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A Movement Towards the Accrual Based IPSAS Implementation in Developing Countries: Evidence from Jordan

  • SHEHADEH, Esam
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.389-397
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    • 2022
  • As the Jordanian government is in the process of implementing accrual-based IPSAS, this study aims to provide academics' perspectives on the effective implementation of accrual-based IPSAS in Jordan to authorities and regulators. The findings of a survey of 124 accounting professors at Jordanian institutions reveal that adopting accrual-based IPSAS will aid in presenting the realistic financial status of governmental bodies, with various advantages to adopting accrual-based IPSAS (e.g., enhance assets and liabilities management, decision-making process, transparency, expenditures management). On the other side, we discovered that change is met with reluctance because the majority of public-sector accountants are untrained and unqualified to apply the accrual-based IPSAS. Another main challenge is the cost of implementing the accrual-based IPSAS in the Jordanian public sector is very high. To address these issues, employees should be motivated by providing suitable training programs, reward systems, and top management support and commitment to a successful transition. Finally, we suggested that Jordanian governments commit to using IPSAS in the public sector to increase residents' socioeconomic advantages. Public sectors should implement IPSASs for improved management, transparency in financial reporting, accountability, and regulatory and supervisory agencies.

A Case Study of Digital Transformation: Focusing on the Financial Sector in South Korea and Overseas

  • Eunchan Kim;Minjae Kim;Yeunwoong Kyung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.537-563
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    • 2022
  • This study investigates the adoption and application of digital transformation in the financial sector and analyzes the process and outcomes of digitization and digitalization in the field of the finance industry of South Korea and overseas, in order to seek both managerial and strategic implications for successful implementation of digital transformation in the future. The findings show that, for successful digital transformation, it is necessary to maximize active and systematic use of advanced online and digital technologies that form the basis of business and create an open, horizontal organizational culture and communication system to equally share and distribute advanced technologies and competencies through the entire organization. Furthermore, this study also discovers the legitimacy to concentrate the organizational competencies and know-how in providing technical training for members, expanding customer experience, and improving customer satisfaction services to contribute to improving the quality of life for members of the organization and creating and improving social and public infrastructures, instead of using digital transformation only to improve productivity of organizations or firms. As such, it is necessary to concentrate corporate competencies in establishing and supplying digital transformation that is not just human-centered but also has productivity, innovativeness, and reliability at the same time.

Research on financial service innovation strategy through service science: focusing KOTEC case (서비스사이언스를 통한 금융서비스혁신 전략 연구: 기술보증기금 사례를 중심으로)

  • Hong, Jae-Keun;Chung, Sun-Yang
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.184-205
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    • 2010
  • The service industry is drawing economic growth, and the financial service sector among service industry takes major share. So it is needed to increase the productivity and efficiency through the service innovation of making a good process, standardization, automation. But contrary to manufacturing industry, the difficulty to measure the characteristic of productivity, quality and innovation in service sector requires more scientific and systematic method for service innovation. This paper will search for financial service innovation strategy with service science by the case review of KOTEC's technology rating system. The case may infer that strategic technology management capability along with customized financial service infrastructure is important.

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Chinese Corporate Leverage Determinants

  • Ferrarini, Benno;Hinojales, Marthe;Scaramozzino, Pasquale
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.5-18
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    • 2017
  • Total debt in the People's Republic of China surged to nearly 290% as a ratio to GDP by the second quarter of 2016, mostly on account of non-financial corporate debt. The outpouring of credit to stem the impact of the global financial crisis accentuated industrial overcapacity in traditional sectors, such as steel, cement, and energy, while feeding asset bubbles in the property, equity and bond markets. At the Chinese corporate level, this has translated into weakened fundamentals and a fall in industrial profits, particularly of SOEs. As debtors struggle to service interest payments, non-performing loans (NPLs) have been on the rise. This paper assesses the financial fragility of the Chinese economy by looking at risk factors in the non-financial sector. We apply quantile regressions to a dataset containing all Chinese listed companies in Standard & Poor's IQ Capital database. We find higher sensitivity over time of corporate leverage to some of its key determinants, particularly for firms at the upper margin of the distribution. In particular, profitability increasingly acts as a curb on corporate leverage. At a time of falling profitability across the Chinese non-financial corporate sector, this eases the brake on leverage and may contribute to its continuing increase.

The Relationship Between Financial Literacy and Public Awareness on Combating the Threat of Cybercrime in Malaysia

  • ISA, Mohd Yaziz Bin Mohd;IBRAHIM, Wan Nora Binti Wan;MOHAMED, Zulkifflee
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: Cyber criminals have affected various markets and the banking system has encountered various kinds of cyberattacks. The purpose of this study is to analyze cybercrime that is an emerging threat and investigate the significant contribution of financial literacy and public awareness on cybercrimes. To understand the security issues and the need for corrective steps, the techniques and strategies used by cyber fraudsters in obtaining unauthorized access and use the financial information for purpose of fraud need to be understood. Research design, data and methodology: A sample of 123 banks employees from 12 commercial banks in Malaysia was surveyed. This study differs from previous studies as it surveyed the employees' awareness, and this approach fills in the gap in existing literature. Results: The financial literacy and public awareness have positive impact on organizational performance effectiveness to combat threat of cybercrime. Some recommendations are also proposed from research findings, for banking industry and government regulations. Conclusion: The present study focuses on banking sector so its findings cannot be generalized to other sectors. Linking these topics has created a new study in combating threat of cybercrimes generally, and specifically in Malaysia. The present study enhances the understanding of customers' role to combat the impact of cybercrimes on performances of banking industry.

