This study explores the impact of liquidity risk on Bank performance through a comparative study between conventional and Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). Bank Size, Capital adequacy ratio, liquidity Gap and Return on Assets are used as independent variables and the Bank Age, Inflation Rate and Growth Rate of Domestic product are used as macro-economic variables and the dependent variable is liquidity risk. The methodological choice is the generalized method of moments (GMM). We used a sample of 10 Islamic banks and 25 conventional banks in the MENA region during the period of 2006-2018. The results show various impacts of these variables on liquidity risk in both banks. We also find that the rise in CAR in Islamic banks and conventional banks does not influence liquidity risk. The logical explanations are that the bank could allocate funds to improve credit and fixed assets.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of experience quality, perceived value and happiness on behavioral intention. The study also examines the mediating role of perceived value and happiness on the effect of experience quality on behavioral intention. The samples of the study were 220 Indonesian tourists who have traveled to Dodola island or those who are currently travelling in Dodola Island Destination. This study used purposive sampling techniques using the following criteria: (1) have traveled to Dodola Island; (2). are currently travelling in Dodola Island; (3). Have a minimum age of 18 years old. The data analysis technique used was Partial Least square (PLS) with SmartPLS 3.0. The results showed that the experience quality has a positive and significant effect on behavioral intention, perceived value and happiness. Then the perception of value and happiness had a positive and significant effect on intention to behave. The results of this study also indicate that the perception of value and happiness can act as a partial mediation of the influence of the experience quality on behavioral intention.

This study aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over accounting conservatism through examining whether the corporate strategy can provide a logical justification for the conservatism, and whether this justification is consistent with or contradicts the contractual justification. In this context, the study examines the impact of corporate strategy on the level of conservatism in financial statements, and the impact of the level of conservatism on corporate investment level. Using data from a sample of non-financial Saudi listed companies, the results show that prospector companies are more likely to provide more conservative financial statements, and the level of conservatism influences investment level. The results also show that the integration between corporate strategy and the level of conservatism influence the level of investment. These results suggest that accounting conservatism can be explained in the context of both business strategy and contractual benefits. Also, the results imply that adopting business strategy could influence the financial reporting process.

This study aimed to examine the determinants of lending interest rates of 13 Jordanian commercial banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for the period 2011-2018. The factors include liquidity, profitability (ROA), bank size, operating cost ratio, deposit interest rate and inflation rate. The fixed effects model was performed as suggested by Hausman test. The results of the fixed effects model show that ROA and bank size had negative significant impacts on lending interest rates. Liquidity had a negative insignificant impact. The results also show that deposit interest rate and inflation had a positive significant impact on lending interest rate of Jordanian commercial banks. Operating cost ratio also had a positive insignificant impact. Thus, the results indicate that ROA, bank size, deposit interest rate and inflation were good determinants of the lending interest rates of Jordanian listed commercial banks. The study suggests that banks should use profitability and the size of the bank as tools to reduce the lending interest rate, as it is one of the factors that can cause a further decrease in the lending interest rates.

PSAK 69 Agriculture regulates the accounting treatment of agricultural activities in Indonesia. The measurement of biological assets is the most important part of the arrangement of PSAK 69. PSAK 69 deals with biological assets measured at fair value less costs to sell at the beginning and end of the reporting period. Characteristics of growing biological assets will have an impact on the growth in fair value of assets, so there will be differences in fair value at the beginning and end of the financial reporting period. The difference in fair value of biological assets, whether realized or not, is recognized as gain in the current period. This will have an impact on the quality of the company's earnings. This study aims to examine differences in earnings quality before and after the implementation of PSAK 69 in agricultural sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The research was conducted on 14 agricultural companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2016-2019 observation period. Earnings quality is measured by the earnings response coefficient. Earnings response coefficients are estimated using the firm specific coefficient model (FSCM) and pooled cross-sectional regression model (CSRM) methods. This study measures the quality of earnings before and after the application of PSAK 69. The quality of earnings before and after the application of PSAK 69 is tested by a paired two-sample t-test. The results of this study found no difference in earnings quality before and after the application of PSAK 69.

