Pub Date : 2019-11-05DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-12-15
Roslina Abdul Aziz, A. Rahman, Ruzian Markom
Comprehensive compliance to Shariah principles ensure confidence among stakeholders and strong credentials for the banking institutions. The Shariah Governance Framework (SGF) was introduced by the BNM in 2010 to safeguard Islamic financial institutions’ Shariah compliancy. Non-compliancy to SGF will pose risks to the banks and cause instability in the financial industry. This study explores the implementation of the internal SGF in selected Islamic banks. Document reviews and interviews were conducted to analyse the SGF documentations and practices. The banks’ practices are compared to the Guidelines on the Governance of Shariah Committee (GGSC) 2005 and the SGF 2010. Roles of major Shariah committees were reviewed with regard to the banks’ internal SGF compliancy to the SGF 2010. The findings indicate that the Islamic banks are generally compliant to the SGF 2010 provisions. The banks’ implementation of major Shariah organs has facilitated regulators in monitoring and mitigating Shariah non-compliancy events or risks. The most challenging issue faced by the Shariah audit team is limited resources in terms of on-the job work experience or Shariah knowledge. Thus, it is essential for Islamic banks to enhance their internal SGF within the scope of the SGF 2010 and collaborate with training agencies or higher education-related parties in addressing shortage of skilled manpower.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-05DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-12-09
H. Nor, Intan Maiza Abd. Rahman
Prior studies have provided some inconclusive findings regarding the effect of independent directors (INEDs) on firm performance. Drawing insights from the theories of resource dependence (RD), human capital (HC), and social capital (SC), this research argues that the mere presence of INEDs (motivation) is insufficient but rather the appointed INEDs need to have sufficient HC and SC (ability) in the forms of knowledge, expertise, and connection to effectively perform their roles. This study extends prior research by investigating the effects of INEDs’ financial knowledge (as indicator of INEDs’ HC) and INEDs’ external directorship (as indicator of INEDs’ external SC) on firm performance. A total of 300 non-financial firms listed on Bursa Malaysia in the year 2013 were selected using stratified random sampling method. Results indicated that INEDs’ financial knowledge does not have any relationship with firm performance. In contrast, an inverted U-shaped relationship between INEDs’ external directorship and firm performance was found, hence reflecting a trade-off between SC gain through external directorship and busyness effect. The findings of this research suggest that there are potential costs and benefits associated with INEDs’ SC. The findings also support the call for limiting the number of directorship an INED can have.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-05DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-12-13
Salma Khalidah SA’ADON, A. Amir, Rozita Amiruddin
The study extends prior management control system knowledge by observing the significance of the information generated in facilitating innovation efforts which, in turn, improves the innovation performance of firms. The paper explores the role of company mission and vision statement, job scope description, and performance measurement system as sources of management control information to support firms’ innovation activity and to manage their performance in facing present market demands. Survey was administered to the Product Development Managers randomly selected from the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers Directory. Based on a total of 102 usable responses, evidence showed that firm’s value positively relates to firm’s innovation activities. The study discovers that diagnostic information is positively significant with incremental innovation, whereas interactive information is significantly associated with radical innovation. Evidently, both types of innovation enhance a firm’s innovation performance. Rather than assessing the immediate return of innovation efforts on firms’ financial performance, the study provides support showing both types of innovation do enhance firms’ innovation performance.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-12
Shubasini Sivapregasam, A. Selamat, N. A. Rahim, J. Muhammad
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) transition is a continuous process of change in leadership involving removal of existing CEO and replacement of new CEO. Ideally, CEO transition occurs based upon the CEO Succession Policy developed by the Board of Directors. The CEO succession plan and policy is important because it reduces the impact of a CEO's sudden removal on the firm. In recent time, there is an immense increase in CEO transition recorded among emerging economy, nonetheless, the issue has not been well addressed in the literature. Disclosure policy in Malaysia also views change of CEO as an important element that will have an impact on the firm value. To evaluate the CEO succession policy, this study investigates the effect of CEO transition announcement on the share price. This study adopts the event study method and employs two estimation models for expected return, which are Market Model (MM) and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). This study examines the simultaneous announcement, which indicates the adoption of succession policy, as well as the announcement of CEO appointment and CEO turnover. A total of 354 announcements of CEO transition from 170 firms listed on Bursa Malaysia, over the duration of ten years from 2007-2016 is observed. The result indicates that the firm’s share price generally reacts towards all types of CEO transition announcement, with a stronger reaction significantly observed through the simultaneous announcement. Further robustness check with regression analysis confirms that when the CEO transition announcement is simultaneous, it creates more value to the firm. In other words, the CEO succession policy, where proper CEO transition takes place, eliminates the uncertainty and risk, hence, giving a positive impact on firm value. This finding also contributes to the signalling theory literature, where anticipated event induces a positive reaction from investors, as reflected in the firm share price
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-07
T. Hakami, Mohd Mohid Rahmat
The main objective of the study is to examine the perceptions of employees of banks operating in Saudi Arabia on the effectiveness of fraud prevention. A total of 150 questionnaires are distributed among employees of 12 Saudi banks with a response rate of 53.3 %. These fraud prevention strategies are classified using Cressey’s fraud triangle which consists of pressure, rationalization and opportunity. The research engaged quantitative research method using questionnaire. The findings indicate that all strategies are perceived to be highly effective with strategies under the opportunity category turned out to be the most effective. However, when detailed analyses of the practices are compared across selected characteristics, various perceptions are revealed. Positive employee recognition, ethics training, imposing penalty, fraud auditing, and disciplinary action are perceived differently between male and female employees. Female employees perceive these fraud prevention policies and strategies as more effective than male employees. On the other hand, the differences in perception is found to be insignificant for working experience, qualifications, accounting experience, age group, job titles, and departments.
