This study mainly aimed to examine the effect of internal risks on the financial performance of the Jordanian commercial banks. The study sample comprised the entire commercial banks that are included in the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) spanning the period from 2009 to 2019. The study formulated four hypotheses, which are related to the effects of liquidity risk and leverage risk on the bank’s performance, proxied by ROA and ROE. Based on the results, liquidity risk did not have a significant effect on both ROA and ROE, while leverage risk did not have a significant effect on ROA, but it did on ROE. It can thus be concluded that the use of financial leverage should be taken into consideration because of its negative influence on the banks’ financial performance, specifically on the shareholders’ returns. It is recommended that future studies examine the effect of additional risk types, like credit risk and operational risk on the performance of banks.

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of XBRL adoption on information symmetry in the presence of knowledge management as a mediating variable. Data were collected using a questionnaire distributed to all employees working at the Jordan Securities Commission (JSC). Applying the partial least squares method via SmartPLS-3, the results pointed out that the XBRL had significant positive direct effects on knowledge management and information symmetry, knowledge management had a significant positive direct effect on information symmetry. Hence, a partially mediating significant effect of knowledge management was detected between the XBRL and information symmetry. Accordingly, the study recommended governmental legislative bodies to continue supporting XBRL adoption to improve the quality of financial information. The study also recommends understanding the perceptions of preparers and users of financial statements about challenges that hinder the adoption of XBRL in various commercial sectors in order to improve the consistency of informational content in annual reports.