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according to IFRS and US-GAAP. Since economic goodwill is identical to the present value of future residual income, we examine … information required by IFRS and US-GAAP to evaluate a firms' goodwill can be used to design a performance measurement system …Purpose - This paper outlines the link between value creation, performance measurement and goodwill accounting …
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Using an institutional setting where GAAP is relatively unconstrained, we examine whether managers use their goodwill … a continuous dependent variable to find that accounting discretion is exercised through estimates of goodwill's economic … with managers using accounting techniques to reflect firms' investment opportunity sets (IOS). We find that the goodwill …
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This study's underlying premise is that current pension plan accounting has two important negative effects. First, it distorts the measurement of earnings and net worth in the short run, as well as the pattern of earnings over future periods. Second, this distortion can send incorrect signals to...
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. We conclude that rather than converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP …
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The objective of the IFRS for SMEs is to provide SMEs an attractive accounting alternative according to international …-sized entities in Germany. -- Accounting ; full IFRS ; IFRS ; IFRS for SMEs ; non-listed companies ; small and medium-sized entities …
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The paper analyses the effects of three sets of accounting rules for financial instruments - Old IAS before IAS 39 became effective, Current IAS or US GAAP, and the Full Fair Value (FFV) model proposed by the Joint Working Group (JWG) - on the financial statements of banks. We develop a...
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Financial accounting is rooted in national thoughts, traditions and institutional settings. As a consequence, accounting has developed heterogeneously over time and fulfilled contracting purposes in divergent national environments. Against this background, we argue that the ongoing process of...
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We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). In particular, we focus on the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from two basic factors: managing expected litigation...
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adoption of IFRS by the United States. In Part I (see Hail et al. 2010), we develop the conceptual framework for our analysis … and discuss economic factors driving the costs and benefits associated with IFRS adoption. In this part, we provide an … analysis of the political factors related to the possible U.S. adoption of IFRS, present several scenarios for the evolution of …
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for the effects of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) around the world at the time of …
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