Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the attributes and information content of risk reporting in two different institutional and regulatory, namely, Canadian and German, settings during the period surrounding the financial crisis of 2008. Design/methodology/approach: For a matched sample of...

Deferred taxes—resulting from differences between financial and tax accounts—have been a long-standing, contentious issue in financial accounting regulation, practice, and research. Debates on concepts and standards have been accompanied by doubts around whether and the extent to which...

The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) must pass a formal endorsement process to become binding for companies based in the European Union (EU). In an unparalleled instance, the EU recently endorsed “Amendments to IFRS 4” with a modification labeled as “top up” by allowing...

Acknowledging deficiencies in current regulations and aiming at convergence, theIASB is conducting a joint project with the FASB to develop a principle-based standardon revenue recognition. The tentative proposals feature an asset-liability approachrelying on measurement at fair values or at...

Risk reporting is an emerging reporting challenge in Europe. Current literature assumescorporate risk reporting to be informative for its users. The purpose of this paper is toinvestigate in how far risk disclosures can meet the information function alleged.Embedded in frameworks of economics of...

Managerial forecast disclosure has gained increasing interest. Besides voluntary publication,managers are more and more obliged to disclose forecasts by recent accountingregulation. This acknowledges the common proposition that forecasts were exceptionallyrelevant and decision useful information...