Practitioners and some academics use potential dividends rather than actual payments to shareholders for valuing a firm’s equity. We underline the differences between the two methods and present some arguments supporting the thesis that firm valuation with potential dividends overstate the...

Standard IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements requires disclosure of allsignificant accounting policies used in preparing the financial statements. It also indicates thebusiness continuity assumption as one of the basic principles of all aspects of the accountingpolicy applied. Therefore,...

The issue of international accounting harmonization has achieved, mainly within the last decade, a significant dimension in the field of international accounting research. The main determinant factor for this state of the art is the process aiming at redu

Our paper aims at telling the whole story where fair value accounting is concerned. Harsh criticism has been brought to this concept under current circumstances that motivated out research. Without arguing for fair value as something it is not, we briefly

This paper approaches a frequently discussed subject in the context of the current global economic crisis, namely the fair value. The accounting concept, which implies that entities – in a different degree from one accounting system to another – should re

For the past decades International Accounting Standards and other Anglo-Saxon standards, for example the American ones, had promoted fair value as a valuation basis for the elements of the financial statements. Thus, the quality of the financial informati

(VF)Les organisations réagissent parfois aux pressions institutionnelles en découplant leurs structures formelles de leurs activités réelles. Ce phénomène de découplage est en fait un phénomène complexe qui masque des motivations diverses et des comportements encore peu étudiés. En...

La gestión del riesgo ha asumido una enorme importancia en las instituciones financieras. Los bancos divulgan su exposición a los riesgos del mercado a través del Valor en Riesgo (Value at risk, VaR). Este trabajo evalúa la divulgación de esta medida de gestión del riesgo en el sector...

The purpose of this article is to explore the role of instruments in the transformation of institutional logics and their associated practices at the micro level. Based on an ethnographic study, this article compares two working groups — one responsible for equity and the other for...

We examine the economic consequences of the recent adoption of SFAS 123(R) in the United States. Consistent with the conjectures of prior research, our results show that the removal of favorable accounting treatment for stock options post SFAS 123(R) results in a switch from stock options to...