"One of our objectives in writing this book is to help students become skilled preparers and informed consumers of financial statement information. The financial reporting environment today is particularly challenging. Accountants, auditors, and financial analysts must not only know the...

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87 - Employers' Accounting for Pensions (SFAS No. 87) and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106 - Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits other than Pensions (SFAS No. 106) allow firms to compute the expected return on plan...

This paper examines a fundamental question of interest to researchers and regulators: Does the market treat disclosed financial statement information as if it is less reliable than information recognized in the body of the financial statements? Specifically, we compare the perceived reliability...