Professional accountants have accepted for decades net income a the key performance measure of a business. The IASB decision in 2007 to require the publication of comprehensive income as it has been the case since 1997 in the United States, has fed the long time debate regarding the concept of...

Our study focused on the practices of French groups concerning the accounting treatment of intangibles acquired in business combinations. Particularly, we tested the value relevance of the accounting measures of such intangibles for the French stock market (a sample of 30 French firms during the...