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Publications (26)


THE MODERATING EFFECT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEES ROLE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND LIMITING OF PRACTICES CREATIVE ACCOUNTING, A FIELD STUDY ON THE JORDANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES
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September 2022

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International Journal of Entrepreneurship

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Al-Balqa

Creative accounting is one of the biggest challenges facing the ethical framework of accounting, because of the accounting information that lacks the elements of control and transparency, and therefore the search for reliable and appropriate information for decision-making has become a real challenge that can be addressed through of corporate governance and audit committees. The main objective of the research is identifying the influence of corporate governance in limiting the practices of creative accounting by the existence of audit committees as a Moderating variable, a field study was conducted on the Jordanian industrial companies that are listed on the Stock Exchange of Amman, Jordan. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher developed a questionnaire and distributed among the study population consisting of financial managers and accountants using systematic random sampling. Data were collected and analyzed by relying on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The study found that Corporate Governance in effects the Limiting of Practices Creative Accounting. And audit committees moderates the relationship that exists between Corporate Governance and Limiting of Practices Creative Accounting. In light of the results, hopefully In Companies should be motivated to put in place an effective corporate governance mechanism they will curtail creative accounting practices. In particular, the independence of the audit committee should be sacrosanct and compelled among the listed companies in Jordan.

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THE ROLE OF THE EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY IN ACHIEVING ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY IN JORDANIAN TELECOM COMPANIES: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR

June 2022

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Reyad Abdallah Alkhawaldah

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Al-Balqa

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Waleed Kalf

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This study aimed to explore the role of employees empowerment strategy (employee training, organizational confidence, job enrichment, and delegation of authority) in achieving organizational Ambidexterity (exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation, and flexible organizational structure), with the existence of creative behavior as a mediating variable at Jordanian telecom company's environment. The descriptive analytical method has been used through data collection by means of a questionnaire distributed to Jordanian telecom company's After the statistical analysis of the questionnaire, appeared several key findings most important of which are creative behavior mediates the relationship between strategy of delegation of authority and flexible organizational structure although did not mediate the relationship between (employee training, organizational confidence, and job enrichment) and flexible organizational structure. Initially this study recommended that Theoretical and practical implication are considered.


The impact of corona pandemic on SMEs: Experience from Jordan

December 2021

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The study aims to highlight the most important implications of the Corona pandemic on the financial performance of small, and medium businesses in Jordan by distributing a survey to a sample of small business owners. The study resulted in finding that the sales of 37% of businesses declined by more than 50% since the last quarter of 2019, and that 78% of them suffered from a 6-months decline in profits. 40% of the study sample believes that their business will be closed if the crisis continues because they cannot fulfill their financial obligations towards suppliers. Therefore, the study recommends taking measures to help those small, and medium businesses. Those measures can be applied by providing a range of financial facilities such as: postponing the installments of credit facilities for small businesses, providing tax and customs exemptions, and directing business owners and the parties concerned to work on postponing rent payments.


DETERMINANTS AND IMPACT OF THE BUDGET DEFICIT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN JORDAN: VECM APPROACH

December 2021

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Budget deficit has a crucial impact on Jordanian's economic growth. This study applies Granger Causality Test, and Vector Error Correction model (VECM) to analyze Jordanian government budget during the period (1990-2018) by investigating the development of that budget deficit and the factors affecting it. Then, the researcher will use an econometrics model to measure and study the impact of the budget deficit on the economic growth in Jordan. For this purpose, both will be applied. Results reveal that there are several factors lead to an increase of the government's expenditures, such as different forms of military expenses, and to not keeping up with revenues to growth in expenditures for several reasons including, tax evasion, financial and administrative corruption, the incapability of collecting government's funds from different agencies that are bound to repayments, the increase of total governmental demands with the reduction of domestic product and tending to exporting, which negatively affect trade equilibrium and the budget of the government, one other factor is long-term loans that carry interests that lead to draining the country's economic capabilities. Moreover, the study finds that government budget deficit has no effect on economic growth. Also, there is a positive effect by economic growth on the Government budget deficit. The study model contains cointegration relationship among the variables, so VECM can be applied. The results show the error term in economic growth equation is not significant, meaning that economic growth in Jordan in the longer-term does not response to changes in Government budget deficit.


