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International financial reporting standards (IFRS) have become a worldwide common accounting language which most …. Thus, this study is carried out to observe the influence of IFRS adoption on the economic growth of 11 CIS countries from … adoption of IFRS showed negative and insignificant relation to GDP per capita. The number of observations after fully adopting …
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We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). In particular, we focus on the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from two basic factors: managing expected litigation...
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adoption of IFRS by the United States. In Part I (see Hail et al. 2010), we develop the conceptual framework for our analysis … and discuss economic factors driving the costs and benefits associated with IFRS adoption. In this part, we provide an … analysis of the political factors related to the possible U.S. adoption of IFRS, present several scenarios for the evolution of …
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The SEC decided in 2007 to allow foreign private issuers who use IFRS as promulgated by the IASB (pure IFRS filers … convergence efforts of the IASB and FASB and did not focus on pure IFRS filers. We examine the information content of the … reconciliations for a sample of 88 pure IFRS filers during 2006 and 2007. Consistent with the reconciliation lacking usefulness for …
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A roadblock exists between International Financial Reporting Standards, (IFRS) and United States Generally Accepted … Accounting Standards, (US GAAP) in the area of acceptable methods of inventory valuation. IFRS recognizes the First In First Out … Service, IRS. In order for the United States to adopt IFRS Accounting Standards, the elimination of LIFO would have to occur …
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Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangibles (FASB 2001) altered the treatment of goodwill by replacing the systematic amortization of goodwill with impairment testing. This change affected earnings in two ways by requiring many firms to take sizable...
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We examine the effect of the adoption of the new revenue recognition standard (ASC 606) on earnings quality and the role of earnings in the debt market. We find that ASC 606, a transition from a rules-based to a principles-based accounting standard, decreases earnings predictability, which is...
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We examine the cost-effectiveness, from the shareholders' perspective, of the accounting standards issued by the FASB during 1973-2009. In particular, we evaluate (i) the stock market reactions of firms affected by the standards surrounding events that changed the probability of issuance of...
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