Purpose of the article: This study examines the comparative abilities of accrual-based and cash-based accounting … ascertaining, by means of available statistics, the comparative predictive abilities of accrual-based and cash-based accounting … strictly to the provisions of accounting standards so as to enhance reliability and decision-usefulness of financial …

To be useful for decision-making accounting information needs to be of high quality. This article examines how tax … accounting rules may impact the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in financial statements. The simulation … model reveals that significant distortions occur in accounting information due to the choice of depreciation period and …

accounting conservatism) and for an aggregated measure for the previous three proxies of FRQ. The empirical evidence shows that … of IFRS, the accounting system used in the country and the influence of the economic cycle. …

validity test on accounting research. If the economic magnitude of the study's proxy for quality on firm value is “too large …

The article introduces the theoretical foundations of the author’s original concept of accounting engineering. We … assume a theoretical premise whereby accounting engineering is understood as a system of accounting practice utilising … differences in economic events resultant from the use of divergent accounting methods. Unlike, for instance, creative or …

This paper examines the association between conservatism and the value relevance of accounting information over the … 1975 through 2004 period. We measure conservatism using approaches developed in Penman and Zhang, The Accounting Review 77 …:237–264, (2002) and Beaver and Ryan, Journal of Accounting Research 38:127–148, (2000) and value relevance using (1) adjusted R2 from …

Pension accounting is anything but conservative since earnings can be protected from actuarial gains and losses. This …

We examine time-series variations in accounting conservatism in the Japanese market. Previous studies have found that … the Japanese market has low accounting conservatism. Over the last 30 years, however, the Japanese market has experienced … significant institutional changes. Thus, we examine whether accounting conservatism in the Japanese market varied over the period …

Since the late 1980s, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has implemented several new fair value accounting rules … do not consider the net income effects of fair value accounting. The fair value hierarchy of Statement of Financial … Accounting Standard No. 157 implies that valuation of level 1 and level 2 instruments is subject to observable market inputs …

LaFond and Watts (2008) provide evidence that information asymmetry might be a determinant of accounting conservatism … accounting conservatism might be wrong. However, there is a trend in moving away from conservative accounting. The typical … example is IFRS adoption. Therefore, this paper studies information asymmetry and accounting conservatism under IFRS adoption …