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Competitors often pay close attention to rivals' financial reports. For firms with high levels of proprietary information, competition may increase the costs of public disclosure. Theory suggests that such costs, which we refer to as the proprietary costs of financial reporting, may lead to...
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This paper studies how financial statement comparability affects the cost of capital and investor welfare. We show that the cost of capital decreases with comparability if and only if the quality of accounting standards is sufficiently high, thus supporting the relative importance of...
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accordance with EU-endorsed International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an effort to increase the comparability of … financial information across EU Member States. While some expect IFRS reporting to increase the comparability of financial … information across the EU, others argue that comparability is unlikely because IFRS implementation will vary conditional on …
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We examine whether (and to what extent) accounting regulation intended to improve disclosure can lead to higher …, one under US GAAP and the other under IFRS, which have one key difference — while both changes mandate improvements to the … outcomes between these two changes. We find that the IFRS disclosure standard is effective at improving pension asset …
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This study examines the impact of cross-firm financial statement comparability on theregulatory oversight of financial reporting quality. Consistent with the notion that cross-firmcomparable accounting systems enhance the regulators' ability to evaluate financial reportingquality, we find that...
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This article investigates statement that IFRS have positive impact on the regulatory system in continental European … accounting systems in the Czech Republic. Steps of IFRS implementation are monitored and partial implementation of IFRS into … assumed that the impact of IFRS on accounting regulatory system in other continental European countries is similar. …
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In recent years, regulators have exempted an increasing number of companies from the requirement to appoint auditors, yet little is known about the role of the accounting profession in preparing and validating the financial statements of unaudited companies. In this paper, we examine empirically...
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(IFRS) in 2005. The results indicate that impairment of goodwill is actually less value relevant than amortisation, but that …In this paper there has been made a comparison between the amortisation and the impairment methods for accounting for … goodwill, with regards to their associated effects on accounting quality. Based on two qualitative characteristics of …
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(IFRS) in 2005. The results indicate that impairment of goodwill is actually less value relevant than amortisation, but that …In this paper there has been made a comparison between the amortisation and the impairment methods for accounting for … goodwill, with regards to their associated effects on accounting quality. Based on two qualitative characteristics of …
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on mandatory disclosures on goodwill impairment testing reveals low compliance among European firms. In this paper, we …
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