We investigate whether the comparability of the financial statements change following the switch from International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in substance (the content of IFRS) to IFRS in substance and form (IFRS as issued by the IASB). Therefore, while the substance of the accounting...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate financial statement comparability in the extractive industry. This paper focuses on the extractive industry because International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) contain limited guidance on the accounting treatment for exploration and evaluation...

type="main" <p>This paper examines the value relevance of earnings components where there is a mandatory requirement to report generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) earnings and non-GAAP earnings, and where the items to be eliminated from GAAP earnings are defined in detail. The setting...</p>

We investigate whether the special item anomaly in the U.S. exists in an environment where the separation of non-recurring items from earnings is mandated. We use South African data, as the separate disclosure of specific non-recurring items has been mandatory since 2000. Our results show that,...