The focus of the paper is on identification of hidden patterns in the opinion of accounting professionals, in order to identify the deficiencies in the legal accounting regulations and to examine their perspective on international and legal accounting regulations. The data collected through the...

The current study examines the voluntary disclosures (provided in the U.S.) by U.S.-listed Asian companies. Our findings indicate that significantly fewer [greater] voluntary disclosures are provided by U.S.-listed Asian companies from countries which have a strict [less strict] mandatory...

Regulators such as the SEC and standard setting bodies such as the FASB and the IASB argue the case for the conceptual desirability of fair value measurement, notably on the relevance dimension. Recent standards on financial instruments and certain non-financial items adopt the new measurement...

A wave of accounting failures at the beginning of the century motivated the national stock exchanges to require firms to maintain a majority independent board of directors. Approximately 24% of firms were not already in compliance with the new listing requirements and so were forced to change....

An interpretation of the new standard (IFRS 9) on accounting for loan loss provisioning is that financial institutions are required to compute expected credit losses over a range of economic scenarios and then weigh them together according some probability based scheme. This poses substantial...

Based on a sample of 3,207 firm-year observations for the years 2005 to 2013, we investigate how stock-listed companies in France, Germany and the United Kingdom use two discretionary choices in their accounting for defined benefit pension plans under International Accounting Standard 19...

We investigate the impact of recurring fair value versus amortized cost measurement for accounting recognition purposes on the timeliness of insurers' other-than-temporary (OTT) impairments of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (NAMBS) around the 2007–2009 financial crisis....

Prudential regulation of financial institutions relies on asset values measured based on accounting standards. This paper examines how this regulation affects financial institutions' incentives to use Level 2 versus Level 3 fair value reporting and how their endogenous choice affects systemic...

I examine the effect of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on the accounting uniformity of financial statements for a sample of firms listed on Euronext. Using Taplin's (2004) uniformity index, I find that IFRS adoption enhances uniformity of financial statements of...

Purpose: This paper analyses what factors drive a company's decision to align financial and management accounting policies as a measure of integration of management accounting and financial accounting at the highest hierarchy levels of a company. Design/methodology/approach: Research hypotheses...