In today's uncertain financial climate it is particularly important for entities to explain their financial performance relative to their expectations. Therefore, the paper analyzes the quality and quantity of management reporting in Germany's publicly traded MDAX and SDAX companies using a...

This paper discusses empirical evidence on the economic consequences of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union (EU) and provides suggestions on how future research can add to our understanding of these effects. Based on the explicitly...

This paper seeks to draw attention to a flaw in the firm’s Free Cash Flow model and related statement widely accepted in Corporate Finance. We argue that the common offset of any Current Liabilities against Current Assets distorts the FCF size, composition, and volatility, thereby misstating...

In this paper, we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the introduction of the IFRS has an impact on the timeliness of loss recognition. We test this hypothesis in a data set of public German firms that report according to German-GAAP and IFRS, respectively. The parallel use of the two accounting...

This paper examines how financial reporting regulations affect, and respond to, macroeconomic cycles by exploring a positive framework in which regulators subject to political pressures respond to cyclical demands by borrowers and lenders. We establish that, as economic conditions initially...

Consistent with the economics of crime approach, this paper finds that insider selling is decreasing in the perceived costs of potential private and public enforcement upon discovery of GAAP misstatements, and increasing in managerial private benefits as measured by the market reaction to the...

This paper examines why CFOs become involved in material accounting manipulations. We find that while CFOs bear substantial legal costs when involved in accounting manipulations, these CFOs have similar equity incentives to the CFOs of matched non-manipulation firms. In contrast, CEOs of...

After 1994, the Romania accounting regulation faced many important changes. Accounting regulation was issued in Romania before 1990, but nobody spoke about accounting principles. The presentation of accounting principles in the Romanian accounting regulation has been made recently. The...

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Sommer des Jahres 2004 am Fachbereich Wirtschaft der Hochschule Wismar als Diplomarbeit im Studiengang Wirtschaftsrecht angenommen. Sie befasst sich mit einem Thema, dem auf den ersten Blick wenig Bedeutung beigemessen wird, nämlich dem Ausweis des Markenwertes...

Aufgrund einer im Jahr 2002 erlassenen EU-Verordnung sind kapitalmarktorientierte Konzernmutterunternehmen seit dem 01.01.2005 zur Bilanzierung nach IFRS verpflichtet (vgl. Littkemann/Schulte/Kraft 2005: 285). Auch nicht kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmen haben aufgrund von Wahlrechten in der...