This book contains 17 chapters contributed by authors specializing in the related areas. The objective of the book is to disseminate research findings and ideas on corporate governance issues including environmental highlights from empirical works and literature reviews. This book will provide bases of reference for companies in enhancing their governance practices as well as for future researchers.

The concept of corporate governance covers the question of accountability, ethics and social responsibility of companies to society and stakeholders. In recent years, especially in the wake of the economic crisis, this concept has drawn attention of public worldwide including Malaysia and forcing companies to improve their governance in the interest of strengthening investors' confidence.

The objective of the study is to examine perceived Public Account Committee's (PAC) independence from the perspective of PAC members and non-PAC members. The findings indicate that for the PAC to be independence, it should be free from any form of interference from any party when exercising and conducting its responsibilities. The PAC must be free to select any topic or issue to be examined that they think important and involves the public interest. However, being independent can also be seen as a way of gaining political mileage for PAC members and also gives advantages to the opposition members too. Overall, the independence of the PAC is still debatable judging from the decision and action of the government that PAC is seemed to be used as a government tool to cover the activities of the government. The move made by the government in appointing most of its representatives as well as the PAC chairman in the PAC as cabinet members seem to support the claimed that question the independence of the PAC.

This book is written with the aim of providing reading and reference materials of accounting related studies that have been carried out in the Malaysian context. It will not only assist students and young researchers in conducting future research but can also be a source of reference to policymakers, implementer and relevant agencies in designing national policies. This book covers the area of corporate governance, accounting information system, financial reporting, performance measurement system, ethics, internal control and Syari'ah based accounting.

This book consists of eleven selected research in accounting issues, which are looking from Malaysian context. The issues are ranging from attributes of ethical practices as part of management control system and practices, issues related to external auditing and board of directors (BOD) as corporate governance mechanisms, performance management systems design, use and development status, security threats of computerised accounting information system (CAIS) and urgent needs for the knowledge and applications of Syari'ah based Accounting (SbA) as Islamic Capital Market (ICM) is rapidly developing throughtout the world, including Malaysia.