In this article, we investigate the deregulation efforts resulting from the 2015 transposition of the EU’s Transparency Directive into German law and analyze whether a reduction in the minimum content requirements for quarterly reporting increases information asymmetries and decreases firm...

The European Union (EU) is built on the federalist principle of subsidiarity, which we consider in the policy field of financial reporting. We attempt to answer the question, whether the current accounting regulation in Europe is sensibly balanced between centralized and decentralized decision...

In many countries, not only one but several sets of accounts have to be prepared and disclosed by (holding) companies. This paper investigates the possibly different economic functions of these sets of accounts by looking at the German dual financial reporting system, in which company (single)...

This paper inquires into recent changes of accounting regulation in six OECD countries: Germany, France, England, USA, Canada and Japan. Having formerly been embedded into different institutional environments, accounting systems varied widely in the heyday of the interventionist nation state....

In recent years, accounting regulation has been internationalized with the extensive use and adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by nation-states, which points at least to a formal convergence between accounting regulatory systems. However, major differences between...

Since 2002 company law requires listed German corporations to declare their degree of conformity to the German Corporate Governance Code (GCGC). We examine whether there is a pricing effect connected to the declared degree of compliance for a sample of (big) publicly traded German companies...

The article analyzes the use of accounting information in Russia. We assess reporting behaviour in the lending process for a sample of Russian companies in the years 1999-2004 and postulate that Russian companies manage their earnings in order to avoid showing losses when applying for bank...

In dem Beitrag wird der Wandel der Staatlichkeit in fünf Politikfeldern analysiert: in der Rechnungslegung, der Bildungspolitik, der Gesundheitspolitik, der Arbeitsmarktpolitik und innerhalb des Gesamtrahmens wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Maßnahmen. Die vergleichende Analyse unterschiedlicher...

Die Krise der Umlagefinanzierung der sozialen Sicherung, insbesondere der Alterssicherung, lässt die Forderung nach einem Wechsel auf kapitalgedeckte Systeme stärker werden. Diese werden in der Regel als weniger anfällig gegenüber demographischen Veränderungen angesehen. Allerdings sehen...

Angesichts der aktuellen US-amerikanischen Bilanzskandale erscheint die Bilanzierung nach US-GAAP den europäischen Regeln unterlegen. Nach Meinung von Dr. Joachim Schindler und Dr. Anne Schurbohm, KPMG, sind die Bilanzierungsstandards der US-GAAP nicht für eine weltweite Anwendung geeignet....