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accordance with EU-endorsed International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an effort to increase the comparability of … financial information across EU Member States. While some expect IFRS reporting to increase the comparability of financial … information across the EU, others argue that comparability is unlikely because IFRS implementation will vary conditional on …
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(IFRS) in 2005. The results indicate that impairment of goodwill is actually less value relevant than amortisation, but that …
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This research studies, through a content analysis of the comment letters to the IVSC's project on intangible assets fair value determination, the legitimacy of this professional body, or of the accounting associations, to develop measurement standards specific to this accounting concept. At...
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This paper examines how fair value accounting can create financial contagion among banks and therefore increase bank regulators' costs of protecting insured depositors. Prior research mainly focuses on the economic consequences of marking down, whereas I contribute to the literature by providing...
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predict the capital market effects of the new insurance accounting standard IFRS 4 Phase II, which will be introduced in 2018 … EV framework is limited and even decreasing since 2009. The current IFRS framework seem to have more explanatory power … for insurers' stock prices and returns in the current economic environment which casts doubt about benefits of IFRS 4 …
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Banking Supervision, in response to the introduction of the International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9), which … related to regulatory constraints implied by the application of IFRS 9. We further find that banks that adopted the CTA (CTA … CTA policy under the mandatory application of IFRS 9 …
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There is a popular belief that the confluence of bank capital rules and fair value accounting helped trigger the recent financial crisis. The claim is that questionable valuations of long term investments based on prices obtained from illiquid markets created a pro-cyclical effect whereby mark...
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We examine the effects of fair-value accounting (FVA) and historical-cost accounting (HCA) regimes on the ex-ante financing of projects by external investors. We formulate a model highlighting the relative merits and demerits of each accounting regime, in particular the sub-optimal continuations...
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(IFRS 3). The purpose of this study is to examine the association between purchased goodwill and market value of the firm by …
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A strong trend towards the implementation and use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) changes the …
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