Motivated by the European Union (EU) decision to mandate application of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to the consolidated financial statements of all EU listed firms (Regulation (EC) 1606/2002), starting in December 2005, we compare the value relevance of accounting...

Intangible assets are regarded as the future value drivers of company performance. However hardly anything is known about the actual importance and influence of intangible assets. To fill this gap we analyze the German stock market index DAX and accomplish a survey of the German Certified Public...

We conduct two experiments with experienced accountants to investigate how fair value accounting affects managers' real economic decisions. In Experiment 1, we find that participants are more likely to make sub-optimal decisions (e.g., forgo economically sound hedging opportunities) when...