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Scandals are often the ‘tip of the iceberg’ whereby they represent ‘visible catastrophic failures’. The dismissal of Arthur Andersen as one of Big 5 international accounting firms and the collapsed of Enron Corporation in late 2001 still making a wave in corporate world. Under a cloud of scandal and shame, the respected accounting firm who was an auditor of publicly traded companies and once stood for trust and accountability for 90 years just destroyed in a split second. The spiralled dow...

Dividend policy is indeed one of the most controversial issues in an organization.Dividend payment and company’s earnings have become one of the most concerningsubjects to shareholders in company. The way on how company decided to spend theirnet profit, either by declaring dividend distribution or reinvestment for future capitalgains, both will have direct effect on shareholders’ wealth. This study aims to examinethe impact of dividend policy on shareholders’ wealth in ...

A developing Asian like Malaysia must be able to successfully transform from just being an input-driven to a knowledge-driven economy that emphases more on exploiting human expertise and knowledge. There is inadequate research in Malaysia that studies on the association of governance structure and intellectual capital disclosure. There is also an urgent need for growth of intellectual capital, for better understanding of the current and potential role of the intellectual capital to meet th...

Dividend topic has always gain attention by a lot of researchers and it has been seen as the most favourite topic to be studied in terms of corporate finance. Despite of a lot of research being done, there are still no general consensus on what determine the dividend policy and dividend payout as the findings are varied among the researchers. The purpose of this study is to determine the determinants of dividend payout in Malaysian manufacturing companies specifically in industrial product...

The study examines four board characteristics associated with board monitoring quality in Malaysia Public Listed Companies. The four board characteristics are board size, board independence, representation of women director and non-duality structure and board monitoring quality is been measured by reduction of occurrence of negative events which in form of enforcement actions issued by Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia towards companies that violate laws and regulations. This paper ...