This study investigates whether the 2009 German Accounting Law Modernization Act has affected the reporting and … accounting practices of German private firms. In reforming German accounting standards, numerous accounting options were deleted …, several accounting rules were transferred from IFRS to German GAAP with some modifications, and disclosure requirements were …

current accounting scandals. This paper aims at empirically showing which factors affect earnings management. Design …. These factors are the applied accounting standard, the industry sector and the country of official quotation. Although … intervals differ from the total population. Most noteworthy is that by adoption of principle-based accounting standards (IFRS …

This study examines whether accounting quality changed following a switch from U.S. GAAP to IFRS. Using a sample of … German high tech firms that transitioned to IFRS from U.S. GAAP in 2005, we find that accounting numbers under IFRS generally … addition, after analyzing the accounting quality of firms that applied IFRS throughout the entire sample period, we find that …

changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK … simultaneous addition of accounting and macroeconomic variables in an extended model, which indicates a significant rise in the … accounting variables and share prices in common law countries like the UK. Nevertheless, the implications of our findings lie in …

Purpose: This paper analyses what factors drive a company's decision to align financial and management accounting … policies as a measure of integration of management accounting and financial accounting at the highest hierarchy levels of a …. Practical implications: Companies have to decide whether, and to what extent, to integrate financial and management accounting …

current accounting scandals. This paper aims at empirically showing which factors affect earnings management …. These factors are the applied accounting standard, the industry sector and the country of official quotation. Although … intervals differ from the total population. Most noteworthy is that by adoption of principle-based accounting standards (IFRS …

avoidance, and big bath accounting. Using a sample of German firms listed on DAX30, MDAX, and SDAX through 2007 to 2012 we … when they experience a loss, indicating that firms engage in big bath accounting through provisions. Further, we find …

most were not even familiar with basic accounting methods. These local managers created internal management problems and …