The European Accounting Association (EAA) Financial Reporting Standards Committee (FRSC) provided a response to the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB's) 2013 Discussion Paper (DP) on completing and revising its Conceptual Framework. The response consisted of a literature-based...

In seeking to replace accounting conventions by concepts in the pursuit of principles-based standards, the FASB/IASB joint project on the conceptual framework has grounded its approach on a well-known definition of income by Hicks. We welcome the use of theories by accounting standard setters...

Revenue recognition and measurement can conflict with liability recognition and measurement. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they conflict. We demonstrate that the conflict most generally arises over deciding how to treat...

The ASB, FASB and IASB all have on their agendas a major project on revenue recognition in financial statements. Methods of revenue recognition and measurement can conflict with methods of liability recognition and measurement. We explore here (by reference to the examples of a magazine...

This article examines the prospects for the International Accounting Standards (IAS) based on a discussion held by U.S. and British academics in August 2001. Participants recognized several key challenges to widespread implementation of IAS. These include the need to improve the quality of...

Our analytical description of how banks’ responses to asset price changes can result in procyclical leverage reveals that for banks with a binding regulatory leverage constraint, absent differences in regulatory risk weights across assets, leverage is not procyclical. For banks without a...

Our analytical description of how banks’ responses to asset price changes can result in procyclical leverage reveals that for banks with a binding regulatory leverage constraint, absent differences in regulatory risk weights across assets, leverage is not procyclical. For banks without a...

Historical enquiry reveals how ideas mutate. This account of the ideas underpinning how fair value accounting (FVA) drifted into corporate financial reporting shows that a primary lesson of business history is that we ignore history at our peril, that frequently we encourage the recall of...