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This study finds that the requirement of ASC 842 for firms to capitalize operating leases in financial statements beginning in 2019 resulted in firms affected by the standard reducing existing debt amounts on average between 7% and 10% relative to unaffected firms. We also find that firms with...
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This study examines whether application of IFRS by non-US firms results in accounting amounts comparable to those … resulting from application of US GAAP by US firms. IFRS firms have greater accounting system and value relevance comparability … with US firms when IFRS firms apply IFRS than when they applied domestic standards. Comparability is greater for firms that …
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regulatory demands. Recent actions by the European Commission relating to IFRS 9 and proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress to …
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We find that the adjustments to net income resulting from mandatory 2005 adoption of IFRS in Europe are relevant to … income adjustment and adjustments relating to several individual IFRS standards for these two types of firms and across major …' assessment of the relevance of IFRS accounting amounts. Despite these differences, we find that investors in all firms, except …
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Amendment of IAS 39 by the IASB in 2008 provided an option to reclassify investments from fair value to historical cost. Whereas this option was available to all firms, it was particularly relevant to banks. We predict that “too important to fail” (TITF) banks took less advantage of this...
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This study investigates the determinants of firms' decision to impair goodwill under IFRS. Our empirical analysis is … where firms apply IFRS. We specifically investigate which role national enforcement systems play for firms' decisions …
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This study investigates the determinants of goodwill impairment decisions by firms applying IFRS based on a …
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