Using the adoption of SFAS 142 as an exogenous shock, we examine the effect of changes in financial reporting on firms' internal information environment. SFAS 142 removed goodwill amortization and required firms to perform a two-step impairment test. We argue that complying with SFAS 142 induces...

Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2011-05 eliminates the option to present other comprehensive income (OCI) in the statement of changes in stockholders' equity. This study empirically investigates whether this mandatory change of OCI presentation format achieves FASB's stated objective of...

Austria and Germany share similar accounting traditions. International harmonization in both countries has mainly focused on group accounting. In contrast, single financial statements give rise to legal and tax consequences and, thus, are still tied to the traditional principles of orderly...

This paper constructs a one-period model of a reporting game where the manager is risk neutral and the asset market is perfectly competitive. The manager chooses the level of the accounting earnings to report to the market in order to influence the market value of the firm. The reported earnings...

This paper constructs a model of a standard setting game among informed and uninformed investors, an auditor and standard setters to examine how accounting standard setting interacts with informed and uninformed investors' investment decisions. It proves that the levels of investments of...

This paper examines how the investor's belief about the project's ability of generating cash flow affects accounting standard setting. It proves analytically that the accounting standard in the Stackelberg equilibrium of the static model increases with the increase in the investor's belief about...

We study how recognition versus disclosure affects the control function of accounting through the use of debt covenants. While research shows that recognition affects the value-relevance of reported amounts, the effect on contracting is unclear. We examine whether covenants changed around SFAS...

Purpose – The aim is to explore whether principles-based versus rules-based accounting standards have an effect on measures of financial reporting quality and earnings management strategies. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a firm-year-specific variable that captures the extent...

The broad objective of this research was to empirically examine the effect of IFRS on value relevance of accounting information. This study employs a longitudinal panel research design. The population of this study covers all quoted banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. As at the study...