Research Question- What was the impact of the adoption of the new international accounting standards for leases IFRS 16 on the financial statements of the Greek companies that are listed on Athens Exchange? Motivation- The majority of the relevant literature worldwide has examined the effect of...

With global efforts to combat climate change, accountants from participating entities worldwide need to report the economic value of carbon credits and related assets in carbon markets. However, the absence of formal accounting guidelines allows the selection of accounting practices and...

The aim of this paper is to present some considerations about the (market) reality and the accounting. The considerations are some kind of a discussion, how accounting systems are linked by the feedback mechanism with managers. Various aspects of modern markets are presented. In particular, the...

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the fitness of national German (German Commercial Code - Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB)) and international (IAS and US-GAAP) accounting information, as well as European patent data to explain the market values of German manufacturing firms. For the...

On the basis of accounting and market data for firms and groups listed on German stock exchanges between 1997 and 2003, we show that the value relevance of R&D information under German accounting standards can be superior to that provided by US-GAAP and IAS. The results, obtained while...

Organisation internationale de droit privé qui tire sa légitimité normative du monde anglo-saxon et produit des informations à destination des investisseurs, l’IASC/IASB ne dispose d’aucun pouvoir coercitif pour faire appliquer les normes comptables qu’il émet. Il lui faut donc...

Cette communication cherche à étudier l’impact de l’introduction des normes IFRS sur le traitement comptable des actifs incorporels, dont le poids ne cesse de croître au sein des états financiers. Une étude théorique et empirique compare le traitement comptable des actifs incorporels...

L'IASB et le FASB ont formé, en 2003, un groupe de travail commun en vue de faire avancer le projet de création de normes de reporting de la performance financière. Intitulé à l'origine « Performance Reporting » et se référant à une conception étendue du résultat -- le comprehensive...

En s'inspirant de la normalisation comptable anglo-saxonne, la Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) propose un référentiel de publication volontaire d'informations sociétales. La transposition présente des limites qui rendent en fait ses principes inapplicables. Néanmoins il tend à s'imposer...

The paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D. In a two-period model, a monopolist decides on how much to invest in R&D and how much of that investment to capitalize, and then on each period's output. It is found that the firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and...