André, Paul; Filip, Andrei; Paugam, Luc - HAL - 2013
We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture … controlling for potential shifts in unconditional conservatism and cost of capital after the adoption of IFRS. From a sample of 7 … for which impairment tests rely on unverifiable fair value estimates. We argue that IFRS are conceptually conditionally …