Voulgaris, Georgios; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos; … - In: The International Journal of Accounting 49 (2014) 4, pp. 479-514
We examine the effect of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) on the type of performance measures firms … use to evaluate and reward their managers. We show that post-IFRS firms decrease the weight of Earnings-per-Share (EPS …)-based performance measures in CEO pay contracts. We argue that IFRS add “noise” to accounting numbers which, based on optimal …