{"title":"Audit Quality, Board Governance and Real Earnings Management – Indonesian Evidence","authors":"None Krismiaji, None Handayani, None Sumayyah","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.08.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.08.07","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the research that investigates the impact of audit quality on earnings management with board governance moderation. Audit quality is proxied by audit firm size, while board governance is measured by board independence. This research used data on manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017-2021 and obtained 102 companies or 510 firm-year observances. This research found that a strong governance board encourages the quality of auditors to prevent real earnings management practices. When real earnings management is decomposed into three measures, the measure that produces the findings is consistent with aggregate real earnings management, only real management of production costs. Meanwhile, real earnings management of operating cash flows produces insignificant findings, while real management of discretionary expenditures produces opposite results. This research complements the previous literature on earnings management and the variables that influence it, both positive and negative influences.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136035242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accounting Operations Specific to Agricultural Cooperatives Cultivating and Processing Vegetables (V)","authors":"Paul C. Șchiopu","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.08.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.08.01","url":null,"abstract":"We conclude the series of articles dealing with accounting operations specific to agricultural cooperatives that produce and process vegetables with the subject of organizing vegetable baskets/crates, by presenting the administrative and accounting circuit within the agricultural cooperative.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136035375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Affecting Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Use of Accounting Information on Culinary Business in the North Purwokerto","authors":"Hanna Hanifa","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.08.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.08.05","url":null,"abstract":"This research is survey research on MSME in the North Purwokerto sub-district. Lack of ability to use accounting information is one of the main factors that cause problems and result in the failure of MSMEs in developing businesses. This study aims to examine and analyze the factors that influence the use of accounting information. These factors are owner/manager education level, business age, business size, business turnover and accounting training. This study uses primary data. The population in this study is the MSME culinary sector in the North Purwokerto sub-district. The sampling technique used was convenience sampling. The data was collected by conducting a field survey using a questionnaire. Respondents in this study were 60 MSME owners/managers in the culinary sector in North Purwokerto. The data analysis method used multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS Statistics 23 with α 0.05. The results of this study indicate that business age, business turnover and accounting training affect the use of accounting information. Accounting training is the factor that most influences the use of accounting information. However, the owner/manager’s education level and business size did not affect the use of accounting information.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135782684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All’s (or Not) Fair in Work and Life? Focus on Females in Information and Communications Technology Through the Prism of Work-Life Balance","authors":"Wiza Munyeka, Ashika Maharaj","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.08.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.08.06","url":null,"abstract":"The changing nature of employment and work has resulted in new demands and challenges in society, such as work-life balance, that have developed in labor relations as an imperative aspect of a beneficial work environment. Scholars affirm that implementing work-life balance practices aid in achieving better organizational results and improve employee outcomes like satisfaction, commitment and reduced turnover intentions. However, some authors have argued that there are variances between the availability of work-life balance practices in corporations and employees’ perceptions of access to such practices. This study’s purpose was to explore the professionals’ perceptions of work-life balance on managing career and personal life at a telecommunications company. This study adopted a qualitative semi-structured interview method to gather data from 16 participants selected through a purposive sampling method. The results indicated that participants agreed that when they thought about work-life balance, it meant controlling their work and life aspects, like personal interests, family, social and leisure, resulting in a balance over life and work and them being happier and more productive. This study unveiled different perceptions of female information and communications technology professionals. Reflecting that, the study emphasized the advancement of work-life balance practices to encourage and modify employees’ perceptions.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136035378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of the Pandemic Wave on the Entrepreneurial Initiative in Romania","authors":"Claudia-Florina Botar","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.07.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.07.07","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring the implications of the shock wave propagated following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is becoming an exhausting process. The negative impact on the business environment during the sanitary crisis certifies the imbalance occurred within the entrepreneurial initiative, based on the uncertainty felt in the financial area and equally in the emotional one, emphasizing the vulnerability, incertitude and instability of those who intend to develop and apply a business plan. This article highlights the degradation of the entrepreneurial activity during the pandemic, based on the statistical analysis regarding the action of setting up an entity and not only that, emphasizing the influence promoting factors of the behaviour related to the adoption of the entrepreneur status, given the circumstances created by the sanitary crisis, with great effect on the economic world. Likewise, the issues regarding the suspension of a company’s activity provides indices with regard to the seriousness of the situation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, being analysed during the work. The adjustment and relaunching of the post-pandemic economic activity remains a desideratum of the economic world, even after a significant period from the disappearance of the pandemic wave.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136300767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment Approaches: The Income Approach (II)","authors":"Elena Valentina Țilică, Radu Ciobanu","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.06.