Wax apple (Syzygium samarangense) is a tropical fruit with attractive appearance and thirst-relieving properties, offering a unique apple-like crispness, watery-sweet, low-acid taste and the aroma of roses. Compared to whole fruit, freshcut fruits are more perishable due to high respiration, ethylene production, and membrane degradation, thus reducing fruit usage. This paper reports the effect of storage period and cut sizes on quality of fresh-cut wax apples. Fresh wax apple fruits were prepared according to the treatments: whole, halved (1/2), quartered (1/4), and wedged (1/8) and stored in a domestic refrigerator (4 degrees C), in a clear plastic container (ca. 260-280 g). Results showed that there was a significant interaction between storage period and cut sizes on weight loss. Samples stored as whole lost the least amount of water. Weight loss for all cut sizes were less than 1.6%. The firmness of wax apple on day 9 of storage was significantly lower than their initial firmness. The whole fruit was found to be softer than the freshly cut samples. Total soluble solids content decreased with the time of storage, reduced from 7.6 to 6.2 degrees Brix as the storage period extended from day 0 to day 9 irrespective of cutting sizes. Titratable acidity increased significantly from day 0 to day 3 of storage for halved, quartered and wedged fruit. The concentration of ascorbic acid decreased significantly throughout the period of storage. Overall, results clearly showed that storage period markedly affected the physico-chemical properties of wax apples regardless of their cut sizes but not to the extent that the quality of fresh-cut wax apple was reduced.

Fraud is a significant ethical dilemma for businesses and harmful to the capital market participants. Financial reporting fraud is an intentional misstatement of financial information to mislead the financial statement users. It causes huge losses to the organizations, threatens the investors' confidence on the published financial statements and erodes the image of accounting profession. This descriptive paper attempts to explore the inclination level towards financial reporting fraud among the participants in the financial reporting process and to determine the effect of their personal background on such inclination level. Using a sample of 121 Muslim participants in the financial reporting process at Malaysian banking institutions, the findings indicate that the inclination level is low. The inclination level is only affected by the working experience at the present bank and the bank type. The findings provide insights to the banks' stakeholders on the inclination level of fraud among the participants in financial reporting process and are particularly useful to the top management of banking institutions for a better understanding on personal background items influencing fraud in financial reporting intention. Limitations and suggestions for future research conclude the paper.