{"title":"Fraud Prevention Strategies: The Perception of Saudi Arabian Banks Employees","authors":"T. Hakami, Mohd Mohid Rahmat","doi":"10.17576/ajag-2019-11-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ajag-2019-11-07","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of the study is to examine the perceptions of employees of banks operating in Saudi Arabia on the effectiveness of fraud prevention. A total of 150 questionnaires are distributed among employees of 12 Saudi banks with a response rate of 53.3 %. These fraud prevention strategies are classified using Cressey’s fraud triangle which consists of pressure, rationalization and opportunity. The research engaged quantitative research method using questionnaire. The findings indicate that all strategies are perceived to be highly effective with strategies under the opportunity category turned out to be the most effective. However, when detailed analyses of the practices are compared across selected characteristics, various perceptions are revealed. Positive employee recognition, ethics training, imposing penalty, fraud auditing, and disciplinary action are perceived differently between male and female employees. Female employees perceive these fraud prevention policies and strategies as more effective than male employees. On the other hand, the differences in perception is found to be insignificant for working experience, qualifications, accounting experience, age group, job titles, and departments.","PeriodicalId":42796,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45947709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-01
Sellywati Mohd Faizal, Mohd Rizal Palil, Ruhanita Maelah, Rosiati Ramli
Various factors that have been identified by researchers in Malaysia which may influence tax compliance behavior for example tax complexity; compliance costs; penalties; and tax knowledge. Yet, it is still unable to provide a solution to minimize tax non-compliance. Thus, this research identifies other factors, if any and their effect on Malaysian tax compliance behavior. The factors are procedural justice, trust and power. As far as known, no study in Malaysia examines the effect of these factors on tax compliance in a single study. Studies conducted outside Malaysia have found that procedural justice has a significant and positive relationship with tax compliance. In addition, there are also studies which described that procedural justice has the relationship with trust and legitimate power. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the relationship between procedural justice and compliance with the existing of trust and power as mediator. Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to analyze the data that has been collected from 241 respondents. The findings suggest that procedural justice and trust have a positive relationship with tax compliance. Moreover, the bootstrapping approach found that trust could be a mediator in the relationship between procedural justice and tax compliance. In contrast, neither legitimate power nor coercive power could influence tax compliance and mediate the relationship between procedural justice and tax compliance
{"title":"The Mediating Effect of Power and Trust in the Relationship Between Procedural Justice and Tax Compliance","authors":"Sellywati Mohd Faizal, Mohd Rizal Palil, Ruhanita Maelah, Rosiati Ramli","doi":"10.17576/ajag-2019-11-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ajag-2019-11-01","url":null,"abstract":"Various factors that have been identified by researchers in Malaysia which may influence tax compliance behavior for example tax complexity; compliance costs; penalties; and tax knowledge. Yet, it is still unable to provide a solution to minimize tax non-compliance. Thus, this research identifies other factors, if any and their effect on Malaysian tax compliance behavior. The factors are procedural justice, trust and power. As far as known, no study in Malaysia examines the effect of these factors on tax compliance in a single study. Studies conducted outside Malaysia have found that procedural justice has a significant and positive relationship with tax compliance. In addition, there are also studies which described that procedural justice has the relationship with trust and legitimate power. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the relationship between procedural justice and compliance with the existing of trust and power as mediator. Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to analyze the data that has been collected from 241 respondents. The findings suggest that procedural justice and trust have a positive relationship with tax compliance. Moreover, the bootstrapping approach found that trust could be a mediator in the relationship between procedural justice and tax compliance. In contrast, neither legitimate power nor coercive power could influence tax compliance and mediate the relationship between procedural justice and tax compliance","PeriodicalId":42796,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47253208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-05
Mohamat Sabri Hassan, Marsita Mustafa, M. Rahman
