We investigate the economic consequences of additional disclosure about assets with no active market in terms of liquidity, perception of information reliability and relevance. We use an experimental design: 181 MBA students are asked to value 24 investments. We manipulate the level of...

We examine whether managers' decisions to capitalize or expense R&D expenditures convey information about the future performance of the firm. Focusing on a French setting where managers can choose to capitalize R&D expenditures under certain circumstances, we find that, after controlling for...

Cette communication est une revue de la littérature sur la gestion du résultat. Deux résultats apparaissent : l'absence de monotonie stricte des incitations contrairement à la formulation naïve des prédictions de Watts & Zimmerman (1986) et la nécessité de prendre en compte des...

Nous étudions empiriquement la pertinence du traitement comptable de la R&D sur un échantillon de 95 sociétés françaises sur une période de 3 ans (1998-2000). Nous montrons que la R&D capitalisée est associée positivement aux rendements et au cours boursiers et agit donc comme un signal...

Au milieu des années 1990, de nombreux articles ont montré que la recherche comptable était très locale (Lukka and Kasanen, 1996; Panozzo, 1997; Carmona et al. 1999). Ce constat contraste avec l'internationalisation croissante de la profession comptable (normes IFRS, convergence US GAAP /IFRS,...)....

Cet article est consacré à la mesure et à l'analyse des déterminants de la compétence financière des conseils d'administration ou de surveillance des sociétés non financières du SBF 120. Les principaux rapports sur le gouvernement d'entreprise mettent l'accent soit sur l'indépendance...

We review the academic literature on the use of financial reporting information by capital providers. We classify our findings by investor type and by information objective. While most capital providers use accounting information, our survey indicates that they do so in a variety of ways with...

We use a unique and confidential database of 15,392 tax audits performed by the Croatian Tax Administration during the 2002–2006 period to examine the impact of task complexity, auditor experience, and auditor effort on audit performance. We provide external validation to prior experimental...

Author's abstract. We investigate the economic consequences of increasing financial report visibility, measured by the use of english as a reporting language for firms from non-English-speaking countries. We sample 113 firms that started publishing their annual report in English (in addition to...

In this paper, we use the investment fraud of Bernard Madoff to inquire into the possibilities and limits of an “intelligent accountability” in the context of financial decision making. Drawing primarily upon data related to U.S. Individual investors (interviews and letters), we investigate...