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Financial reporting around the time of IPOs is consistent with listed firms reporting more conservatively than previously as private firms, consistent with the results in Ball and Shivakumar (2005). We hypothesize that IPO firms supply the higher quality financial reports demanded by public...
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Lang, Raedy and Wilson (2006) examine the properties of U.S. GAAP accounting numbers provided by cross-listed firms and …, and value relevance, LRW show that accounting data are not comparable across cross listed and U.S. firms, despite the fact … that all firms use the same accounting standards. In this paper, I discuss how these findings advance the literature and …
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Financial reporting around the time of IPOs is consistent with listed firms reporting more conservatively than previously as private firms, consistent with the results in Ball and Shivakumar (2005). We hypothesize that IPO firms supply the higher quality financial reports demanded by public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766778
This study examines whether the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union (EU) in 2005 reduces the cost of equity capital. Using a sample of 6,456 firm-year observations of 1,084 EU firms during the 1995 to 2006 period, I find evidence that,...
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Exchange Commission to reconcile U.S. and international accounting standards. In each case, a distinct dynamic of regulatory …
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The convergence process of national accounting practices into international standards requires significant changes on … accounting regulation. Brazil has many examples of that: the creation of the Brazilian Accounting Standards Committee (CPC), the … International Accounting Standards Board), translated by CPC and approved by CVM. It is expected that accountants and auditors are …
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After many years of debating the appropriate treatment for goodwill, Malaysia finally has an enforceable accounting …
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This paper seeks to determine the impact of NASB Act 2003 on compliance with accounting standards on employee …
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We construct a large sample of 21,608 firm-years with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adopters and non-adopters from 34 countries over the 1998-2004 period, and evaluate differences in the implied cost of capital between the IFRS adopters and the non-adopters. We also...
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the European Union. Despite the importance of IFRS in the context of global accounting standards harmonization, little is …
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