Papers by Victoria Bogdan
Sustainability
Board gender diversity literature has demonstrated the positive influence of female leaders’ trai... more Board gender diversity literature has demonstrated the positive influence of female leaders’ traits, such as openness to negotiation and collaboration, greater flexibility in approaching professional tasks, and improved quality of life, on the business development strategy and consequently on the performance of the companies. This study aims to investigate gender diversity’s link to business performance through bibliometric network analysis, highlighting the scientific literature dynamics through a scientific mapping of the existing knowledge. The temporal evolution of the gender diversity and business performance nexus in the scientific publications selected from Web of Science was examined for 1996–2021, investigating more than 2000 documents and focusing on author, keyword, paper, journal, and topic analysis. The statistical processing of publications was performed in R using Bibliometrix and Biblioshiny software, revealing the most influential and prolific authors and also the m...
Complexity
This study examined the influence of the executive board of directors’ gender diversity on the fi... more This study examined the influence of the executive board of directors’ gender diversity on the financial performance of listed companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, for the period 2011 to 2019. The analysis of the composition and different characteristics of the board and the executive directors proved to be effective tools for corporate governance in countries with an emerging capital market. Therefore, a disclosure index on directors’ characteristics was used to moderate the interaction between gender diversity and financial performance, based on the theoretical framework provided by upper echelon theory. The study contributes to the enrichment of the literature both by using the composite indicator built by applying the multiway PCA method on panel data to express financial performance and by designing the ten EGLS panel models involving five financial indicators and two proxies for gender diversity. The results showed that there is a positive impact of the proportion of wom...
The financing decision alongside with investment decision represents the core of financial manage... more The financing decision alongside with investment decision represents the core of financial management. The paper presents the main steps in realizing investment projects, the option criteria used in preinvestment analysis, the techniques of financing the investments project, but also the methods of evaluation applied in selecting the most suitable project, accordingly with company’s developlment strategy and policy.
Experimental Research of Economics MA Students’ Perception on the Theoretical Framework of Professional Judgment in Accounting in Connection with Individual Personality Traits
Revista De Cercetare Si Interventie Sociala, 2016
Professional judgment is an increasingly important and provocative topic due to the multiple chal... more Professional judgment is an increasingly important and provocative topic due to the multiple challenges that must face today the accounting. It becomes more important to understand the components of a fair and qualitative judgment and the key factors that may influence its exercise. To discuss about an adequate professional judgment in accounting it is crucial to relate to a conceptual framework. The present study conducted on master students in finance and accounting has proposed mainly to: (1) understand the cognitive process of professional judgment in accounting; (2) identify some of the individual personality variables that are likely to influence the exercise of logical and rational judgments and (3) statistically test the possible correlations between the appropriate professional judgment in accounting and individual personality characteristics. The instrument of our investigative research was the questionnaire. Out of the 106 master students, 91 of them are currently employe...
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2020
We are interested in the hierarchy of the main Romanian companies in the manufacturing industry b... more We are interested in the hierarchy of the main Romanian companies in the manufacturing industry by considering eight financial and seven non-financial indicators. Thirty three listed companies, that are non-financial institutions, were selected for the study and in order to control the reliability of the data we used the Bucharest Stock Exchange database, official data published by the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, and the annual reports released by the companies on their websites, collecting information for the years 2011–2015. Because the human thinking is subjective and ambiguous we prefer linguistic variables, converted afterwards in triangular fuzzy numbers, to represent the importance of indicators. Our method involves the calculation of the weights of individual or categories of indicators based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process. Then, the level of performance for each company, separately for financial, non-financial and all indicators is obtained by TOPSIS method. W...
