We examine whether income tax disclosures under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are useful for predicting changes in future earnings and cash flows, and whether such disclosures are more or less useful than disclosures made under U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles...

As of January 1, 2013, most of the world financial market economies are using International Reporting Standards (IFRS) as the required framework for financial statements. A non-comprehensive listing includes the European Union Countries, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. In the United...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 conferred upon the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) the authority to recognize as “‘generally accepted' for purposes of the securities laws, any accounting principles established by a standard setting body” provided that the standard setting...

As of January 1, 2011, most of the world financial market economies are using International Reporting Standards (IFRS) as the required framework for financial statements. A non-comprehensive listing includes the European Union Countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the United States,...

We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of financial reports to users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an attempt to find out whether current practices satisfy users' needs of information and the extent to which these needs have been satisfied by the current disclosure...

The research aims at observing the actual effects on companies' consolidated financial statements of the accounting treatment for goodwill as provided for by IAS/IFRS accounting standards. For this purpose, it focuses on the relevance of goodwill values in companies' accounts (which is mainly...

This paper attempts to re-examine the decision of Nigeria to begin a phased adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as from 2012.Certain emerging issues have made this important. They include researches on the effects of IFRS from the perspective of early adopters, the...

An important application for financial accounting theory is in accounting standards, for which clarity of conceptual foundation can be viewed as essential in addressing the practical complexities of determining financial position and financial performance. Viewed from this perspective, the...