Based on the current U.S. GAAP, internally developed intangibles are not included in reported assets. Omission of an increasingly important class of assets reduces the usefulness and relevance of financial statement analysis, conducted using book value. Recent studies attempt to overcome this...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, die betriebswirtschaftlichen Anforderungen an ein Risikomanagement darzustellen und mit den nationalen und internationalen (teilweise gesetzlichen) Anforderungen sowie Prüfungsstandards zu vergleichen. Dabei ist zu untersuchen, ob bereits mit der...

High oil prices are normally expected to stimulate exploration and the development of new oil and gas fields. But over the last few years, financial analysts have focused strongly on shortterm accounting return (RoACE) for benchmarking and valuation, and this has led to high capital discipline...

The internal rate of return (IRR) is often used by managers and practitioners for investment decisions. Unfortunately, it has serious flaws: among others, (i) multiple real-valued IRRs may arise, (ii) complex-valued IRRs may arise, (iii) the IRR is, in general, incompatible with the net present...

In this paper, we investigate how firm reporting incentives and institutional factors affect accounting quality in firms from 26 countries. We exploit a unique multi country setting where firms are required to comply with the same set of international reporting standards. We develop an approach...

The purpose of this research is to examine the non-financial key performance indicators contem- plated in Directive 2014/95/EU through the prism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To do this, the presence of the indicators contemplated in the United Nations 2030 Agenda in the...

The digital revolution is changing everyday business and creating new technologies and tools that allow companies flexibility and simplicity in doing business and increase business performance. The digital age creates new concepts that also affect accounting processing, which presents new...

Being able to separate temporary global macroeconomic influences - caused by fluctuations in exchange rates, interest rates and inflation - from intrinsic performance - related to a superior product, production process or management - is crucial to the assessment of the development of a firm’s...

Transnational regulations, often established by private bodies, play a large and important role in the international political economy. This paper makes two contributions to the literature on transnational regulation. First, governments and international organization often legitimate the...

Information technology (IT) is all-pervading, and as an infrastructure, it is likely to mold institutional quality. As such, we examine whether IT availability and use moderate the relationship between country-level institutional quality and firm performance. Using the Economic Freedom Index of...