This study highlights the superior performance of Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) in credit risk modeling under IFRS 9, particularly during economic uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using granular bank-level data from Malta, spanning 2017-2023, the analysis integrates macroeconomic...

We build a balance sheet-based model to capture run risk, i.e., a reduced potential to raise capital from liquidity buffers under stress, driven by depositor scrutiny and further fuelled by fire sales in response to withdrawals. The setup is inspired by the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) meltdown in...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to focus on, namely, the international financial reporting standards (IFRS) or local generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) effects of financial reporting as a corporate governance mechanism on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) for banking institutions...

This paper examines whether the level of enforcement shapes the complexity in accounting standards. First, in order to identify the level of complexity in accounting standards, we calculated a new measure that conceptualizes accounting complexity based on the theoretical dimensions of...

Industry accounting is a branch of accounting that deals with the processing, analysis, and reporting of financial information in an industrial context. The industrial sector generally involves various types of business entities operating in manufacturing, trading, services, mining, and other...

The extractive industry covers a wide range of activities, including the exploration, production and sale of non-renewable natural resources such as minerals, oil and natural gas. In general, these activities are characterized by a high degree of risk. There is a risk that exploration will not...

Understand and explain the benefits and consequences of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) convergence from the expected timeline for convergence. Accountants must be able to record and report transactions involving the exchange of US dollars in foreign currency

Understand and explain the benefits and consequences of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) convergence from the expected timeline for convergence. Accountants must be able to record and report transactions involving the exchange of US dollars in foreign currency

In 2023 the IFRS Foundation published its first two IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. Those standards were guided by an architecture, or blueprint, that I developed for a comprehensive set of reporting requirements that would ensure that sustainability-related disclosures would become...

The accounting treatment of cryptoassets is based on Practical Solution No. 38 Accounting for Virtual Currencies under the Funds Settlement Act ("Practical Solution"), which was published by the Accounting Standards Board of Japan in 2018.The PITF was pioneered before the IFRS and US GAAP...

The downfall of Enron Corporation often epitomizes corporate fraud. One of the world’s fastest growing and most inventive companies, Enron had engaged in a range of complex structured hedging transactions designed to achieve accounting rather than operating results. Its principal motivation,...

The new lease standard (Accounting Standards Codification [ASC] 842), which is expected to alleviate the reporting issues associated with operating leases, requires formal recognition of related assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. Disregarding the considerable controversy surrounding...

This paper describes selected major differences between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and completed convergence projects of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards...

We test whether firms that exclude the effects of amortization from their non-GAAP earnings allocate more of an acquisition’s purchase price to definite-lived intangible assets (DLIA). This strategy can yield two potential benefits: it can (1) increase non-GAAP earnings by shifting...

This paper has two main objectives. First, it aims to compare the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) Financial Accounting Standard 1 (FAS 1) with International Accounting Standard 1 (IAS 1). Second, it seeks to assess the level of compliance of...