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between disclosure of non-financial human capital information (HCD) and share price of the top 100 companies listed on Bursa Malaysia from financial years 2010 to 2013. Human capital (HC) is considered a valuable asset in a knowledge-based economy. The knowledge and skills possessed by individuals are regarded as a key source of competitive advantage and value creator to companies. Prior research acknowledges the importance of HC information to investors, who may have to rely on disclosures in annual reports when evaluating a company’s future direction, potential, value and prospects. However, companies only disclose limited information on this ‘asset’. In this study, HCD is viewed from the perspective of signalling and efficient capital market theories. Following previous studies, we incorporate HC information and its two components, namely, HC information related to directors and employees, into the Ohlson model. Our study reveals an increasing trend of HCD, and the disclosure is value relevant. Further analysis of the HC information component reveals that both HC information (HC related to directors and employees) are value relevant. These findings are in line with the argument that Malaysian financial analysts and fund managers regard information related to the company’s management and key corporate decision makers as important in investment decision making. The findings of this study are relevant to accounting standard setters in determining the types of HC that should be disclosed in the annual reports because this information can create value for companies. Managers should also pay attention to HC information because such information is value relevant to stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-04
S. Hussin, N. Saleh, Ahnaf Ali Al-smady
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the auditor demographic factors that can influence the level of skepticism dimensions in Jordan. One important contribution is it validates the skepticism dimensions in Jordan. Different from the majority prior studies on auditor skepticism, this study investigates auditors’ demographical factors that influence the level of skepticism dimensions. This study uses a survey approach on auditors in Jordan and received one hundred and twelve responses. Regression analysis was used to find relationships between demographic factors and skepticism dimensions. The result confirms that those who have experience with fraud is positively related to skepticism dimensions. The result could be driven by specific Jordanian context, such as business environment, business culture and political issues. Furthermore, the study is limited to Jordanian context. We cannot confirm the ineffectiveness of training in improving the dimensions of auditor skepticism because examination on training materials is not made and beyond the scope of this study.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-02
Mohammad Rajon Meah
The corporate governance factors are highly focused on the era of universal financial crisis and economic downturn led by risks mostly from weak capital structure. Corporate governance helps to assess insights about capital structure. Therefore, the present study intends to examine the efficiency of corporate governance on firm’s capital structure by using the data from DSE listed 40 manufacturing firms covering the period of 2013-2017. The empirical results from Pooled OLS regressions intimate that larger board size, larger audit committee size and higher percentage of foreign ownership help a firm to be less levered but higher percentage of director ownership and audit committee independence put the firms to be more levered thus to be more risky. The non-monitoring role of female directors on board is also documented in the results. The study recommends to limit the shares held by the directors to a certain level and to reassess the role of female directors and independent audit committee members in the context of Bangladesh along with active enforcement.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.17576/ajag-2019-11-11
Helmy Mohd Daud, Rosiati Ramli, Romlah Jaffar, Mohd Mohid Rahmat
Siasatan cukai adalah tindakan penguatkuasaan bagi mengutip cukai kebelakangan daripada aktiviti pengelakan dan pelarian cukai. Oleh itu penyelesaian sesuatu kes siasatan cukai amat penting dalam memastikan hasil cukai sebenar yang sepatutnya dikutip. Bagaimanapun, kajian lepas mendapati majoriti kes siasatan cukai melibatkan tempoh penyelesaian yang lebih lama daripada yang disarankan dan mengakibatkan kelewatan dalam kutipan cukai kebelakangan. Justeru kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti faktor-faktor yang menyumbang kepada tempoh penyelesaian kes siasatan cukai. Kajian ini telah memilih untuk menemubual empat pegawai atasan Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (LHDNM) menggunakan kaedah temu bual separa struktur bagi mendapat penjelasan yang baik. Hasil menunjukkan empat faktor yang mempengaruhi tempoh penyelesian kes siasatan cukai iaitu kecekapan pegawai LHDNM, strategi penguatkuasaan, penalti cukai, dan teknik siasatan. Hasil kajian juga mendapati bahawa faktor undang-undang cukai tidak mempengaruhi tempoh penyelesaian kes siasatan cukai. Berdasarkan pemerhatian kajian lepas, kajian ini merupakan yang pertama di Malaysia yang menggunakan responden dari kalangan pembuat dasar dan polisi siasatan cukai. Hasil kajian ini dapat membantu orang ramai khususnya pembayar cukai untuk memahami mengapa siasatan cukai mengambil masa yang lama untuk diselesaikan.
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