This chapter analyzes the role of financial accounting in the German financial system. It starts from the common … perception that German accounting is rather uninformative. This characterization is appropriate from the perspective of an arms … perspective is adopted. The German accounting system exhibits several arrangements that privately communicate information to …

patterns of loan loss provisions are, in part, attributable to the rules of accounting for credit risk. It compares the … regimes. The analysis of the accounting rules is combined with an analysis of incentives for under-provisioning and/or over … accounting rules should be changed to require a more comprehensive accounting for expected losses that can be measured reliably …

Purpose – This paper aims to compare the quality of financial reporting (or accounting quality) of firms cross … association with accounting data. Accounting quality is associated with less earnings management, more timely loss recognition and … higher stock price/returns association with accounting data. Findings – The authors find that there is no difference in …

about the usefulness of international accounting data and about the adoption effects of a change to such accounting …

patterns of loan loss provisions are, in part, attributable to the rules of accounting for credit risk. It compares the … regimes. The analysis of the accounting rules is combined with an analysis of incentives for under-provisioning and/or over … accounting rules should be changed to require a more comprehensive accounting for expected losses that can be measured reliably …

Purpose – Accounting and decision making rely heavily on forecasts. For several reasons, we should expect ongoing … assumption, that companies are generally able to make accurate forecasts, including those for accounting purposes. This …

This chapter analyzes the role of financial accounting in the German financial system. It starts from the common … perception that German accounting is rather "uninformative". This characterization is appropriate from the perspective of an arm … perspective is adopted. The German accounting system exhibits several arrangements that privately communicate information to …