Cazavan-Jeny, Anne; Jeanjean, Thomas - ESSEC Business School - 2003
Accounting for research and development (R&D) costs is an open issue. SFAS N°2 mandates that all R&D costs are …). Recent research papers (Healy et al., 2002; Lev and Sougiannis, 1996, 1999; Aboody and Lev, 1998, Zhao, 2002) show that … capitalization of R&D costs and software development costs is value relevant. However critics can be leveled at previous research …