Researcher Khalid Akram Zriki, student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Arab American University, defended his master degree thesis in strategic planning and fundraising, entitled “Field Examination of the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Profit Management Practices by Companies Listed on the Capital Market Authority”.

The researcher addressed the relationship between corporate governance and governance standards with profit management. Several variables were examined including; the company's CEO, number of members of the board of directors, quality of audit, concentration of ownership, and the board of directors independence.

In the end, the committee composed of the thesis supervisor and the head of the committee Dr. Nasr Abdel Karim, Dr. Mohammed Abu Sherba the internal examiner from the Arab American University, and the external examiner from Birzeit University, Dr. Yousef Hassan, decided to give student Khalid Zriki a master degree.