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Information Content of Internal Control Weaknesses: The Evidence from Japan
Nishizaki, Riku; Takano, Yudai; Takeda, Fumiko - In: The International Journal of Accounting 49 (2014) 1, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates how capital markets in a code-law country, Japan, react to the disclosure of internal control weaknesses (ICW). The Japanese government attempted to implement a more concise, efficient, and, thus, less strict internal control reporting system than Section 404 of the...
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Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance
Hermalin, Benjamin E.; Weisbach, Michael S. - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2010
In public-policy discussions about corporate disclosure, more is typically judged better than less. In particular, better disclosure is seen as a way to reduce the agency problems that plague firms. We show that this view is incomplete. In particular, our theoretical analysis shows that...
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IFRS for SMEs: Eine Alternative für den Einzelabschluss aus Sicht des deutschen Mittelstandes?
Henselmann, Klaus; Klein, Martin; Wiese, Maren - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The objective of the IFRS for SMEs is to provide SMEs an attractive accounting alternative according to international …
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Knowing What Others Know: Common Knowledge, Accounting, and Capital Markets
Sunder, Shyam NMI - School of Management, Yale University - 2001
lies at the heart of accounting and capital markets research, these new developments have had only a faint echo in these … valuation, managerial control, auditing and information systems. Such accounting and business applications will also make … knowledge originated. This paper is an overview of common knowledge and its actual and potential applications to accounting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005586947
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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?
Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009
The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair …-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least …, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we assess these arguments and examine the role of fair-value accounting in the financial …
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The crisis of fair value accounting: Making sense of the recent debate
Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009
The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This … accounting standards, be it IFRS or U.S. GAAP. Third, historical cost accounting (HCA) is unlikely to be the remedy. There are a …
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Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock
Leuz, Christian; Schrand, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper examines the link between disclosure and the cost of capital. We exploit an exogenous cost of capital shock created by the Enron scandal in Fall 2001 and analyze firms' disclosure responses to this shock. These tests are opposite to the typical research design that analyzes cost of...
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On the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward leveraged buyout transactions implementation during private equity investment in conditions of resonant absorptio...
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156987
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On the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward leveraged buyout transactions implementation during private equity investment in conditions of resonant absorptio...
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107335
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On the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward leveraged buyout transactions implementation during private equity investment in conditions of resonant absorptio...
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111186