• 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.
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