...Mohammed Ali Almuzaiqer; Maslina Ahmad; A.H. Fatima Purpose This study investigates how the timeliness of financial reporting by listed companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is influenced by the interaction effect between industry-specialist auditors and board governance. Design...

...Rihab Khalifa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that investigated the feasibility of a women-only professional accounting firm in the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that could help reduce female graduate unemployment in the city. Practically, the study...

...Rafiq Hijazi; Taoufik Zoubeidi; Ibrahim Abdalla; Mohamed Al‐Waqfi; Nasri Harb We provide an overview of the state of the higher education system in the UAE, and investigate its capacity to supply Dubai’s economy with skilled labor and achieve the emirate’s strategic social development objectives...

...Khaled Aljifri; Mohamed Moustafa The main aim of this study is to investigate empirically the effect of some internal and external corporate governance mechanisms on the UAE firm performance (i.e., Tobin’s q). Like many of the developing countries all over the world, the UAE has recently initiated...

...Ibrahim Balkir; Fatma Hassan Ismail; Sabri Al‐Segini The government of UAE helps its nationals to own their private houses. One of the programs that are designed to achieve this goal is the Sheikh Zayed Housing Program (SZHP). It pays grants and loans to nationals to have their own houses...

...Mohamed A. Moustafa The paper examines the effect of separation between ownership and control on firm performance through testing whether there is a significant difference between the performances of 24 owner‐controlled (OC) firms versus 25 manager‐controlled (MC) firms in UAE using the averages...

... internships Academic performance UAE University Journal of Economic & Administrative Sciences Vol. 20, No. 2, December 2004 (33 -44) An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of the Student Accounting Internships on Subsequent Academic Performance: The Case of UAE University Dr. Hussein Ebied College...