Purpose - This paper outlines the link between value creation, performance measurement and goodwill accounting according to IFRS and US-GAAP. Since economic goodwill is identical to the present value of future residual income, we examine the question of how accounting information gathered for...

Based on the notion that the effects of IFRS adoption are dependent on changes in the institutional environment, this paper analyses the effects of one prominent feature of IFRS: the accounting for research and development (R&D) under IAS 38. In our setting, IFRS adoption is accompanied by a...