André, Paul; Filip, Andrei; Paugam, Luc - ESSEC Business School - 2013
We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture … conditional conservatism, we use three measures: the Basu (1997) measure, the Khan and Watts (2009) measure, and a measure … conservative but that inappropriate application of conditional conservatism principles may have prevented financial reporting from …