Au cours de la précédente décennie, le développement considérable des stock-options comme instrument de rémunération incitative a posé, aux Etats-Unis puis au niveau international, le problème de la « reconnaissance » comptable de ces produits dérivés. En effet, n’engendrant aucun...

Le colloque « Transmission de l’entreprise à titre gratuit : quelle sécurité fiscale ? », organisé en juin 2003 par l’IDEFS (Université de Paris Dauphine), l’ASMEP et la Semaine juridique, sur le thème de l’évaluation des entreprises non cotées, a eu pour objet de confronter la...

This study examines the effects of customer satisfaction on analysts' earnings forecast errors. Based on a sample of analysts following companies measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), we find that customer satisfaction reduces earnings forecast errors. However, analysts...

This article looks at the usefulness of measuring a company's wealth and net income using the fair value method. In this regard, the key question--is fair value relevant?--can be analysed as follows: do fair value "accounting numbers" provide a better estimate of the value of a company and the...

In 2003, the IASB and the US FASB formed a Joint International Group (JIG) whose objective was to carry out a project originally untitled « Performance Reporting » establishing new international financial reporting standards for performance reporting. By envisaging the use of a comprehensive...

Probability weighting is one of the cornerstones of decision-making theories accommodating gambling preferences. This paper examines its relevance to explaining employee stock option exercise behavior. We characterized the optimal exercise policy for a representative employee with Rank-Dependent...

Using a sample of firms from France, where the law requires use of two auditors, we examine the effect of auditor pair composition on overall measures of unconditional and conditional conservatism, as well as on a specific measure of conditional conservatism, i.e., impairment loss. We use game...

Financial valuation methods use additive aggregation operators. But a patrimony should be regarded as an organized set, and additivity makes it impossible for these aggregation operators to formalize such phenomena as synergy or mutual inhibition between the patrimony’s components. This paper...