lado, identificou-se correlação estatisticamente significativa entre incentivo fiscal e rentabilidade das empresas. / The main goal of this research is to evaluate the effects of the tax incentives on the capital structure and the profitability of the Brazilian non-financial public companies. Under the methodological aspect, this study can be classified as a quantitative method, in the longitudinal-descriptive and transversal type. The target population of the study is the Brazilian non-financial public companies, which the sampling is composed by those that have stock negotiated in the Bovespa (the Brazilian trading market in São Paulo), totalizing 590 companies, amounting to a potential number of 7,760 registers during the period of 1995- 2007, which data were obtained in the data bank of Economática. In the transversal analyses the tax incentive indicators, were reduced to their average values. The comparison of the above-mentioned indicators in the groups with and without incentive was done by the test U of Mann-Whitney for the independent sampling, by the usage of the Homogeneity Analysis (HOMALS) in the construction of the perception maps and the accomplishment of the GLM Univariate Test procedure to evaluate the effect of obtaining the fiscal incentives under these indicators. In the longitudinal analyses was considered the procedure GLM Multivariate Test in the evaluation of the effect of obtaining the tax incentives and of the year that the accounting operation was done under the referred indicators. The results of the study suggest that there are no meaningful statistical correlation between the tax incentive and the capital structure indicators. On the other hand it was found a meaningful statistical correlation between the tax incentive and the profitability of the companies.