The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is supported in many countries because it may improve the quality and international comparability of financial reporting. However, these goals are less likely to be achieved without regulatory oversight that promotes rigorous and...

The introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the EU is obviously an unusually important event for accounting, accountants and accounting researchers, and naturally European Accounting Review has been very keen in devoting this special issue to the topic. It will be a...

The effects of trading Level I ADRs in the US OTC market were investigated for 119 firms from Hong Kong, the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Japan, South Africa, Germany and Brazil during the period February 1992 to April 2001. Since firms that undertake Level I ADR programs do not reconcile...

This paper describes and analyzes the issues of financial reporting and corporate communication in connection with corporate governance. The analysis is based on the studies conducted in the Anglo-American and the European academic literature both from a normative and a positive perspective. It...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and their predecessor, International Accounting Standards (IAS) are gaining in worldwide recognition. All publicly traded companies in the EU must adopt them by 2005 and many other countries either have adopted them or plan to do so in the near...

Motivated by the debate about globally uniform accounting standards, this paper investigates whether firms using US GAAP vis-a-vis IAS exhibit differences in several proxies for information asymmetry. The study exploits a unique setting where the two sets of standards are put on a level playing...

Despite the increasing integration of global capital markets, there is little evidence on the valuation properties of cross-listed, non-U.S. firms' accounting variables. We use the relative performance of the earnings capitalization, the book value, and the residual income valuation models to...

We investigate (1) whether the variation in accounting standards across national boundaries relative to International Accounting Standards (IAS) has an impact on the ability of financial analysts to forecast non-US firms' earnings accurately, and (2) whether analyst forecast accuracy changes...

Using financial accounting data from manufacturing firms in 16 countries for 1986-1995, we demonstrate that the value relevance of financial reports is lower for countries where the financial systems are bank-oriented rather than market-oriented; where private sector bodies are not involved in...

This paper investigates the accounting and disclosure practices of Ramp;D firms in the discretionary reporting environment of Australia, by examining the relationship between the investment opportunity sets of high research intensive versus low research intensive firms and the mapping to...