Kybernetes, 2022
PurposeThe purpose of this work is twofold. First, looks to identify the main homogenous groups o... more PurposeThe purpose of this work is twofold. First, looks to identify the main homogenous groups of companies after environmental, social, economic and governance (ESEG) disclosures, non-financial statement and earnings per share (EPS), and second investigates the connection between variables.Design/methodology/approachUsing financial and non-financial information from annual reports of private listed companies, the authors performed two-step cluster analysis (TSCA) in the first stage of the research, followed by parametric, nonparametric correlation analysis, as well as regression analysis based on panel data, in the second stage.FindingsResults of TSCA revealed a cluster of companies with good financial and non-financial outcomes and a cluster of companies with poor performance. The performance dynamics showed a slight improvement during the period for few companies and composition analysis of clusters by industries through Kruskal–Wallis test highlighted differences between cluste...
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2008
The business community has admitted that the accounting is "the language of business". ... more The business community has admitted that the accounting is "the language of business". They are using the accounting to communicate the existence and the evolution of the financial situation and also of the performance for the economical entities. Financial information is a form of a language. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the various elements of financial reporting frameworks and practice in the context of the Internet. The Internet has emerged as a recent medium of presentation of corporate information in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, but also in the Central and Eastern European Countries. Actual disclosure by companies from CEE was investigated in order to compare de jure and the facto financial reporting disclosure.
Earnings per share indicator does not provide though the possibility to compare all the enterpris... more Earnings per share indicator does not provide though the possibility to compare all the enterprises which compute it due to the difficulties in interpreting the differences noticed from one enterprise to another, differences which can result from the different number of shares issued by each of them and from the different categories of shares issued. The accounting policy of IASB regarding the determination and interpretation of earnings per share of the enterprise is implemented through IAS 33. The main objective of our paper has in view the description and exemplification of the computing model of the Earnings per share indicator.
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In tourism, online reviews are tools for researching the perceptions of the tourists. The evaluat... more In tourism, online reviews are tools for researching the perceptions of the tourists. The evaluation that all review websites do (Booking.com, TripAdvi-sor.com, Expedia.com, etc.) involves making an average between the grades of 5, 6 or 7 features, each having an equally weighted average. It is likely that the average obtained does not reflect actual consumer satisfaction, because for every individual, the characteristics have different importance weights and may even vary in content from one individual to another or from one situation to another. The analysis of the reviews associated to the assessments would be revealing but it is difficult to do, give their descriptive nature and the high number. The purpose of this paper is to find a method which allows the identification of the characteristics of hotels' offer, from the reviews posted online, which are of interest to consumers. This paper proposes a method capable of operating with a large amount of descriptive data (15,200...
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and Holt Romania Foundation REVISTA DE CERCETARE SI INTERVENTIE SOCIALA is indexed by ISI Thomson... more and Holt Romania Foundation REVISTA DE CERCETARE SI INTERVENTIE SOCIALA is indexed by ISI Thomson Reuters-Social Sciences Citation Index (Sociology and Social Work Domains) Working together www.rcis.ro expert projects publishing 98 REVISTA DE CERCETARE {I INTERVEN}IE SOCIAL|-VOLUMUL 55/2016 Abstract Professional judgment is an increasingly important and provocative topic due to the multiple challenges that must face today the accounting. It becomes more important to understand the components of a fair and qualitative judgment and the key factors that may influence its exercise. To discuss about an adequate professional judgment in accounting it is crucial to relate to a conceptual framework. The present study conducted on master students in finance and accounting has proposed mainly to: (1) understand the cognitive process of professional judgment in accounting; (2) identify some of the individual personality variables that are likely to influence the exercise of logical and rationa...
Empirical Social Research to Identify Clusters of Characteristics that Underlie the Online Evaluation of Accommodation Services
Revista De Cercetare Si Interventie Sociala, 2015
In tourism, online reviews are tools for researching the perceptions of the tourists. The evaluat... more In tourism, online reviews are tools for researching the perceptions of the tourists. The evaluation that all review websites do (Booking.com, TripAdvisor. com, Expedia.com, etc.) involves making an average between the grades of 5, 6 or 7 features, each having an equally weighted average. It is likely that the average obtained does not reflect actual consumer satisfaction, because for every individual, the characteristics have different importance weights and may even vary in content from one individual to another or from one situation to another. The analysis of the reviews associated to the assessments would be revealing but it is difficult to do, give their descriptive nature and the high number. The purpose of this paper is to find a method which allows the identification of the characteristics of hotels’ offer, from the reviews posted online, which are of interest to consumers. This paper proposes a method capable of operating with a large amount of descriptive data (15,200 rev...
