Search for dissertations about: "financial accounting"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 85 swedish dissertations containing the words financial accounting.
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6. Group Accounting Across Borders
Abstract : Over the last twenty years, accounting diversity between countries has been an important issue in international accounting research. A driving force has been the growth of multinational companies across borders. The development has created new challenges in consolidating financial statements across borders to a common group accounting report. READ MORE
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7. The Pursuit of Relevance : Studies on the Relationships between Accounting and Users
Abstract : Relevance has become one of the key priorities for accounting policy, and implies that accounting should have an impact on the economic decision-making of accounting users. Despite the increased importance given to users, however, little is known concerning the properties of such relevance in practice. READ MORE
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8. Essays on systemic risk and financial market volatility
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four independent research papers. All papers are empirical and cover the area of financial market risk, with a particular focus on systemic risk and volatility in financial markets. READ MORE
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9. Institutional Logics and Accounting Professionals : The case of K2 and K3
Abstract : Accounting firms have long been considered a ‘black box’ in the literature, but over the last two decades or so, a growing body of literature has emerged which points to how the accounting profession may be seen as a profession in transformation, one in which the underlying logic of their work has gone from emphasizing professional values to one in which commercial values constitute the main rules of the game.This thesis draws upon and add to this literature as it directs attention to how co-existing and potentially conflicting institutional logics enable and constrain accounting professionals, in practice and over time. READ MORE
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10. On the Importance of Accounting Information for Stock Market Efficiency
Abstract : This thesis contributes to the discussion on the importance of accounting information for stock market efficiency. As any analysis of market efficiency depends on the use of adequate risk proxies, the thesis first investigates the ability of commonly used risk factors to explain the cross-sectional variation of Swedish stock returns. READ MORE
