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Although conceptual frameworks of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board identify relevance and faithful representation as the fundamental qualitative characteristics of useful information, prior research suggests that revenue recognition...
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In this study, we examine whether banks' use of the loan loss provision (LLP) to manage earnings is associated with 1) the extent to which banks hold assets subject to fair value reporting and 2) the use of an industry specialist auditor. We find that banks with a greater proportion of assets...
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We examine whether income tax disclosures under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are useful for …)-to-net income (i.e., the tax-book ranking) is useful for predicting changes in future earnings and cash flows under both IFRS and U ….S. GAAP. However, the usefulness of this ratio differs between IFRS firms and U.S. GAAP firms only following the adoption of …
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We contribute to the debate about the relative benefits and costs of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS … flows differ for firms reporting under IFRS versus firms reporting under United States Generally Accepted Accounting …,832 firm-year observations drawn from 33 countries from 2002 through 2008, we find that positive earnings reported under IFRS …
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This paper studies how firm disclosure activity affects the relation between current annual stock returns, contemporaneous annual earnings and future earnings. Our results show that firms with relatively more informative disclosures "bring the future forward" so that current returns reflect more...
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We examine the relation between the transparency of disclosures about activity in valuation allowance and reserve accounts and accruals-based earnings management. We classify disclosures as being transparent if they provide detailed information about activity in the allowance and reserve...
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In this study, we examine the effect of accrual-based earnings management on the association between managers' earnings forecast errors and accruals, which we label “managers' accrual-related forecast bias.” We build on extensive research which finds that managers engage in accrual-based...
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We provide evidence suggesting that managers use financial statement misstatements which improve reported results to facilitate acquisitions. Specifically, we find that firms misstating their financial statements are more likely to make stock-based acquisitions, but not cash-based acquisitions,...
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