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    The Impact of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management in Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Karunarathne, J.P.J.H.; Rathwatta, G.M.H.P.K.
    Earning Management is the very important indicator to any organization as some managers manipulate earnings and the financial statements do not present according to the true and fair value. This Study objective is to analysis the relationship between corporate governance and earning management in listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. C.E.O Duality (CD), Board Independence (BDIN), Board Members with Financial Expertise (BDFX), Number of Board Meeting (BDMEET), Board Size (BDSIZE) used as the Main indicator of Corporate governance and Firm Size (SIZE) and Return on Asset (ROA) used as control variables. Then, Discretionary Accrual (DA) is applied as the Earning Management indicator. The study used secondary data of all Manufacturing Company from 2013 to 2017. Data were analyzed using regression analysis and E-Views packages. The findings of the study showed that CEO duality and board size are negatively and insignificantly associated with earnings management. That depict firms which have two separate positions for Chief Executive Officer and Chairman are more effective in reducing earning management than firms which do not. Also, firms with large number of directors have lessor amount of earnings management than firms with small board size
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    The Impact of Internal Corporate Governance on Convergence of IFRS: Evidence from Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Harshana, R.D.U.; Perera, H.A.P.L.
    The convergence of International Accounting Standards (IAS) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is an important debate among standards setters, policy makers, regulators, professional bodies and companies worldwide. The objective of this research is to examine the impact of internal corporate governance on convergence of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and to measure the impact of individual corporate governance factors to the convergence of IFRS. Changes of equity during the year were used as the dependent variable of the model and no of financial and non-financial variables were used as independent variables. Financial and non-financial data were collected from annual reports published by the listed manufacturing companies in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) during the period of 2009 to 2015. This six (6) year period was divided into two categories as before and after convergence of IFRS. All the manufacturing sector companies were selected as the sample of the research. Due to the unavailability of data, there were 29 companies used for the final analysis. Panel data regression was used to analyze data using E-views software. The results of the study revealed that, effective internal corporate governance mechanism helps companies more aligned with convergence of local accounting standards to IFRS and thereby provide high quality financial information to users of the information
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    Impact of Corporate Governance on Banking Performances
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Nishshanka, N.A.S.S.S.; Rathwatta, G.M.H.P.K.
    Corporate governance is considered to have significant implications for the growth prospects of an economy. Good corporate governance practices are regarded as important in reducing risk for investors, attracting investment capital and improving the performance of companies. However, the way in which corporate governance is organized differs between countries, depending on their economic, political and social contexts. The main objectives of this study are to find out the relationship between corporate governance and banking performance and also find out the impact of corporate governance on banking performance. This study focused on four aspects of corporate governance namely; Board Size (BS), Board Diversity (BD), Outside Directors Percentage (OSDP), Board Meeting Frequency (MF) & Audit Committee Meeting Frequency (AM). Banking performance has been measured through Return on Assets (ROA). The study used secondary data of 11 commercial banks covering the period of 2008 to 2017. Data were analysed using regression analysis and E-Views packages. The empirical results of the present study indicate that there is positive relationship between Outside Directors Percentage (OSDP), Board Meeting Frequency (MF), Board Size (BS), and Audit Committee Meeting Frequency (AM) with Return on Assets (ROA). Further Board Diversity (BD) has a negative impact on Return on Assets (ROA). This study will be benefited to all investors other than the bank sector investors.
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    The Impact of Board Characteristics on Sustainability Reporting: Empirical Evidence from Sri Lankan Firms
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dimuthumali, H.G.K.S.; Rajapakshe, R.M.D.A.P.
    At the present scenario, Sustainability Reporting plays vital role in financial reporting as it is crucially impact on the growth and continuous development of a firm in certain and equity market. There are several factors influenced on sustainability reporting. Among them board characteristics impact more as disclosure decisions are one of the primary control functions of the board. The purpose of the research is to explore the role played by the board of directors in corporate sustainability reporting among the listed companies in Sri Lanka. Research problem is based on the board characteristics and it is impact on the detailed sustainability reporting. Data collected from the sample of 60 Sri Lankan listed companies over a period of four years (2014-2017), representing practically four business sectors which represent the highest number of companies under sector classification of CSE in 2017. Board size (BS), Board independency (BIND), Dual leadership (DL), Board with female directors (BFD), Board ethnicity (BE) and Impact of ownership structure (OS) were used as the board characteristics. Binary logistic regression is the method which used to analyze the research data. The results reveals that firms which follow a detailed sustainability reporting have larger boards, more female directors and higher portion of independent directors. This study also found that dual leadership, board ethnicity and board ownership have no influenced on detailed sustainability reporting. This study contributes to provide value addition into the existing literature on this subject by providing sufficient evidences to fill up the gap in the existing literature
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    The Use of Corporate Governance in Predicting Corporate Failure of Listed Companies in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Randika, R.W.M.K.M.; Wijekoon, W.M.H.N.
    The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance variables and corporate failure of listed companies in Sri Lanka. In modern business world sudden failure of corporation became one of most discussed topics and it is a common problem of both developing and developed economies. It is claimed that corporations are failed due to poor corporate governance systems. An analysis of literature revealed that only few studies were carried out on corporate failure prediction in Sri Lanka and such studies were based solely on financial ratios. Therefore, this study addresses the empirical gap exists in the local context. The study used logistic regression analysis to a data set of 58 matched pairs of failed and non-failed companies listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange in Sri Lanka over the period 2008 to 2017. Seven corporate governance variables were used for prediction of corporate failure such as board size, CEO duality, Outside directors, Audit opinion, Presence of audit committee, director’s remuneration, foreign ownership. The results of the study revealed that CEO Duality alone has significant positive impact to the failure of the corporations in the first year before failure and two years before failure. In three years before the failure both CEO duality and outside directors has significantly impact to the prediction of corporate failure. Therefore, results of this study can assist investors, managers, shareholders, financial institutions, auditors and regulatory agents in Sri Lanka to forecast corporate failure of listed companies