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dc.contributor.authorAlzarouni, Abdulkareem
dc.contributor.authorAljifri, Khaled
dc.contributor.authorNg, Chew
dc.contributor.authorTahir, Mohammad
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:10:24Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:10:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-06-11T22:44:30Z
dc.identifier.issn1944592X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42475
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of financial reports to users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an attempt to find out whether current practices satisfy users' needs of information and the extent to which these needs have been satisfied by the current disclosure practices of UAE companies. A survey questionnaire was used to explore whether the financial reports published by UAE firms were relevant to the needs of their users and to identify the disclosure items they perceived as important. Of the 512 questionnaires distributed to major external users of financial reports, 404 were returned. The results indicate that users in the UAE consider corporate annual reports to be the most important source of information. However, the level of corporate financial disclosure in the UAE does not provide sufficient information to the users. In fact, it meets only 61% of the needs reported by external users of financial reports. The users also nominated several areas of concerns, including delays in the availability of annual reports, the lack of creditability of financial information, and the non-accessibility of financial reports.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent504581 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThe Institute for Business and Finance Research
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.theibfr.com/accounting-taxation-past-issues/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom17
dc.relation.ispartofpageto37
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAccounting & Taxation
dc.relation.ispartofvolume3
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchFinancial Accounting
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAccounting, Auditing and Accountability
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode150103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1501
dc.titleThe Usefulness of Corporate Financial Reports: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorTahir, Mohammad I.
gro.griffith.authorNg, Chew C.


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