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.06.04","url":null,"abstract":"According to the International Assessment Standards, in order to obtain a certain type of value, the three approaches of the unanimously acknowledged and applied value may be used, that are substantiated on the economic principles of substitution, variable proportions or benefits anticipation: the cost, market and income approach. In the article hereby we present aspects concerning the income approach, which consists of setting the value of the enterprise from the perspective of taking into consideration its capacity to generate profits/earnings for its future functioning. Financially, no investment has sense than by the cash flows likely to be achieved as a result of it. Thus, it is deemed that the amount of any invested capital must be estimated in terms of the earnings brought in the future.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136254911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship Between Sustainability Reporting and Corporate Performance. Evidence from the European Energy Sector","authors":"Pompei Mititean, Nicoleta-Florina Sărmaș","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.07.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.07.06","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relationship between corporate sustainability, as measured by the combined environmental, social and governance (ESG) and individual scores, and corporate performance of companies operating in the European energy sector. Due to the new EU regulation, companies must adopt strategies regarding environmental, social and governance activities, elaborating an integrated report that shows investors how they are involved in social issues and environmental concerns. This study is based on a quantitative research method which involves using an econometric model and running a multiple linear regression. The data used was collected from the Thomson Reuters Eikon database and covers the period 2017-2021. The identified results are mixed. There is a positive, but statistically insignificant relationship between ESG, ENV, SOC and ROA, while there is a negative and significant relationship between GOV and ROA at the 0.05 level. ENV and SOC scores have a strong negative and significant impact on ROE, and ESG and GOV do not show a significant relationship with it. Additionally, ESG has a significant positive impact on Tobin’s Q ratio, and ENV and SOC have a significant positive impact on it. This research can help investors and other stakeholders have an overview of the energy sector in which they can direct their investment strategies.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136300556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bibliometric Analysis of the Implications of Artificial Intelligence on the Accounting Profession","authors":"Ovidiu-Constantin Bunget, Cristian Lungu","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.05.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.05.07","url":null,"abstract":"Society is going through a digital transformation, and the accounting and financial services industry is no exception. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to significant changes in the way accounting and financial services are delivered, resulting in more efficient and accurate processes. This study proposes the analysis of the relevance of specialized literature in the field of AI to highlight the impact generated by these technologies on the accounting profession. The research studies 82 references extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database, published between 1991 and 2023. The mapping of the scientific literature was carried out by means of the Biblioshiny programme. The results of the study outline an increasing trend in the number of publications analyzing the impact of AI technologies on the accounting profession since 2015. We also note a greater concentration of articles published in highly developed countries such as the United States of America, China and Australia. Finally, the results revealed a strong connection between the concept of artificial intelligence and the accounting profession. Our study contributes to the literature on AI technologies and the accounting profession by highlighting key concepts specific to previous research, the spatial distribution of publications and outstanding scientific papers in the field.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135434777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of IPSAS Adoption in Public Institutions in Romania on the Quality of Financial Reporting","authors":"Elena Alina Olaru (Colbea)","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.04.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.04.03","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the practical improvement on the quality of financial reporting in the Romanian public institutions after implementing IPSAS. To test our hypothesis, we used a questionnaire addressed to the accounting professionals from the local public administration, in which 164 respondents participated. In this revision, we use a linear regression analysis method to examine the relationship between the implementation of IPSAS and the quality of financial reporting in the Romanian public institutions. The introduction of IPSAS, as demonstrated by empirical studies, is significantly positively related to the quality of financial reporting in the Romanian public institutions. The findings of this research recommend that regulators take appropriate measures to ensure compliance by those responsible for the preparation of financial statements of public sector entities. Efforts should also be made to improve the quality of disclosure of relevant financial reports to help users make beneficial economic decisions.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"428 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135757221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radu Ciobanu, Adriana Florina Popa, Daniela-Nicoleta Sahlian
{"title":"Analysis of the Decisive Factors of the VAT Gap","authors":"Radu Ciobanu, Adriana Florina Popa, Daniela-Nicoleta Sahlian","doi":"10.37945/cbr.2023.01.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37945/cbr.2023.01.06","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to identify the possible factors that influence the value added tax gap – the VAT gap. The VAT gap is an estimate of the unpaid VAT in the economy, calculated as the difference between the theoretical obligation for the value added tax that can be collected in respect with all the transactions in the economy and the actual VAT paid to the state budget. A high value of this indicator may highlight issues related to tax evasion and the inefficiency of the tax system. The article summarizes existing studies that quantify the VAT gap and aims to identify the relationship between the VAT gap or the VAT revenues and various economic, fiscal and social factors present in EU member countries. The panel regression and clustered regression models have been used in this paper in order to determine the statistically significant variables that have an impact on the VAT gap.","PeriodicalId":497249,"journal":{"name":"Contabilitatea, expertiza şi auditul afacerilor","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}