Las pérdidas de Bankia-BFA entre 2010 y 2012 ascendieron a más de 36.000 millones de euros. El 3.5% del PIB español, el doble de los fondos propios de las 7 cajas que constituyeron Bankia o el 13,5% de sus activos totales. A través un benchmarking con las dos entidades más cercanas en...

We examine the impact of the 2008–2009 financial crisis on the earnings management behavior of European-listed firms. We find that earnings management has significantly decreased in the crisis years. This trend is confirmed in most of the 16 countries under review. We also report a link...

We examine the effect of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) on the type of performance measures firms use to evaluate and reward their managers. We show that post-IFRS firms decrease the weight of Earnings-per-Share (EPS)-based performance measures in CEO pay contracts. We argue...

Thanks to the recent banking crises interest has grown in banks and how they operate. In the past, the empirical and institutional market micro-structure of the operation of banks had not been a primary focus for investigations by researchers, which is why they are not well covered in the...

We examine whether external finance pressure influences information disclosure of Chinese non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs), which are often entrepreneurial firms. Existing Chinese stock exchange regulations stipulate that firms need to meet certain earnings performance criteria to qualify for...

This article evaluated whether changes in accounting practices brought a reduction in earnings management (EM) in listed Brazilian non-financial companies through discretionary accruals. We developed a model to observe the effect of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on...

The article aims at discussing the evolution of the concept of materiality in financial and, more specifically, non-financial reporting. Materiality will play a central role in the next years in order for reports to reach conciseness, which is at present one of the main goals both financial and...

Dans cet article , l'auteur retrace l'histoire de la comptabilité depuis le Moyen-Age. Quatre périodes sont distinguées : le Moyen-Age (avant la partie double); de la fin du Moyen-Age au début du XIXème siècle (période de l'émergence et de la diffusion de la partie double); XIXème et...

Un inventaire commenté des principes comptables. Après avoir évoqué le principe de la partie double, l'auteur traite des principes comptables de quantification (quantification en monnaie, coûts historiques, prudence) et des principes d'observation (entité, découpage du temps, continuité).