The accounting treatment of stock options issued to employees, not just those options issued to top executives, is one … of many issues in the accounting profession being challenged and changed today. The debate regarding how to account for … stock options has many nuances. For example, if stock options are a part of a compensation package, then their accounting …

. Prior research suggests that industry specialist auditors constrain accounting-based earnings management. But such actions … essay, I examine the association between the tightness of accounting standards and earnings management choices. Prior … studies suggest that managers switch from accounting-based earnings management to real activities manipulation in response to …

Adoption of international and U.S. financial accounting standards by leading German corporations presages a new era in … paper, we first introduce financial accounting standards boards, the evolution of U.S. pension accounting standards since … ERISA (1974), and the introduction of FASB 87. We emphasize the quiet campaign by national and international accounting …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how public sector accounting change is achieved ….Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a comparative historical approach in which early and late adopters of public sector accrual accounting are … described and contrasted. Actor-network theory is mobilised to consider how accrual accounting progressively became an …

The renaissance of accounting-based valuation models in the 1990s has primarily been triggered by the analyses of … accounting information as at valuation date. The derivation of the so called 'other information' has not been specified by Ohlson …