The mandatory adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting information … of mandatory IFRS adoption on the comparability of financial accounting information around the world. Using two … comparability proxies based on De Franco et al. [2011], our results suggest that the overall comparability effect of mandatory IFRS …

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. …

We revisit evidence whether incentives or IFRS drive earnings quality changes, analyzing a large sample of German firms … influenced the decision to voluntarily adopt IFRS. However, regardless of the decision to voluntarily adopt IFRS, we find that … conditional conservatism increased under IFRS for both groups of adopters, while evidence does not suggest an increase in value …

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 …

The paper analyzes whether the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for … according to international standards. For this reason the analysis includes a comparison of the sections of the IFRS for SMEs … concerning consolidated financial statement accounting with Full-IFRS and the modernized German GAAP. -- Full-IFRS ; IFRS for …

The paper shows the ways of disclosing financial risks by IFRS 7 and certain types of sensitivity analysis. The … companies on Germany`s DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX are analyzed for the years 2007 and 2008. -- Risikoberichterstattung ; IFRS 7 … ; Disclosure ; Risk Management ; Monte-Carlo Simulation ; IFRS 7 …

according to IFRS. Furthermore it compares the accounting methods according to international standards with German GAAP …

mechanisms affect the anomaly. For the German experiment on voluntary adoption of IFRS our results confirm previous findings that …

The mandatory adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting information … of mandatory IFRS adoption on the comparability of financial accounting information around the world. Using two … comparability proxies based on De Franco et al. [2011], our results suggest that the overall comparability effect of mandatory IFRS …

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 …) various forms of controlling for fixed effects. We do not find evidence that IFRS and German-GAAP firms differ with respect to …