Companies have used off balance sheet (OBS hereafter) arrangements responsibly, and irresponsibly, for some time (Wayman, 2002). These sorts of transactions were permissible under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and tax laws so that companies could finance business ventures by...

The article deals with the author's approach to the analysis of corporate financial statements as a tool of financial management in modern conditions, which is based on the concept of compromise between risk and profitability, is characterized by universality and relative simplicity, involving...

Der Einfluss der Rechnungslegung auf den Kapitalmarkt wir mittels verschiedener Ansätze empirisch untersucht. Insbesondere die Auswirkungen der Übernahme internationaler Rechnungslegungsstandards ist in den vergangenen Jahren in den Mittelpunkt der Forschung gerückt....

One objective of IFRS is to have comparable financial statements, including their presentations, between companies and over time. However, IFRS do not prescribe a particular format for the presentation of the income statement. Some empirical studies show some variety relating to income statement...

In this paper, I draw parallels between the literatures on the effects of law on the financial development of countries and on the effects of accounting standards on financial reporting outcomes. My central thesis is that these literatures are complementary in terms of what they have to say...

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...

Given voiced concerns with the alleged complexity of IFRS, this paper investigates determinants of material errors in IFRS financial statements. For a matched sample of firms censured by the German DPR/BaFin enforcement mechanism for producing erroneous IFRS financial statements, we investigate...