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...

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

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...

This paper deals with issues of how to take on the responsibility of the auditor, especiallyin this time of crisis that hits the whole society. Significant role of financial auditor and the lies that theauditor is unable to give reasonable assurance that financial statement are not tainted by...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The major financial statements are designed to provide a picture of theoverall financial position and performance of the business. In order to provide thisoverall picture, the accounting system will normally produce five major financialreports on a regular recurring basis. These financial...