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The corporate scandal that leads to the collapsed of several companies in Malaysia had damaged the investor and shareholders’ confidence towards the reliability of the financial reporting. In this global business environment, the internal audit function is responsible to give the assertion to the management in concerning the organisation’s financial, operational and compliance activities to enhance effectiveness, viability, and management performance. High-quality of corporate governance o...

Nowadays life of leaders is more severe inside and outside of  the organization. Despite the enormous social progress of leadership features in recent development years, there are barriers that still exist related leadership style practices and these have lead the unease issues involving unethical leaders and business fraud that transpired voluptuous scandals ever recorded in history of companies' failures. Akin with the performance soaring organization, ethics practiced within its im...

Globalization has led the firms to become more aggressive and option for the transactions of M&As in order to fight with the competitive battle. The deals is said to perform a vital role in corporate governance as it enable the firms to achieve the varied objectives and financial strategies. Indeed, one of the most fundamental convictions of the company is the obligation to create and maximize the shareholders’ wealth. Nevertheless, debate on whether the shareholders of the acquiring f...

Risk are impossible to be avoided and eliminated and without risk management, firmsmay be threatened in many ways. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has emergedfrom the “silo” approach as portfolio for firms in managing risks. The significantgrowth of ERM implementation among Malaysian Public Listed Companies across theyear questioned how does the implementation provide benefit to the companyespecially in measuring its performance. Despite the rising literature and studi...

The hot corporate scandals and corruption also shows most company over-focusing on financial results and forget about other aspects of the business. The global outcry has been fervent with numerous high-profile environmental, health and safety corporate disasters in various developing countries. Plus, society today has growing essential for the business and company to be socially conscious therefore CSR and CSR disclosure is assumed to be corporate necessity. However, the board of director...