The study aims to investigate the effect of auditing committee characteristics, represented in the auditing committee characteristics (size, independence, activity, financial expertise) on the enhancement of corporate value, for a sample of 47 Jordanian industrial companies listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period of (2014-2018). To achieve this goal, corporate value was measured using the return on assets (ROA) in addition to using the Pooled Data Regression. Study found a positive relationship between the auditing committee characteristics (size, activities, independence) and corporate value in the Jordanian industrial Companies, but didn't find a positive relationship between the financial expertise variable of auditing committee and the corporate value. Based on the study results, researchers made a number of recommendations that include: researchers and academic staffs must study in the future researches some of the other variables, such as the diversity of management committee, disclosure, transparency, and auditing fees in order to enhance corporate value.

The study aims to measure the effect of using balanced scorecard (BSC); with its different perspectives on reducing production costs in the Jordanian industrial companies. The study depends on the questionnaire which was addressed to the financial managers, accounting department heads, managerial and costs accountants. The study sample contained (171) employees working in the Jordanian industrial companies. It used the descriptive, analytical, and also the regression analysis methods. The study results showed a significant effect of using the following BSC perspectives (financial perspective, customers' perspective, internal processes perspective, and learning and growth perspective) on reducing production costs in the Jordanian industrial companies. The study recommended that industrial companies should keep paces with the rapid changes taking place in the manufacturing environment, and continuously encourage those companies to innovate their employees.

The study aims to measure the impact of corporate governance on reducing the agency costs in the Jordanian industrial public shareholding companies listed at Amman stock exchange, and to achieve this goal, the researchers studied the impact of corporate governance mechanism factors on reducing the agency costs, which can be represented in (Board size, institutional ownership, audit committee, debts ratio, dividends ratio, return on assets (ROA), and firm size). Agency costs were measured by using the following indicators: assets turnover ratio and operating expenses percentage. The study sample consisted of all industrial companies listed in Amman stock exchange, which have data available in this market during the period (2014)(2015)(2016), and amount to 46 companies. The relationship between the corporate governance and agency costs was tested by relying on the generalized estimating equations (GEE) model, which align with the time period and study variables to test the study hypotheses. Study found a statistically significant positive relationship between the non-distribution of company profits and the agency costs represented in the variable (operating expenses ratio) in both cases of existence and non-existence of control variables in the study model. The results also showed that whenever control variables exist in the study model, there is a statistically significant positive relationship between ROA and the agency costs represented in the (asset turnover ratio) variable.

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The study aims to measure the effect of privatisation on improving the financial performance at the Jordanian companies. The study sample consists of six Jordanian companies listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) in 2017, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a model has been developed by using T-test for paired samples, which included many variables and the issuing time of annual financial reports as the dependent variable. The results showed that privatisation programs did help to improve the performance of Jordanian companies, and in its adoption to privatisation policies, the Jordanian companies listed on the ASE need more time to issue public reports, in order to be compared with other sectors. The results of multiple regression analysis showed statistically positive significant effects between the companies profitability, financial companies leverage, and liquidity of companies annual financial reports. The study recommended that Jordanian companies should keep pace with the rapid changes taking place in the companies' environment and encourage innovations for their companies.