ARI Co-Authorship Workshop With Researchers from Universitas Indonesia

Researchers from the Accounting Research Institute (ARI HICoE) of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia and the Faculty of Economics and Business of University of Indonesia (UI) successfully conducted a one-day co-authorship workshop at the UI campus in Depok, which is about 25 kilometers from Jakarta city centre.  Role of Market Orientation in Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions; the case of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM); (2)   Performance Measurement, Accountability and Performance of Malaysian Local Authorities; (3)   Implementation of Accrual Accounting for Better Governance: Perspectives of Malaysian Public Sector Accountants; (4)  Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance: The Relevance of Audit Committee Characteristics in Monitoring Financial Performance of Public Listed Companies; (5) The Synergistic Outcome of Internal Capabilities and External Pressure on Environmental Performance: Evidence from ISO 14001 Companies; (6)  Relationships of Directors and Government Ownership on Voluntary Risk Disclosures: The Case of Shariah Compliant Companies in Malaysia;  (7)  Relationships of Directors and Government Ownership on Voluntary Risk Disclosures: The Case of Shariah Compliant Companies in Malaysia; (8)  Monitoring Firm Opportunistic Behavior: Evidence of Ownership Structure and Real Earnings Management among Distressed Firms;  (9)  Quality of Public Sector Financial Information: Malaysia and Indonesian Approaches in New Accrual Accounting Framework. 

The co-authorship program is part of an international collaboration between the two institutions.  Basically, the main aims of the workshop is firstly to match researchers from the two universities for the purpose of publishing research papers in similar specialisation.  Secondly through the workshop, the researchers further refine the papers and identify possible SCOPUS journals to publish their research output.  For today's event, ARI researchers contributed nine research papers to the workshop.  It has also been agreed that another co-authorship workshop will be organised in UiTM sometimes in November 2016: (1)