“Colorful” Approach Regarding Creative Accounting. An Introspective Study Based On the Association Technique
Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 2014
The research aims to make an introspection of the irrational behavior of the managers who, being ... more The research aims to make an introspection of the irrational behavior of the managers who, being under the pressure of sending as favorable as possible signals to different categories of users regarding the enterprise they manage, are tempted to use creative accounting techniques. The research is based on the administration of a questionnaire to Romanian managers from Bihor county. Wishing to detect as favorably as possible the way in which the managers perceive and develop their relations with auditors and accountants, we have used in making up the questionnaire, a research method from the category of projective techniques, the free association technique. We found out that more than half of sampled managers are inclined to change an accounting policy that brings major benefits to the firm’s image and also there is an aversion towards risk among managers in Bihor, yet it is doubled by their tendency towards accounting manipulation. The projective techniques chosen have led us then to carry out two polar diagrams which detect the managers’ perception regarding auditors and accountants.
This paper examines the setting up of accounting procedures and policies in sampled SMEs from Bih... more This paper examines the setting up of accounting procedures and policies in sampled SMEs from Bihor, county selected after criteria of size at the end of 2008. In order to conduct our research we have set up a questionnaire of 25 questions which has been applied to 100 SMEs. The obtained results showed that out of the 83 respondents, only 92,68% agree with the provisions of Article 10 of Order 3055/2009, according to which entities must develop their own accounting policies approved by the managers, only 75,60% of the respondents agree that the existence of written accounting policies at the enterprise level improves the quality of financial reporting and managers’ decision making process and a significant number of respondents (21,95%) do not know the fact that during a financial year, a firm’s accounting policies cannot be changed. The most relevant result of our investigative research consist in identifying the need to train the human resources involved in the process of writ...
Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 2017
Chaotic dynamics of today’s global business environment exert a tremendous pressure on profession... more Chaotic dynamics of today’s global business environment exert a tremendous pressure on professionals accounting judgment performance. A survey was mailed to Romanian professional accountants to examine their perception on accounting judgments and decisions. The results based on 531 valid responses indicate that professionals considered that a judgment in accounting is influenced by the responsibility of the accountant in preparing the financial statements according to the regulatory financial reporting framework. Also, they think that an adequate accounting judgment is best characterized by: "logical, consistent and substantiated", characteristics. Exploring statistical differences between accountants, grouped by age, gender, as well as years of practice, we found that younger investigated accountants are more optimistic that the ones over 45. We have used Chi-Square test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient and showed that there is a correlation between accountants’ prop...
Applying Mpca Analysis To Evaluate Financial Performance Of Romanian Listed Companies
Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2017
The paper aims to investigate the main determinants of financial performance of Romanian companie... more The paper aims to investigate the main determinants of financial performance of Romanian companies using principal component analysis technique (PCA) for the year 2015 by constructing a composite index of financial performance and revealing also the main groups of companies according to their performance using cluster analysis technique. For this, the methodology of building composite indices proposed by the OECD (2008) will be applied. Furthermore, the sample used in the analysis covers a number of 57 companies from 8 economic sectors at the level of 2015. The analysis used 11 financial accounting indicators: market value added (MVA), added liquid value / credit valuation adjustment (CVA), weighted average cost of capital (WACC), earnings per share (EPS), price earnings ratio (PER), dividend per share (DPS), return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), share of intangible assets (intangible investments) in total turnover (ITO), global solvency (SOL) and current liquidity (CL). D...
