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Whether fair value accounting should be used in financial reporting has been the subject of debate for many years. A key dimension to this debate is whether fair value earnings can provide information to financial statement users that is helpful in making their economic decisions. A criticism of...
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-year observations from European banks reporting under IFRS, in contrast to previous research conducted in the US, we find no overall …
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have adopted IFRS or US-GAAP. German companies do not tradition-ally fund pension plans externally. They therefore report …
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This paper examines whether and how the level of exposure to fair value accounting moderates the changes in the value relevance of equity book value and net income during a crisis period. Using a sample of European listed financial firms over 2005-2011, our analysis confirms prior literature...
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We examine whether fair value accounting applied to goodwill impairment leads to unintended consequences. Under the fair-value-based goodwill impairment test, a firm's market value is often used as an important reference point for determining whether goodwill is impaired. A below-one...
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I find that goodwill write-offs under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142 (SFAS 142) are associated with future expected cash flows as mandated by the standard. However, there are indications that goodwill write-offs lag behind the economic impairment of goodwill. Additional...
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Very often than not, business acquisition results in recognition of goodwill as the consideration paid to gain control of the acquiree is higher than the fair value of the net assets acquired to compensate for synergies which acquirer benefits from the business combination. Negative goodwill is...
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IFRS 13, adopted in 2013, introduced a general framework for fair value valuation of unquoted equity instruments. It … of such instruments, which meets these IFRS 13 requirements. This approach applies a concept of the most advantageous … according to the fair value concept compliant with IFRS 13. Additionally, this paper presents estimations of MAMD for the UK …
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