Lang, Raedy and Wilson (2006) examine the properties of U.S. GAAP accounting numbers provided by cross-listed firms and compare them to those of U.S. firms. Using a wide range of properties related to earnings management, timely loss recognition, and value relevance, LRW show that accounting...

This paper has the purpose of surveying and critically analyzing the effects of accounting procedures which are closely related to groups of companies operating multinationally. These are the methods for translation of financial statements, e.g. the Temporal and the Closing-rate Methods, as far...

This paper examines factors that affect the accounting system in Russia as it moves toward the adoption and implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Current rules are examined and selected Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) are compared to IFRS, followed by a...

This paper examines the trading volume reaction to the reconciliation of IAS-based earnings to U.S. GAAP on Form 20-F filed during the period of 1995-2001. The sample includes all non-U.S. firms that use IAS as their primary reporting standards and reconcile their earnings to U.S. GAAP in their...

The good Corporate Governance ensures the better corporate performance and better relationship with stakeholders, where the proper practice of accounting standards assumes a lot of importance as it leads to the effective disclosure thus, good Corporate Governance. Hence, the practice of proper...

Good corporate governance ensures that corporations perform better and have a better relationship with its stakeholders. The proper practice of accounting standards is very significant, as it leads to the effective disclosure and consequently good corporate governance programmes. Hence, the...

The paper analyses the effects of three sets of accounting rules for financial instruments - Old IAS before IAS 39 became effective, Current IAS or US GAAP, and the Full Fair Value (FFV) model proposed by the Joint Working Group (JWG) - on the financial statements of banks. We develop a...

This article argues that the European Union (EU) has been instrumental in moving the United States (US) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from a policy of national treatment of foreign (non-US) issuers to a policy of mutual recognition of financial disclosure regulation based on...

The contribution of this paper is to provide evidence, from a sample of 281 companies, about Egyptian convergence to international accounting. We construct indices to measure both disclosure and measurement convergence, and the impacts of education and training, tax, and three company...