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using ABC or CVO. Such failure also leads to distorting accounting numbers away from economic costs. …
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-held firms that include 30 accounting ratios and non-accounting information on size, age, industry and geographic regions … default negatively. The analysis of the joint influence of size and accounting ratios shows that size significantly alters the … relation and the magnitude of the marginal influence of the accounting ratios on default. Our findings also indicate that …
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Financial Reporting Standard No3 (FRS 3): Reporting Financial Performance, which came into force in 1993, increased UK firms' discretion in classifying exceptional items. We examine how this increased discretion affected their use of classificatory smoothing and inter-temporal smoothing through...
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In seeking to replace accounting conventions by concepts in the pursuit of principles-based standards, the FASB … welcome the use of theories by accounting standard setters and practitioners, if theories are considered in their entirety … and standards. Our conclusions about how accounting concepts and conventions should be related differ from those of the …
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management accounting from the founding of the Institute to today. It considers a number of immediate challenges to management … accountants and surveys a range of issues and challenges that will likely affect management accounting thought and practice in the …
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Prior to 2001, international accounting standards (IAS) were insufficiently attractive to gain the support of US … 2001–2002. Emerging opinion increasingly upheld principles-based rather than rules-based accounting standards in the face … infrastructure for the international accounting standards setter had to be created. As this was taking shape, the globalisation of …
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have their accounts audited on an annual basis. Empirical estimation of a logit model controlling for accounting cash- flow … predictive ability of going-concern opinion over and above accounting and nonaccounting variables for the estimation and hold …
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Despite calls to link management accounting more closely to management (Jonsson, 1998), much is still to be learned … about the role of accounting information in managerial work. This lack of progress stems partly from a failure to … the detailed practices through which accounting information is actually used by managers in their work. In this paper I …
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In this study I examine how analysts process nonfinancial information And how this is affected by the patterns of firms' non-financial information disclosures. More specifically, I examine the association between analyst earnings forecast errors and the persistence of nonfinancial disclosures,...
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The pooling method of accounting for business combinations was banned in the USA in 2001 and by the International … Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in 2004. Although the US ban was controversial, the IASB ban received much less opposition. We … proposals can be so different is increasingly important as efforts to converge US generally accepted accounting principles and …
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