Journal of accounting, finance and auditing studies

20-35

Authors: Bilgehan TEKİN

This study aims to determine the articles that are most concerned with the subject of queuing theory in the world, most cited studies, the scientific meetings that related to the topic and the most used keywords based on Web of Science (WOS) bibliographic database. The study is intended a bibliometric mapping and analysis of academic papers that carried out in the field of queuing theory in the international area. The search that made on WOS, includes between 1990 and 2015 November. According to the initial screening result on WOS, it has seen that a total of 59 studies were published since 1990 with the topic of "queuing theory" in social sciences and in operations research indexes. Then these studies were analyzed.

56-63

Authors: Obigbemi Imoleayo FOYEKE, Faboyede Samuel OLUSOLA, Adeyemo Kingsley ADEREMI

Finance mix is a major factor that affects the liquidity and the going concern of a business enterprise. After an idea has been conceived by an entrepreneur, there is need to also analyse the capital required for startup and means of financing the project. A good combination of sources of finance is expected to boost the profitability of an organization, but if not properly mixed, could have a negative effect on the profitability of the organization. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effects of financial structure on the profitability of manufacturing companies in Nigeria. This study employed the use of secondary data. The Spearman’s Rank correlation and regression techniques were used for analysis, using the STATA Package for a sample of 25 manufacturing companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period 2008-2012. The study showed that equity has a significant positive relationship with the profitability of manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The study recommends that managers should place greater emphasis on the facilitation of equity capital and policy makers should encourage manufacturing companies by reducing the cost of debt.

85-97

Authors: Samuel FABOYEDE, Obiamaka NWOBU, Oladimeji AKANDE, Olufemi OLADIPO

21st century education standards focus on 21st century skills, content knowledge and expertise. Technology advances such as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) have revolutionized the way information is exchanged and the way business is conducted. These days, speed is of the essence and loss of accuracy, lack of transparency, and difficulty in analysis are increasingly becoming apparent risks. This research exposes XBRL as a phenomenon that represents the future of global accounting education. It discusses the concept and need for XBRL as well as its potential uses and challenges. The research found that there is an ongoing transformation in the way business is conducted and regulated world-wide. The onslaught of the information revolution has profound ramifications for corporate reporting information preparers and users. It therefore recommends that the greater the degree of collaboration between all participants in the financial information supply chain, including government regulators and public sector accountants, the greater the benefits that this information format enables for all participants, educationists, academics, companies, regulators, investors, and government agencies alike.

115-132

Authors: Hilmi KIRLIOĞLU, Fırat ALTINKAYNAK

Globalization has removed borders of trade on the world and this result has directed to globalize the accounting systems. IAS (International Accounting Standards) and IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) are developed and updated everyday and these systems are integrated our country. “Capital Stock’s Conservation and Persistence” has been emphasized with importance on the IAS / IFRS’s "Conceptual Framework" and for that reason, the profit-loss calculations have been made with method of "Economic Profit and EBITDA (earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization)" and the aim of this study is; giving a different standpoint for companies performance evaluations may be made more effective. Companies are to declare periodic amounts of profit or loss and as a result of this study is; these amounts have been found to reflect only tax or financial amounts. Hence, can be correctly calculated the real commercial amounts of profit-loss is demonstrating once more face the day importance of companies performance evaluation.

158-184

Authors: M.Fevzi ESEN

In an efficient market that has reduced systematic risk, the essential requirement of accurate pricing of financial instruments is equal access to the information, namely, disclosure. Insider trading as one of the problems related asymmetric information on financial markets prevents market transparency and beats investors' confidence. For this reason, the transmission of accurate and timely disclosed inside information to investors is intended to prevent monopolization and the use of privileged information that is unknown to everyone is prohibited in many markets around the world. In this study, the historical evaluation of insider trading with important cases beginning from the birth of stock markets is addressed. The regulations of insider trading is sorted in chronological order and referred to prosecuted cases. Moreover, EU regulations on insider trading is mentioned and the approach of new Capital Market Law No. 6362 which came into force on 2012 to insider trading is discussed. It is concluded that, the penal provisions on insider trading that can cause missappropriation must be clearly defined.

200-231

Authors: Alpaslan YAŞAR

There has been ongoing regulatory debates in the United States and European Union countries on whether audit partner rotation really improve the audit quality, showed that there has been continuing doubts on how mandatory rotation implemented. This situation point out that rotation policy choice of countries should be supported by empirical research. The aim of this study is to make a literature review on what extent of empirical evidence support the mandatory rotation decisions of countries. For this purpose, development of the mandatory rotation regulation in the United States, European Union countries and Turkey and the findings and limitations of empirical research has revealed. The presence of important limitations of the studies in the literature, indicate that there have been no enough empirical evidence that support the mandatory audit firm rotation or mandatory audit partner rotation decisions of countries.

255-270

Authors: Gencay KARAKAYA, Cengiz SEVİM

We face various challenges in time from the calculation of the tax charged on profits (only the income of the corporations required by the relevant standard) to the recognition. The main reason of these challenges is the emergence of two different concepts of profit over which the tax is to be calculated because of the incompatibilities between the Turkish Accounting Standards and the Tax Procedure Law. The first of these is the commercial profit calculated according to the principles which the relevant standard/standards has/have determined; the other one is the financial profit calculated according to the policies and principles in the tax law. If the differences between accounting profit and financial profit are temporary, it is reported as deferred taxes in the relevant period of balance sheet. TAS-IAS 12 Income Taxes Standard describes the differences in question. The differences in question emerge as deferred tax assets or deferred tax liabilities. The purpose of this article is to analyse TAS-IAS 12 Income Taxes Standard and is to explain the application of the standard in question in what manner that will be made. Therefore, with the help of an example of an application, TAS-IAS 12 Income Taxes Standard is compared with the current practice in Turkey.

292-306

Authors: Sylvester ERIABIE, Ben-Caleb EGBIDE

The main objective of the study is to examine whether accounting information is value relevant in both the food and beverage, and the conglomerate subsectors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The study also compared the value relevance of accounting information for both sectors. A random sample of seven companies was selected from a total population of thirteen companies listed in the Food and Beverage subsector of the NSE. The study also took a random sample of another seven companies in the conglomerate subsector. Data were gathered from these companies for the period 2005 to 2014. Using the Ohlson (1995) model and the multiple regression method, we found that market price per share (MPS) is positively, but insignificantly related to book value per share (BVPS) and earnings per share (EPS) in the conglomerate sub sector. On the other hand, for food and beverage sub sector, MPS is positively and significantly related to BVPS and EPS. Accounting information is more value relevant in the food and beverage subsector than the conglomerate subsector as shown by the adjusted R2 of 0.89 for Food and Beverage subsector and 0.15 for the conglomerate sub sector. We recommended that accounting rules should be more sector-specific, and monitoring should be taken more seriously in the conglomerate subsector to enhance value relevance of accounting information in NSE.