COMMERCIAL PAPER-GUARANTEES OF FULFILLMENT AND ITS EXPIRATION WITHOUT FULFILLMENT

September 2021

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Moral law is based on a set of legal principles that are considered one of the most important characteristics of the exchange obligation, and aims to achieve circulation of the commercial paper and transfer the right fixed in it at the speed that serves commercial activity, and to ensure the greatest amount of confidence in the holder of the commercial paper that he will obtain its value on the maturity date. The exchange law means a set of rules mentioned in the commerce code related to the creation, circulation, and guarantee of commercial papers, and the fulfillment of their value, and the procedures to be followed upon refraining from such payment, and the statute of limitations resulting from it. It was called the exchange law because the bill, in particular, was originally created to implement the exchange contract. The characteristics of the exchange obligation can be attributed to a comprehensive idea that commercial paper cannot perform their various economic functions unless their circulation is easy and affordable, and the successive campaigners are assured that their value will be met on the due date, and this is why the law made the moratoria obligation an obligation of extreme cruelty to the debtor. Formally, independent of the fixed exchange obligations in the same paper, and abstract from the original relationship that led to its creation.


Liquidity Risk Measurement Study Case (Jordan Islamic Banks)

August 2021

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23 Citations

International Journal of Entrepreneurship

The objective of this study was to develop a liquidity risk measurement model for Islamic banks. Liquidity was calculated using a set of ratios: the investment ratio, the capital adequacy ratio, the financial performance ratio, asset return, and the equity return ratio. The study was based on a simple and multiple linear regression analysis, following the analytical and descriptive research method. This study included the three banks of Jordanian Islamic Bank, and only two banks in Jordan, Jordan Islamic Bank for Finance and Investment and the International Arab Bank, Safwa Islamic Bank, had been excluded due to the absence of sufficient data for the period under study. The study included the study population of Jordan Islamic Banks. The study recommended that islamic banks issue short-term Islamic financial instruments that tackle the issue of liquidity and use this for interest-free debt rather than the central bank, which is unable to deal with Islamic banks in cases of liquidity deficiency.


THE LEGAL SYSTEM FOR UNFAIR COMPETITION LAWSUIT TO PROTECT THE TRADE NAME

January 2021

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This research aims at identifying the legal system for claiming unfair competition to protect the trade name, because it is known that the trader has ownership right over his trade name, whereby he can prevent others from using it in the same type of trade he practices, and the trader who attacked his trade name by any act of Acts of Unfair Competition To file a claim called "Unlawful Competition" to claim for damages. The success of this case requires the availability of several conditions, and if these conditions exist and the court proves that there is an actual attack on the trade name, which would cause confusion and confusion among customers, the court may decide what it deems appropriate. In order to initiate an unfair competition, there must be a competition, the competition must have been conducted in an illegal manner, and that would cause harm to others.


IMPACT OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DETERMINANTS AFFECTING THE PROFITABILITY OF JORDANIAN ISLAMIC BANKS (2012 -2019)

January 2021

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11 Citations

Academy of Strategic Management Journal

This study aimed to examine the economic and financial determinants that affect the profitability of Jordanian Islamic banks, as this study was conducted on the three Jordanian Islamic banks during the time period (2012-2019). The study sample consists of three Islamic banks listed on the ASE and using the Panel data method. Where the study included the variable dependent on the profitability of Islamic banks measured by (average) return on assets and return on property right and independent variables of external determinants which are Inflation, money supply and internal determinants of capital adequacy and liquidity. The study included the dependent variable represented by the profitability of Islamic banks measured by (the rate of return on assets and the rate of return on equity) and the independent variables represented by the economic determinants, namely: inflation, money supply, and the financial determinants represented by the adequacy of capital and liquidity. The most prominent findings of the study are the presence of a negative and significant effect of the capital adequacy ratio, the presence of a positive and significant effect on the liquidity ratio, a positive and significant effect of the money supply and the absence of a significant effect of the inflation rate on the profitability of Islamic banks the rate of return on equity (ROE), in addition to the absence of a significant effect of the adequacy ratio. The absence of a significant effect of the liquidity ratio, the absence of a significant effect of the inflation rate, and the absence of a significant effect of the money supply on the profitability of Islamic banks the rate of return on assets (ROA).


