Analysis of company financial statements is a topic that is well covered in the financial literature. Unfortunately, the interpretation of the analysis is often neglected as a scientific approach to interpretation seems to be elusive. This paper attempts to provide a methodology whereby insight...

The article deals with the author's approach to the analysis of corporate financial statements as a tool of financial management in modern conditions, which is based on the concept of compromise between risk and profitability, is characterized by universality and relative simplicity, involving...

Obwohl steuerliche Wertansätze für ökonomische Entscheidungen eines breiten Adressatenkreises bedeutsam sein können, sind sie für externe Bilanzadressaten weitgehend unbekannt. So wäre beispielsweise im Bereich der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre die Durchführung empirischer Studien...

Assessing the discriminative power of rating systems is an important question to banks and to regulators. In this article we analyze the Cumulative Accuracy Profile (CAP) and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) which are both commonly used in practice. We give a test-theoretic...

This paper describes the first thorough analysis of the interest risk of German banks on an individual bank level. We develop a new method that is based on time series of accountingbased data to quantify the interest risk of banks and apply it to analyze the German banking system. We find...

In today's uncertain financial climate it is particularly important for entities to explain their financial performance relative to their expectations. Therefore, the paper analyzes the quality and quantity of management reporting in Germany's publicly traded MDAX and SDAX companies using a...

The business reporting standard XBRL offers the opportunity to easily extract and analyze a sufficient number of monetary items out of single annual reports for statistical analysis purposes. Using XBRL 10-K reports filed with the SEC EDGAR system, we derive first digit distributions for single...