MSc Dissertation Titles AF论文选题参考

• Corporate social responsibility disclosures by MNCs

• Determinants of foreign exchange risk in listed companies; and

• Determinants of cash holdings levels in listed companies.

• A content analysis and evaluation of corporate disclosures on aspects of diversity either in a chosen industry sector and/or country comparison.

• A content analysis and evaluation of corporate disclosures on aspects of corporate social responsibility in a chosen industry sector/and or country comparison.

• A content analysis and evaluation of aspects of social responsibility disclosures in accounting firm transparency reports.

• The role of management accounting and management control in the financial services industry.

• Risk management and management accounting

• Implementation of contemporary management accounting practices.

• Valuation of Insurance Companies Around the Globe

• The Value of a CEO's Risk & Insurance Education

• Brexit and the Competitiveness of U.K. Insurance Brokers

• Determinants of fair value disclosure by listed companies

• Effects of guanxi on firm behavior and firm performance

• The effect of fair value accounting on audit fees

• Does the market believe that ‘sinful’ industries (like alcohol or tobacco) can be socially responsible?

• Ways of measuring whether fund managers have ‘skill’.

• Do banks with more capital perform better during crisis times? Emerging market evidence

• CEO compensation

• Board composition (e.g., the fraction of independent directors and board gender diversity) and corporate outcomes.

• CEO turnover

• Determinates of cross-sectional variation in corporate effective tax rates (ETRs)

• Do companies’ taxation related disclosures tell us anything about their attitudes to tax avoidance?

• Use of “tax havens” by UK quoted companies.

• Anomalies and tests of asset pricing models

• News announcement effects in financial markets

• Volatility modelling and forecasting

• Mutual fund performance measurement

• Ownership structure (and/or audit quality), price synchronicity and crash risk.

• Board composition/demographics, liquidity risk and the cost of equity.

• Employees’ satisfaction and corporate risk taking.

• Asset pricing anomalies

• Mutual fund performance

• Foreign exchange exposure

• An Evaluation of Value-at-Risk models

• Asset Pricing Calendar Anomalies

• Mutual Funds Performance Measurement

• Factors affecting corporate share repurchases

• Determinants of dividend policy

• Issues in fair value reporting

• An examination of accounting conservatism post-Basu

• Does conservatism (either b2 or (b1+b2)) vary by big 4 (should be more conservative) and non-big 4 auditors?

• Does estimation of b2 vary by measure of profit/net income used?

• Corporate control and ownership in Europe and Asia

• Corporate governance in IPOs

• The employment consequences of private equity acquisitions

• A case study on implementation of ….. a given strategic management accounting tool (e.g. ABC/Balanced scorecard/budgeting etc)

• Perspectives on management accounting – views from industry, education or research

• Development of accounting education and the accounting profession

• A case study of the implementation of contemporary management accounting tools, such as the balanced scorecard or activity based management.

• Examining representations of gender in corporate annual reporting

• A textual analysis of corporate social and environmental disclosures in annual reporting

• An analysis of company incentive schemes and their ability to attract and retain managers.

• An analysis of cost management techniques and planning and control systems, to what degree does adoption of different types of strategic cost management techniques influence the budgeting process?

• Participatory budgeting or top-down management, in a participating budgetary process to what degree do managers believe they can control the setting of their performance targets?

• Content analysis and Firm Performance

• Exploratory Data Analysis on Company Financial Information

• Calendar Effects in Share Prices

• Audit Quality in the Not-for-profit Sector [Note this can be developed into other jurisdictions or entities]

• Governance and its impact on audit fees – A UK Local Government Perspective [Note this can be developed into other jurisdictions or entities]

• What is in a debt contract? A discovery.

• Disclosures in the new style auditors’ report

• Lessons from and consequences of past corporate frauds

• Compliance with best corporate governance practice

• Determinants of Audit Fees in <insert nationality> companies.

• Determinants of Capital Structure in <insert nationality> companies.

• Determinants of Corporate Cash Holdings in <insert nationality> Companies

• Forecasting and modelling (share prices),

• Pay and performance,

• Corporate social and environmental reporting.

• Corporate governance in financial institutions

• Bank failures and regulation

• Financial crime, including money laundering and market manipulation

• The corporate annual report: a photo analysis of gender and ethnic portrayals

• The Use and Abuse of Graphs in Corporate Annual Reports

• The Corporate Annual Report: Readability in the context of good and bad news.

• Does the performance of the bidder improve post-acquisition?

• Corporate governance and firm performance

• Do firm manage their earnings? A corporate governance perspective

• Fundamental analysis and stock returns

• Concept stocks and return co-movement

• Gossip and stock returns

• Does national culture influence corporate risk-taking behaviour?

• Is national culture a determinant of capital structure?

• Does national culture affect corporate cash holdings?

• The effects of regulatory changes in the European banking markets.

• US mutual fund performance and risk management.

• Explaining asset pricing anomalies.