User profiles for Waqar I. Ghani

Waqar Ghani

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Saint Joseph's University
Verified email at sju.edu
Cited by 475

Accounting development in Pakistan

J Ashraf, WQI Ghani - The international journal of accounting, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper examines the origins, growth, and the development of accounting practices and
disclosures in Pakistan and the factors that influenced them. We trace the early days of …

Corporate governance, business group affiliation, and firm performance: Descriptive evidence from Pakistan

WI Ghani, J Ashraf - 2005 - ideas.repec.org
This study examines business groups and their impact on corporate governance in Pakistan.
We use non-financial firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange of Pakistan for 1998-2002 …

Wealth effects of the passage of the nutrition labeling and education act of 1990 for large US multinational food corporations

WQI Ghani, NM Childs - Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the authors investigate the wealth effects of the passage of the food labeling
regulation issued by the United States Nutritional Labeling and Education Act for a sample of …

Evaluating market orientation of an executive MBA program

KM Dubas, WI Ghani, S Davis… - Journal of Marketing for …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
This paper evaluates the market orientation of the Executive MBA program offered at Saint
Joseph's University (Philadelphia) using input from a study of current and past students. The …

[BOOK][B] Accounting in a country: The case of Pakistan

J Ashraf, WI Ghani - 2005 - core.ac.uk
Recent advances in information and financial technology have pushed the ideas of global
business strategy and alliances into center stage. The level of understanding of outsiders …

Differential reaction to bond downgrades for small versus large firms: Evidence from analysts' forecast revisions

CE Clark, PL Foster, WI Ghani - The Journal of Fixed Income, 1997 - search.proquest.com
Research investigates the information effect and the value-relevance of bond rating changes.
It evaluates financial analysts' reaction to such changes using a refined method of …

The impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on multinational firms: Evidence from the stock market

WI Ghani, JL Haverty - Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and …, 1995 - Elsevier
This article investigates the stock market reaction associated with the passage of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for firms that cited NAFTA as a favorable …

Market reaction of Multinational corporations to the Passage of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

WI Ghani, JL Haverty - Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and …, 1998 - Elsevier
This study investigates the stock market reaction to the passage of the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for a sample of US multinational corporations which expressed …

Disclosure of EVA use in corporate financial reports: A descriptive analysis

WQI Ghani, A Tezel, JM Ragan… - Journal of Applied …, 2005 - clutejournals.com
This descriptive study examines a sample of 269 firms that mentioned EVA in their public
disclosures. The key findings of our study are:(1) the use of EVA is found in a cross-section of …

Financial Analysts' Forecasts and Unprecedented Events: The Case of German Reunification

WQI Ghani, SH Szewczyk, T Shabbir - International Advances in Economic …, 2007 - Springer
We use the chain of events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the reunification of Germany to
examine how capital market participants respond to momentous and unprecedented events. …