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Our paper aims to provide an updated description of the process of IFRS adoption in the E.U. and worldwide, pointing out its effects on the information presented in financial statements, on the markets efficiency and on the accounting harmonization. In order to achieve our goal, we have analyzed...
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The general framework of preparation and presentation of the financial statements as the national legislation, formulates a residual definitionof equity, respectively the right of the shareholders on the assets of anentity after deducting all debts. Thus equity represent the equivalentvalue of...
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Using a dataset covering 3 million commercial borrower financial statements, we document a substantial, nearly monotonic decline in banks’ use of attested financial statements (AFS) in lending over the past two decades. Two market forces help explain this trend. First, technological advances...
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The large variety of uses that accounting products take, as well as their wide range of informational needs require that certain criteria be established, with regards to the quality of accounting data, and these criteria must be fully met. The concept of
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The provision of transparent and useful information on market partici-pants and their transaction is essential for an orderly and efficient market, and it is one of the most important preconditions for imposing market discipline. Left to themselves, markets may not generate sufficient levels of...
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L'IASB et le FASB ont formé, en 2003, un groupe de travail commun en vue de faire avancer le projet de création de normes de reporting de la performance financière. Intitulé à l'origine « Performance Reporting » et se référant à une conception étendue du résultat -- le comprehensive...
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Although one may say that the components of financial statements maybe considered autonomous and independent elements, the whole accountingprocessing procedure ends with a set of financial statements that are closelyinterconnected from the information viewpoint. Therefore, the earnings are shown...
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Historically, the format of financial statements has varied from one country to another. Recently, due to the attractiveness of their capital markets, the strength of their accounting professions and the influence of their institutional investors, Anglo-American countries have seen the impact of...
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measurement error is more complicated as it can be related to whether valuations refer to exit value, as postulated by the IASB …, or deprival value, which is more closely related to firm-specific valuation. Measurement error is magnified in the income … and makes the systematic application of fair value accounting fraud with difficulty there, would seem to be much more …
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Using a Verreccia [1983]-type model, we study the optimal voluntary disclosure strategy of a manager with private information that helps the market interpret financial information the firm is required to report. In equilibrium, the manager’s disclosure strategy enhances upward or mitigates...
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