TALENT MANAGEMENT, THE SUCCESS FUNCTION OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

January 2021

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3 Citations

Academy of Strategic Management Journal

Talent Management is characterized as the key cycle of utilizing human assets wanting to improve the business's worth and helping organizations arrive at their objectives by getting the correct ability ready and helping them develop their ideal capacities. Talent Management is a way to deal with Human Resources Management. HR is the association's essential wellspring of upper hand; a basic resource that is turning into an undeniably short gracefully. This paper hopes to clarify the essentialness of the move in HR chief's activities to join with the objectives of the affiliation, that require the obtainment of capacity since uncommon objectives need staggering workers. Moreover, those must be administered in non-standard ways, that enables them to perceive the usage of their endowments to achieve their destinations and focus on their affiliations.


FACTORS AFFECTING CREDIT POLICY IN ISLAMIC BANKS OF JORDAN

January 2021

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Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal

The study aimed to indicate the most prominent components of the credit policy in Islamic banks of Jordan and to indicate the factors affecting those banks. The descriptive and analytical approach used SPSS to collect data through the design of a questionnaire distributed to the study sample and the study reaches the following results: There are no significant statistical differences in the components of the credit policy in Islamic banks of Jordan, from one bank to another. The following factors (the experience and competence of the bank's employees, the bank's financial resources, the nature of the bank's management) have a statistically significant impact on the credit policy of Islamic banks of Jordan. All factors accounted for 21.4% of the discrepancy in the bank's credit policies. The study made several recommendations, the most important of which were: The need for Islamic banks of Jordan to continue to develop and follow up their credit policy continuously. So be strong competition with traditional banks.


Citations (14)


... Notably, understanding the external factors affecting the effectiveness of internal auditors in Jordan's public sector can provide deeper insights into many comparable countries, particularly Arab nations. Meanwhile, for the Jordanian government, related studies have suggested focusing on the Internal Audit Function (IAF) and its efficiency ((Nawaiseh, et al. [4]), in addition to allocating internal resources of public organizations through effective internal auditing, as a means to mitigate corruption issues in the public sector. ...

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The relationship between organizational culture, information technology, and the effectiveness of internal auditing: A study in Vietnam
Dimensions Of Corporate Governance And Organizational Learning: An Empirical Study

... Comparative advertisements in France before 1992 were seen as a form of devaluation of the brand, 63 so the courts usually ruled that they were illegal, even if the advertiser did not mention any false statements about the competitor's trademark or had the desire to discredit the latter. 64 However, after adopting the provisions of the European Directive the text of article 3/2 of European Directive No. 7 of 1997 and regulating comparative declarations under the article (121) of the French Consumer Code, the competitor established his claim against the advertiser based on this provision if the advertiser violates any of the rules provided in this Act to allow comparative advertising. ...

THE LEGAL SYSTEM FOR UNFAIR COMPETITION LAWSUIT TO PROTECT THE TRADE NAME

... Our method is well known (Alqudah et al., 2023b;Alqudah et al., 2024a;AlShanti et al., 2024;Li et al., 2022). We started by looking at 1,467 papers that cited Brika (2022) as a starting point (Abbas et al., 2022;Bellucci et al., 2022;Caputo et al., 2018Caputo et al., , 2021Farooq, 2024;Momani et al., 2023;Qudah et al., 2021b). We applied filters to refine the search results, concentrating on "Accounting, Auditing, and Finance," document types ("article"), publication stages ("final"), source types ("journal"), and language ("English"), which yielded 1,467 articles. ...

Liquidity Risk Measurement Study Case (Jordan Islamic Banks)

International Journal of Entrepreneurship

... However, studies seem to ignore the economic role of nancial sector development within the Doing Businesscapital ight nexus. This is because when the nancial sector of the economy is developed, it is an indication that there is high access to credit, reasonable cost of holding money and overall stability of the nancial sector (Abdo et al., 2021). These are necessary conditions for the business environment to thrive. ...

