Nahed Habis Alrawashedh

The modern concept of social responsibility states that in the due course of business, enterprises should pay due attention to social interests of stakeholders as a whole as most of the decisions taken by a company affect all the stakeholders. Through these means, companies are now focusing on informing their stakeholders about their contribution to social responsibility through disclosures made in annual reports. In this direction, this study is being conducted with the aim of examining the social responsibility accounting disclosures (SRA) of the banks listed on the Amman stock market. The study analyzed data from 14 Amman Stock Exchange banks for ten years from 2012 to 2021. Data for the study were gathered from Amman Stock’s official website. The results of the study confirm that the extent of disclosures on SRA has been decreasing over the study period, and such a trend has been seen in all the four sub-dimensions (community, environment, employees, and stakeholders) of SRA. The results of the study confirm that social responsibility accounting disclosures differ significantly across the set of business characteristics like firm size, firm age, and equity ratio. The results also confirm a significant negative relationship between bank size and equity ratio with SRA and a significant positive relationship between age and profitability with SRA. The study results suggest that SRA disclosures should be increased both in terms of volume and pattern.

Lack of effective internal control, subpar financial reporting, and inefficient audits have all harmed an organization’s ability to operate efficiently. Organizations are now under pressure to enhance their auditing procedures in order to stop and catch fraud. Forensic accounting techniques have gained attention in this direction as a fraud identification and prevention tool. This study aims to examine the factors that affect an organization’s intention to adopt forensic accounting practices. The analysis is based on primary data and uses a sample of 273 employees from listed firms in Jordan to examine this phenomenon. Specifically, the study used correlation and regression analysis to investigate whether coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures determine organizations’ intentions to use forensic accounting practices. The results confirm a significant positive relationship between coercive, mimetic, and normative pressure and the organizations’ intentions to use forensic accounting practices among Jordanian firms. These results highlight the importance of management consultants and training of the employees for appropriate fraud risk management.

Management accounting plays a critical role in decision making since it supplies accounting information that would be helpful to managers in making critical decisions for an organization. In light of this assertion, the aim of the study was to determine how the listed Jordanian industrial organizations used management accounting techniques to make financial decisions. The study employed the descriptive research design and used primary data to collect the information on the related objectives of the study. The target population for this study was the employees of industrial enterprises in Jordan. Specifically, the employees forming the part of the sample were the managers and non-managers (excluding lower-level staff) working in industrial companies of Jordan. The industrial firms from where the employees were chosen included the industrial firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The sample size for the study has been 371 employees, selected based on the Krejcie and Morgan rule. The study’s findings supported the notion that budgeting, financial ratio analysis and activity-based costing are the most widely used management accounting techniques in these organizations. The results show that employees differ in their perception on the role of management accounting techniques in financial decision making. Specifically, the results of the study confirm the significant p-value (0.000) for t-statistics and f-value, thereby confirming that employees differ in their perception regarding the role of management accounting in financial decision making based on gender, type of job and years of experience.

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance components on intellectual capital performance in Jordanian banks. The research purpose is to gain insights into the relationship between various corporate governance components, including board size, board independence, CEO duality, and concentration of ownership, and their influence on intellectual capital efficiency. Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis is employed using data from 156 Jordanian banks by adding two control variables, total assets, and return on equity (ROE) to explore their potential influence. The obtained results reveal significant associations between certain corporate governance factors and intellectual capital efficiency. Ownership concentration demonstrates a direct and statistically relationship with IC performance, indicating that more concentrated ownership leads to improved management and utilization of intellectual capital resources. Additionally, return on equity shows a significant positive correlation with intellectual capital efficiency (Adj R2 was 22.5%). However, the study does not find significant relationships between board size, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) duality, and board independence with intellectual capital efficiency in Jordanian banks. These results suggest that the impact of these governance factors on IC performance may be more context-dependent and nuanced within the banking industry.

Digital transformation refers to strategic activities undertaken by organizations to improve and simplify their process and even alter their business models with abreast to enhance firm performance. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the impact of digital transformation on organizational performance among the Jordanian commercial banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The descriptive research design was used in this quantitative study. Primary data were collected to achieve the objectives of the study. The target population was employees (managers and non-managers) of Jordanian commercial banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The sample size was selected using Krejcie and Morgan rule; after data cleaning procedures, the final sample of 282 respondents was used for final analysis. The study employed regression analysis to arrive at the results. The results confirm that digital transformation has a significant positive effect on customer experience and IT innovation. These results were significant at a 1% level. The results also confirm that digital transformation has a significant positive effect on firm performance, with a significance level of 1%. Moreover, the significant positive impact of customer experience and IT innovation was confirmed. Therefore, the significant positive impact of digital transformation on firm performance was found viz-a-viz direct as well as indirect route.