The purposes of this research were to understand the profitability performance and its influencing factors based on DuPont Analysis and the effect toward the value of the firm. As a causality research, the sample data involved were 20 non-banking and finance companies as listed on LQ-45 of Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) years of 2014-2018, which could be classified into two types of industry; manufacture and non-manufacture sectors. The research’s quantitative design as a systematic approach of the relation among the variables focusing on the hypothesis testing done by data analysis tools using GLS Regression test of panel data. Profitability determinants of net profit margin, total assets turnover and financial leverage multiplier showed the result of positive and significant effect toward ROE (return on equity), while growth sales ratio showed the negative and significant effect. In terms of the relationship toward value of firm, the ROE and industry types were proven to have significant positive contributions. This implied that the management must be more efficient and effective in managing the company operational activities and minimizing the operational costs and other costs, both in the assets dan debt usage to have maximal product results, to increase sales, net income, profit rate and return of equity where they will affect the increasing of investors’ and the market’s trust toward the firms since the increasing of return on equity for the owners and the shareholders. The different characteristics, traits and features of the industry’s types resulted in the different use of strategies in managing the firms’ operational activities. These all affected the increasing value of the firm.

The use of an online accounting system is considered to be a major innovation in accounting in the application of the stages of the company's accounting cycle. The purpose of this study is to evaluate cloud-based accounting systems in terms of compliance with accounting standards, security systems using the Parkerian Hexad theory and the functions of each part of Accurate Online. The form of this research is qualitative and quantitative. The data collection method was carried out by distributing questionnaires and interviews to Accurate Online users. The sample of this research was obtained as many as 113 samples. The results of this study indicate that Accurate Online has passed all levels of technological readiness, and is on a scale of 9 in technological readiness, which has become a trusted cloud-based accounting information system that has proven to be successful in operating the technology, as well as in providing the benefits of ease of management. corporate financial transactions.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have significantly changed the audit process; nevertheless, the AI revolution opponents view this growth as a step-back as many auditors will fail to adapt to this new environment and will drop behind. Our descriptive study examines the perceived ease of use, usefulness, and contribution to the audit quality of different AI’s types. To address local audit firms concerns about their readiness to use AI systems in auditing processes and to advance auditing research, we examine whether perceived ease of use, usefulness, and contribution to audit quality vary by AI systems type (Assisted, Augmented, and Autonomous). An online questionnaire was used to collect data from 124 auditors representing local audit firms in Jordan. Our results indicate that auditors perceive Assisted and Augmented AI systems as ease of use in auditing while perceiving Autonomous AI systems as complicated to use. Besides, Auditors are underestimating Autonomous AI systems’ capabilities and perceived it as not useful for auditing. The results also reveal a significant difference between the perceived contribution to audit quality by the three AI systems types. This study contributes to the existing literature on AI and auditing by developing and testing a measure for AI systems’ perceived contribution to audit quality. This study also provides empirical evidence on how Jordan local firms auditors perceive AI use in auditing.

Liquidity refers to the paying ability of the business organization while profitability assesses the profit earning capacity of the business organization. The liquidity of the business organization can be bifurcated into two based on time i.e., short-term and long-term liquidity. The short-term liquidity reveals the operational efficiency while long-term liquidity refers to the financial capability to repay the long-term debts of the business organization. The short-term paying ability is the management of the working capital or efficient management of the current assets and current liabilities. The current assets and current liabilities are directly related to the revenue of the business and further affected by the profitability, indirectly. The long-term paying ability or financial health of the business organization is reflected by the debts and equity ratio. The energy sector of Saudi Arabia is a prominent sector and contributes to the economy progressively. The study is based on secondary data and reveals the long-term and short-term liquidity variations and the cohesiveness of long-term and short-term liquidity with the revenue and profitability of energy sector companies. The study reveals the significant variations in the short-term and long-term liquidity and cohesiveness between the revenue, profitability, and short-term and long-term liquidity of the energy sector companies.

Steel futures have the function of price discovery and hedging. Steel related enterprises can judge the hedging strategy through the direction of steel futures price volatility, and reasonably avoid the risk brought by price volatility. Therefore, it is particularly important to study steel futures price volatility and its influencing factors. Because steel futures in China have characteristics of peak and rear tail aggregation, the paper constructs Model of GARCH (1,1) to make positive analysis of futures price volatility and its influencing factors of deformed steel bars and hot rolled coils, and the following conclusions have been drawn: (1) The volume and open interest of deformed steel bars have very significant explanatory ability to futures price volatility of deformed steel bars; (2) The volume and open interest of hot rolled coils also have very significant explanatory ability to futures price volatility of hot rolled coils; (3) The sustainable capacity of the price volatility of deformed steel bars and hot rolled coils is relatively small; (4) Iron ore price have no obvious explanatory ability to futures price volatility. Finally, some managerial implications and suggestions are derived from the analysis of the proposed model.