Showing 1 - 10 of 1,222
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765358
apportionment and equity-based taxes. The main research questions relate to empirical research related to the micro and macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470701
composition per category are analysed. A specific look on the classification of equity instruments as well as potential changes in … maturity of long term investments in loans and bonds are taken. It can be shown that the equity investments usually are not … transition impact from the incurred loss to the expected loss model with a focus on the allocation of assets to the newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861972
The adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting might become more comparable across countries. This expectation is opposed to an alternative view that stresses the importance of incentives in shaping accounting information. We provide early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663374
We study a sample of Continental European firms for changes in the sensitivity of their CEO turnover to their foreign peers' accounting performance around the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find a post-adoption increase in the use of Relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695764
test whether firms with more influential non-equity stakeholders provide more valuation-useful financial accounting … information. As non-equity stakeholders in general face higher transaction costs when diversifying unsystematic risk compared to … equity stakeholders and as stewardship-related risks should be at least in part unsystematic, I expect the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693060
In this paper, we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the introduction of the IFRS has an impact on the timeliness of loss recognition. We test this hypothesis in a data set of public German firms that report according to German-GAAP and IFRS, respectively. The parallel use of the two accounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009660273
A roadblock exists between International Financial Reporting Standards, (IFRS) and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Standards, (US GAAP) in the area of acceptable methods of inventory valuation. IFRS recognizes the First In First Out Method, FIFO, and the Weighted Average Method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114560
This paper explores determinants of tangible long-lived asset impairments under US GAAP and IFRS. Using a sample covering 26 countries, we document that US GAAP impairments are more related to macroeconomic factors consistent with the built-in delay in reporting impairments under two-step...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872241