The purpose of this research is set out to examine the firm social responsibility disclosure practices in Kuwait by analyzing 2012 annual reports of industrial and service firms listed on Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) to find out whether the level of social disclosure is influenced by firm-specific characteristics. The study showed that the majority of the firms somehow disclose social information and revealed that the level of firm social responsibility disclosure is influenced by firm size, profitability and the government ownership. The study also demonstrated that social responsibility disclosure has a significant positive association with both firm size and profitability and negative marginal association with government ownership. Moreover, the study confirmed that other variables such as leverage; liquidity, firm age and type of industry have no significant impact on the social responsibility disclosure on industrial and service firms listed on KSE. The study concluded that the time has come for firms listed on KSE to do serious activities towards developing socialresponsibility disclosure.

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The current study attempts to explore the attitudes of the auditors towards the level of knowledge of Information Technology (IT) and its importance in Kuwait. To achieve these objectives, structure questionnaires were distributed among these auditors. The analysis covers 5 technology categories namely General Office Automation (GOA), Audit Automation (AA), Accounting Firm Office Automation (AFOA), E-Commerce Technologies (ECT) and System Design and Implementation (SDI).It is found that the view of auditors to IT knowledge degree is lower than their view towards the importance of the technologies. The auditors have satisfactory knowledge only in GOA category and unsatisfactory knowledge for other four categories. It is also found that auditors rank AFOA category is the most significant category in terms of IT importance and knowledge and rank (ECT) the lowest category in terms of both importance and IT knowledge.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions of a sample of Kuwaiti students about their knowledge and interest on the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the usefulness of learning IFRS. A questionnaire survey is used in this study to identify the attitudes of the students towards adoption IFRS in Kuwait. Questionnaires were distributed to 350 students who study in colleges of business administration in Kuwait. They were asked to express their perception about the adoption of IFRS. 228 questionnaires returned completed resulting in 65% usable response rate. The surveyed students gained knowledge about IFRS through their academic program. Most of the surveyed students knew nothing about IFRS before taking an accounting course that addresses the IFRS Standards. They became interested in learning more about IFRS after studying an accounting course. The surveyed students demonstrated that they acquired information about IFRS through formal academic lectures and the Internet. Yet, they prefer to study more about IFRS through formal lectures, practical case studies applied to Kuwaiti companies and seminars. There is consensus among the respondents that the business administration academic program must have more about IFRS offered as elective courses. Although Kuwait was one of the Middle Eastern countries that adopt IFAS, the vast majority of the students who took part in survey indicated that they were not aware of this. This gives clear indication that the financial reporting courses offered in business colleges in Kuwait are theoretical and hardly use the financial reports of companies listed on the national stock exchange as cases studies. The respondents believe studying IFRS helps in mastering accounting measurements and disclosure and this would help in proceeding in their studies and support them in developing their future career.

The study aims to demonstrate the degree to which contracting companies in Kuwait comply with the requirements of IAS 11 in terms of applying accounting disclosure requirements and applying the requirements for recognition of revenues and expenses of construction contracts. The study group consists of Kuwaiti contracting companies in the first category. The sample of the study consisted of accountants and internal auditors in contracting companies. The contracting companies in the State of Kuwait apply the requirements of accounting disclosure for construction contracts in accordance with the requirements of International Standard No. 11, and the contracting companies in the State of Kuwait apply the requirements for recognition of the revenues and expenses of construction contracts in accordance with the requirements of International Standard No. 11. The most recommendations: The necessity of contracting companies in the State of Kuwait to disclose the methods used to determine the level of completion of construction contracts under implementation, which helps in the application of full disclosure of construction contracts in addition to the possibility of integration of information elements of the financial statements. And the contracting companies to disclose the total amounts due to customers for the work of construction contracts as an asset within assets.