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We conducted a field study of the process by which a company and prospective auditors court each other and enter an engagement. The Request-for-Proposal (RFP) process we observed had been triggered by an audit partner rotation and governed by recent legislation empowering the audit committee to...
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use of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) by U.S. Companies. We comment on five key issues raised by the … achieve the stated goals of comparability and consistency of financial reporting on a global basis. We favor allowing U …
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statements prepared in accordance with international financial reporting standards (IFRS) without reconciliation to U.S. GAAP …
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issues. In many cases, we may need a good enough (even arbitrary) standard that coordinates our reporting choices, while at … reporting dilemmas: stocks and flows, ex-ante and ex post, conventions and economic substance, and evolution and design by … suggest that financial reporting would benefit from a willingness to pay attention to both sides, and balance the reliability …
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reporting suggests that balancing them with community’s social norms may be a better option. “True and fair” override of written … standards could serve as the moral compass of financial reporting …
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reporting suggests that balancing them with community's social norms may be a better option. “True and fair” override of written … standards could serve as the moral compass of financial reporting …
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reporting get caught in the standardization project, replacing norms of corporate and professional behaviour by written rules … corporate governance? I argue that heavy reliance on the codification of financial reporting has been a wrong path. A shift from …
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The remarks in this paper consist of two parts. The first part concerns the linkages established in the three excellent papers among accounting, corporate governance, and market discipline. The second part discusses the possible uses and abuses of market discipline to define and develop...
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This study considers accounting in the new information economy. The basic framework of accounting for firms reflects a set of contracts and it helps define, implement and enforce these contracts. This framework is stable, and unlikely to change soon. However, the new information technology has...
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