This research was conducted for assessing the predictive ability of future cash flows from operating activities by using accounting earnings and cash flows information in the past. Data were collected from the firms listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) from 2009 to 2018, including the sample of 242 non-financial listed companies. Three statistical methods approaches were employed to address econometric issues and to improve the accuracy of the regression coefficients based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Random Effects Model (REM), and Fixed Effects Model (FEM). The findings showed that earnings and cash flows and aggregated accruals had remarkable ability to forecast future cash flows and the model of operating cash flows combined with aggregated accruals had the most effective prediction ability for companies listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange.

Current financial statements are a comprehensive description of the enterprise, which characterize not only their financial and property status, but also the risks and prospects that allows making a comprehensive picture of the market activities. The research paper deals with the study of the essence and the role of financial statements in the process of enterprise management. The objective of this research paper is to establish the necessary content and features of financial statements that would enable to fully meet the needs of managerial staff, while re-maining economical, understandable and sufficient in terms of the content. The authors, through the analysis of the works of recognized scholars, investigated the main approaches to the definition of financial statements, which could allow us to define it as a set of indicators, representing generalized accounting data in the form that fully meets the information needs of the users for the process of managing economic activities. In the process of studying the composition of financial statements, their types are identified, and as a result - their role in the management of the enterprise are determined. The authors present their own vision of the essence of high-quality accounting information and its main characteristics, which can serve as content guidelines when compiling descriptive, non-financial and text parts of financial statements. The proposed approach allows formulating financial statements from the point of view of presentation of our own business on the best side, and in compliance with the regulatory and legal principles and requirements.

This paper presents an empirical investigation on the perceptions of individual investors about the impact of accounting disclosures on their decision makings on the stock exchange market. The study uses some quantitative methods with survey questionnaires sent to investors participating in the Vietnam stock market. By using SPSS 22, the research develops a research model with 11 accounting information groups (factors) which are measured by 82 items. The results indicate that the income information significantly affected investors’ decisions on buying, selling and holding securities while the information on assets, the accounting principles and policies had little impact on individuals’ investment decisions. The voluntary disclosures, however, show more effects than mandatory disclosures on the investors' decision making.

This research is conducted for assessing the relationship between disclosure levels of environmental accounting information and financial performance. Data were collected from the firms listed in Vietnam from 2013 to 2017, including the firms disclosed and the ones did not disclose the environmental accounting information. The study uses two regression models to investigate the rela-tionship between environmental accounting information and return on assets. The results indicate that there was a close relationship between disclosure level of environmental accounting information and financial performance. In addition, there was a difference in terms of financial performance between the firms had not disclosed environmental accounting information and the ones disclosed the environmental accounting information.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of cloud computing (CC) and company size on accounting information quality. Data were collected using an online questionnaire which followed the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The research sample consisted of 178 respondents from accountants and audit offices in the Emirate of Riyadh. The study adopted a Smart PLS in hypothesis testing. The study's results indicated just a positive relationship between perceived benefit and quality of accounting Information. In addition, there was a clear influence of company size on the relationship between CC and accounting information quality.

Today, the stock market has increasingly proven its important role and become a focus of many participants with different purposes and positions. In the stock market, the information is like a blood vessel and energy source which feed the market especially financial information. The securities market of a country that wants to be active and attracts many investors, the transparency of information is considered as an important factor. This paper studies the extent of factors influencing the disclosure in the financial statement of listed food industry companies on the Vietnam’s stock market. Based on the information of 60 companies that belong to food industry listed on the Vietnam’s stock market, the disclosure indexes and regression model are employed to measure the disclosure by SPSS 22.0. The results demonstrate that, the extent of disclosure is significantly influenced by efficient use of assets, liquidity, independent audit, size, the percentage of board members not participating in management and the number of board members.

This research is conducted for assessing the relationship between the level of environmental financial accounting practices (EFAP) and financial performance (FP) of listed firms. Data were collected from listed firms on Vietnam Stock Exchange for the period from 2013 to 2017, including the firms disclosed and not disclose EFAP. Ordinary least square (OLS), fixed effect model (FEM), and random effect model were employed for processing the data. The results reveal that there is a close relationship between the EFAP and financial performance. In addition, there is a difference in financial performance between the group of firms disclosed and not disclosed EFAP. Based on the findings, some recommendations are given for motivating EFAP in the listed firms for improving financial performance.