IMPACT OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DETERMINANTS AFFECTING THE PROFITABILITY OF JORDANIAN ISLAMIC BANKS (2012 -2019)

Academy of Strategic Management Journal

... This was done because the experts told us. This choice ensures comprehensive coverage of COSO-related auditing research, adhering to the PRISMA criteria (Page et al., 2021;Pritchard, 1969;Qudah et al., 2021a. A focused search targeting COSO-related auditing topics in English literature within the WoS Core Collection from 2003 to 2023 yielded 375 papers. ...

FACTORS AFFECTING CREDIT POLICY IN ISLAMIC BANKS OF JORDAN

Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal

... Kukreja, Mohan Gupta, Sarea, and Kumaraswamy (2020) suggest that the Z-score can reveal instances where a fictitious financial year may have been added to artificially enhance financial results and obscure potential bankruptcy risks. Additionally, the Z-score can identify potential financial manipulations and provide a broad assessment of a company's financial well-being (Mohammad et al., 2021). By analyzing various financial ratios, the Z-score can uncover hidden losses that may have accumulated over time, suggesting potential financial instability. ...

PREDICTING FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS USING FRAUD DETECTION MODELS

... There are many parameters both internal and external to be considered while planning the TM strategies; organizational culture/structure, employee engagement/commitment, employee mobility, demographic deviations, talent shortages in the market and national/regional culture (Kravariti & Johnston, 2019) [10] . The board of each organization is one of the critical executors of the exercises of HRM; they are the "creators" of selection, creation, and retention of employees' activities and this also implies the activities utilized to distinguish exceptional talented people and offer them what they want to keep them in the organization (Alheet, Al-Lawzi, Shaheen, Areiqat & Zamil, 2021) [1] . The talented people have different qualities and inspirations from the majority of people; they can manage greater intricacy, they are unique and quicker, are inclined towards various difficult situations and since more is anticipated from them, they consequently expect also more from the management (Alheet, et al., 2021) [1] . ...

TALENT MANAGEMENT, THE SUCCESS FUNCTION OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Academy of Strategic Management Journal

... This means that if a company is enormous, the cost of the agency will likewise be high, and vice versa. Therefore, larger organizations may enhance the level of voluntary disclosure to avoid this agency problem and conflict; in other words, large companies are more able to provide greater voluntary disclosure than small companies (Dahiyat, 2020a) This argument is supported by many studies such as (Fah & Huei, 2016;Monday Ikpor et al., 2019;Nurudeen et al., 2018;Ramalan et al., 2021;Seran, 2022). Profit is one of the very important tool use in evaluation of manager's performance and accountability (Kalbuana et al., 2022). ...

DETERMINANTS OF VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE QUALITY IN JORDAN: EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING COMPANIES LISTED IN AMMAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal

... Previous studies have significantly enhanced our knowledge of the IA quality determinants, and several factors enhancing it have been identified. It has been suggested that the IA quality can be enhanced by the Big 4 auditors and ACs activities (Khlif & Samaha, 2016;Oussii & Boulila Taktak, 2018b;Sartawe et al., 2017), the management support (Alzeban & Gwilliam, 2014), electronic business management (Bshayreh et al., 2019), the objectivity and professionalism (Matarneh, 2011), culture and individualism (Alzeban, 2015), the level of compliance toward ethical rules (Alsmairat et al., 2018), sustainable CG (Rehman, 2021), and access to information (Krichene & Baklouti, 2021). The IA quality and its determinants appeared to be the most explored topic with 21 research articles (see Table 5). ...

THE EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF INTERNAL AUDIT THROUGH DEVELOPING THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNAL AUDITOR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE JORDANIAN INSURANCE COMPANIES

... It, therefore, follows that the explanatory variables can be regressed together in each of the models given the absence of linear interference among them. This finding corroborates with the results of Khaled (2020) and Omodero (2020) which showed no evidence of linear interference between the predictors of capital market performance. ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRYPTO CURRENCIES AND OFFICIAL ARABIAN CURRENCIES EXCHANGE RATE

Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal