The value relevance of 'realistic reporting': evidence from UK life insurers
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Accounting in life insurance firms in the United Kingdom is directed at postponing profit recognition and distribution, in spite of the International Financial Reporting Standard 4 implementation. Embedded values are used by insurers not only from the UK and the Continental Europe but also in the United States. Unconventional realistic reporting's value relevance is tested.
Publication Name: Accounting and Business Research
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4788
Year: 2007
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Organisational culture and budgetary control in a UK local government organisation
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A study to determine budgetary control and the effect of organisational culture is presented. The research, which uses canonical correlation analysis, analyses budget-related behaviour in a UK local government organisation and concludes that there is a correlation with organisational culture.
Publication Name: Accounting and Business Research
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4788
Year: 1997
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Investigating the audit fee structure of local authorities in England and Wales
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The modeling and testing of the audit fee stucture of English and Welsh local governments, based on the the fees charged by the four largest audit firms in Britain and the remaining private sector auditors, is described.
Publication Name: Accounting and Business Research
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4788
Year: 2007
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