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Competitors often pay close attention to rivals' financial reports. For firms with high levels of proprietary information, competition may increase the costs of public disclosure. Theory suggests that such costs, which we refer to as the proprietary costs of financial reporting, may lead to...
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This paper studies how financial statement comparability affects the cost of capital and investor welfare. We show that the cost of capital decreases with comparability if and only if the quality of accounting standards is sufficiently high, thus supporting the relative importance of...
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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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We examine whether (and to what extent) accounting regulation intended to improve disclosure can lead to higher …, one under US GAAP and the other under IFRS, which have one key difference — while both changes mandate improvements to the … outcomes between these two changes. We find that the IFRS disclosure standard is effective at improving pension asset …
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This study examines the impact of cross-firm financial statement comparability on theregulatory oversight of financial reporting quality. Consistent with the notion that cross-firmcomparable accounting systems enhance the regulators' ability to evaluate financial reportingquality, we find that...
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This article investigates statement that IFRS have positive impact on the regulatory system in continental European … accounting systems in the Czech Republic. Steps of IFRS implementation are monitored and partial implementation of IFRS into … assumed that the impact of IFRS on accounting regulatory system in other continental European countries is similar. …
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The effect of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on the level of financial statements … comparability was investigated for Russia in the current article. Canada was chosen for comparison due to the close time frame of … IFRS adoption, which also allowed comparing the influence of IFRS adoption for both types of economies - well developed and …
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The term “audit style” is used to characterize the unique set of internal working rules of each Big 4 audit firm for the implementation of auditing standards, and the enforcement of GAAP within their clienteles. Audit style implies that two companies audited by the same Big 4 auditor,...
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The term “audit style” is used to characterize the unique set of internal working rules of each Big 4 audit firm for the implementation of auditing standards, and the enforcement of GAAP within their clienteles. Audit style implies that two companies audited by the same Big 4 auditor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007412
We find a positive effect of quasi-indexer ownership on financial statements comparability. Using the annual Russell 1000/2000 index reconstitution as an exogenous variation in quasi-indexer ownership, we show that the positive effect seems to be causal. We interpret our finding as evidence...
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