Needs Analysis of Farming Practice to Strengthen the Competence of Farm Successors (영농승계자 역량강화를 위한 영농실습 요구도 분석)

  • Um, Ji-Bum
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.159-171
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to examine the needs analysis for agricultural management capabilities and farming practices that were emphasized by focusing to the inflow of farmers and the importance of the smooth succession. Data were collected from 134 farm successors. The Borich demand and the Locus for Focus model were hired for the study. Result were as follows. The competency group that the farm successors showed a high educational needs for was financial management. As for the detailed competencies that farm successors showed high educational needs for, based on Borich demand and the Locus for Focus model, the six detailed competencies of financial measures, financial analysis, financial management, sales planning, machine operation, and pest management were common and were derived as priorities. As for the direction of farming practice education for farm successors, based on these analysis results, education on machinery operation in the production sector should be expanded, and the management sector, more systematic and diverse education should be prepared to strengthen financial management capabilities.

Integrated Authentication Protocol of Financial Sector that Modified OAuth2.0 (OAuth2.0을 변형한 금융권 통합인증 프로토콜)

  • Jung, Kyu-Won;Shin, Hye-seong;Park, Jong Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.373-381
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    • 2017
  • Currently, various types of user authentication methods based on public certificates are used in domestic financial transactions. Such an authorized certificate method has a problem that a different security module must be installed every time a user connects an individual financial company to a web server. Also, the financial company relying on this authentication method has a problem that a new security module should be additionally installed for each financial institution whenever a next generation authentication method such as biometric authentication is newly introduced. In order to solve these problems, we propose an integrated authentication system that handles user authentication on behalf of each financial institution in financial transactions, and proposes an integrated authentication protocol that handles secure user authentication between user and financial company web server. The new authentication protocol is a modified version of OAuth2.0 that increases security and efficiency. It is characterized by performing a challenge-response protocol with a pre-shared secret key between the authentication server and the financial company web server. This gives users a convenient and secure Single Sign-On (SSO) effect.

Analysis on international financial biometric adoption cases and propose a scheme for korean financial telebiometrics (한국형 금융 바이오 인식 기술 도입을 위한 분석 및 방안연구)

  • Shin, Yong-Nyuo;Chun, Myung Geun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.665-672
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we analyze the international financial biometric adoption cases in smart phones and ATMs and propose a scheme for Korean financial telebiometrics. Regional privacy issues, financial services environment, according to the differences in the direction of government policy introducing biometric aspects were appearing differently. In Korea, due to changes in fin-tech vitalization and outstanding convenience mobile oriented service to the regulatory environment, the introduction of biometric technology is the point that is being actively discussed. In this paper, we propose a scheme for the Korean banking financial sector through the introduction of biometric technology adoption case analysis of each country. Thus, this paper is intended to help that the financial sector makes a precise decision when it is establishes a policy of biometric technology application for electronic financial services.

A Critical Review on Data Localization in the Financial Cloud (금융 클라우드의 데이터 국지화에 대한 비판적 고찰)

  • Jang, Woo-Kyung;Kim, In-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.1191-1204
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    • 2019
  • In January 2019, the government revised the regulation on electronic financial supervision to revitalize the use of cloud in the financial sector. However, as cloud policies and regulations cloud undermine financial firms' autonomous security activities or restrict some of the people's basic rights, there has been little movement in the financial sector to use important information as the cloud. In addition, the data localization policy, which requires important information to be kept only in Korea, is a representative regulation that prevents the revitalization of cloud use, which also creates discrimination problems for overseas operators. Therefore, policy and regulatory improvements are needed to enable the cloud to provide a foundation for digital financial innovation through data. This study looked into the current status of cloud policies for domestic and foreign financial companies and analyzed policies and regulations for domestic financial companies. Through these efforts, the government aims to draw up limitations and problems in cloud policies for domestic financial companies and propose policy alternatives, such as measures to improve regulations on localizing data for financial companies to revitalize their use of cloud.

Association of Financial Distress and Predicted Bankruptcy: The Case of Pakistani Banking Sector

  • ULLAH, Hafeez;WANG, Zhuquan;ABBAS, Muhammad Ghazanfar;ZHANG, Fan;SHAHZAD, Umeair;MAHMOOD, Memon Rafait
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.573-585
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    • 2021
  • The banking sector is one of the most important sectors in Pakistan's struggling economy. Recent studies have recommended that suitable methods can be applied to predict bankruptcy. In this context, this work analyzes Pakistan's banking sector's financial status through the five-factor Altman Z-score model, which determines the probability of bankruptcy for an organization. Banking data has been collected through the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in the period 2013-2017. The Z-score assessment criteria is defined as: Z> 2.99 - "safe" zone; Z> 1.8 Z>2.98- "grey" zone; and Z <1.8 - "distress" zone. Results show good predictions for the local banking industry, while most foreign Pakistani banks were found bankrupt with the Z-score below 1.1. One of the financial risks investors face when investing in any company is the risk of bankruptcy. One of the most used models for predicting financial distress for any company is Altman's Z-score model. On the other hand, the Z-score analysis suggests that all banking establishments are not bankrupt because they have sufficient ability to control bankruptcy. At the same time, foreign banks failed financially and would not be able to be sustained in the future because they do not have the ability to pay the short-term and long-term debt.