Tourist Destination Assessment by Revised Importance-Performance Analysis
The goal of this research is to improve the Importance-Performance Matrix by more accurately fitt... more The goal of this research is to improve the Importance-Performance Matrix by more accurately fitting the attributes of quality into matrix quadrants. The working methodology implied the use of the mathematical apparatus, respectively of five validated mathematical indexes (Dunn validity index, Silhouette validity index, validity index Calinski-Harabasz, Pakhira-Bandyopadhyay-Maulik validity index and Davies-Bouldin validity index). It will consider the position of an attribute in a quadrant validated if it resulted in all five index-generated situations. It was tested the method for the data collected from the customers accommodated in the International Hotel in Băile Felix Spa, Romania. The result shows that the number of attributes that retain their quadrant position in all situations is greatly reduced, but the certainty about the position of the attributes is greatly increased. This method increases the rigor of IPA and helps managers in their decision-making about quality of se...
Profiles. The Way MA Students Perceive Professional Accountants and Managers
Nowadays, the accountant’s and business manager’s image in society is an increasingly debated sub... more Nowadays, the accountant’s and business manager’s image in society is an increasingly debated subject in the literature. The existing stereotypes in accounting developed in relation with the national context affect the students’ attitude towards accounting (Albu et al., 2012). This study aimed to design the profiles of professional accountants and managers in the perception of 106 MA students. We used the questionnaire and the projective research techniques. The exploratory factor analysis, revealed three distinct profiles of accountants: liberal and independent, statutory and advisor professional accountant, and two profiles of managers: confident and conservative. Only the profile of statutory professional accountant is explained by experience and education and there is a positive correlation between the scale of professional judgment and this profile. We found that the higher the score for statutory professional accountant the stronger the opinion that the correctness of professi...
Journal of Business Economics and Management
Financial indicators are the most used variables in measuring the business performance of compani... more Financial indicators are the most used variables in measuring the business performance of companies, signaling about the financial position, comprehensive income, and other significant reporting aspects. In a competitive environment, the performance measurement model allows performing comparative analysis in the same industry and between industries. This paper aims to design a composite financial index to determine the financial performance of listed companies, further used in predicting business performance through neural networks. Principal components analysis was used to build a composite financial index, employing four traditional accounting indicators and four value-based indicators for the period 2011–2018. Five experiments were conducted to predict business performance through the composite financial index. The results showed that observations from two years, of the first three experiments, indicate a better predictive behavior than the same experiments using observations fro...
Sustainability
This research aims to investigate whether gender and age of Professional Accountants influence th... more This research aims to investigate whether gender and age of Professional Accountants influence their opinion upon accounting judgments and sustainable decision-making. Through a questionnaire, accountants were interrogated about their education, professional profile, age, gender, personality traits, and their perception on accounting judgment and professional behavior. On one hand, results showed that women accountants are more inclined to comply with accounting regulations and more interested in following an ethical behavior. Moreover, women tend to be more interested in fulfilling managers’ expectations and more willing to collaborate. On the other hand, men accountants proved to be more independent in judgments and more skeptical. Furthermore, men have a greater propensity to make accurate, sustainable judgments, considering the evaluation of goodwill as more important than women. However, no correlations were found between age, gender and accountants’ perception on the theoretic...
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Apr 16, 2020
We are interested in the hierarchy of the main Romanian companies in the manufacturing industry b... more We are interested in the hierarchy of the main Romanian companies in the manufacturing industry by considering eight financial and seven non-financial indicators. Thirty three listed companies, that are non-financial institutions, were selected for the study and in order to control the reliability of the data we used the Bucharest Stock Exchange database, official data published by the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, and the annual reports released by the companies on their websites, collecting information for the years 2011-2015. Because the human thinking is subjective and ambiguous we prefer linguistic variables, converted afterwards in triangular fuzzy numbers, to represent the importance of indicators. Our method involves the calculation of the weights of individual or categories of indicators based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process. Then, the level of performance for each company, separately for financial, non-financial and all indicators is obtained by TOPSIS method. We deduce an objective hierarchy of the companies on a rigorous basis, which is however dependent from the choice of indicators and the conversion scale of linguistic variables into triangular fuzzy numbers. Also, following the obtained results we concluded that the overall performance of companies for the analyzed period is significantly influenced by non-financial indicators.
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