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accounting conservatism) and for an aggregated measure for the previous three proxies of FRQ. The empirical evidence shows that … of IFRS, the accounting system used in the country and the influence of the economic cycle. …
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validity test on accounting research. If the economic magnitude of the study's proxy for quality on firm value is “too large …
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-based accounting standards named FRS. We hypothesize that under the new set of accounting standards, the quality of earnings reported …-year period after the adoption of the new set of accounting standards, our study finds that the adoption of FRS is relatively … new set of accounting standards …
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Profit forecasts are rarely disclosed in the UK except in prospectuses, circulars and during takeover bids. There are few regulations governing the content of profit forecasts. Under stock exchange rules these forecasts must be reported on by both reporting accountants and the merchant bankers...
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Aim/purpose - This paper aims at investigating whether the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers implementation in Poland has affected earnings management that uses discretion in revenue recognition to avoid losses and earnings decreases....
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We ask whether the quality of internal information matters for investment decisions. We predict that investment is more sensitive to internal profit signals and less sensitive to external price signals when managers have higher quality internal information. Consistent with recent theoretical and...
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We examine analysts' GAAP earnings forecasts and illustrate their usefulness in two prominent research settings. First, we find that the availability of GAAP forecasts has increased dramatically since 2003, and they are now available for most I/B/E/S-covered firms. Next, we utilize GAAP...
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Unbiased accounting is supposed to provide perfect economic information to decision makers. We identify three notions … of unbiased accounting in the literature, promoting return-, cost-, or value-disclosure as guiding principle and evaluate … them based on the criterion of informational sufficiency. We show that the unbiased accounting regimes systematically …
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the sensitivity of CEO turnover to accounting earnings and how the impact of IFRS adoption varies with country …-level institutions and firm-level incentives. We find that CEO turnover responds more to a firm's accounting performance after adoption … the change in turnover-to-earnings sensitivity directly to accounting changes due to IFRS adoption and find a stronger …
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We examine whether the complexity of mandatory accounting disclosures prompts managers to voluntarily disclose adjusted … mitigate informational problems arising from accounting complexity. Using the metadata in XBRL filings, we construct measures … of accounting complexity that map directly to the mandated standards applied in firms' financial statement filings. We …
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