Citigroup, Inc and American International Group, Inc have two very disparate views on the realisability of their deferred tax assets. Important to each company's decision is the assessed availability or lack of tax-planning strategies needed to generate future taxable income. Yet,...

Under current GAAP, initial bargain-purchase amounts, also known as negative goodwill (NGW) or the excess of the fair value of acquired net assets over the cost of an acquisition, are typically reduced or eliminated altogether by being allocated against the fair values of certain acquired assets...

Motivated in large measure by the work of Edward Miller (1977), a number of recent studies have investigated the impact of divergent expectations on security risk and return (see Bart and Masse, 1981; Friend, Westerfield and Granito,1978; and Peterson and Peterson, 1982). In addition, some theoretical...

The FASB recently issued Proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, Accounting for Hedging Activities: An Amendment of FASB Statement No. 133. The proposed standard simplifies the accounting for hedging activities and generally increases the appeal of hedge accounting. In this report...

This study measures the economic consequences of information security activities, in general, and more specifically the market value of disclosures of information security activities. Since information security activities are primarily non-revenue generating, management tends to view them as the...

This study documents behavior consistent with herding in voluntary disclosure decisions and investigates two possible reasons for this phenomenon. Based on theories of social learning and rational herds, herding in disclosure decisions may be due to managers' use of information reflected in the...

This dissertation includes two essays on the economic aspects of information security. The first essay presents a principal-agent model for assessing the value of information security audits. The issue of information security investments is confounded by control problems arising from asymmetric...

The primary objective of this article is to develop an economics-based analytical framework for assessing the impact of government incentives/regulations designed to offset the tendency to under-invest in cybersecurity related activities by private sector firms. The analysis provided in the...

This study documents evidence consistent with herding in voluntary disclosure decisions in the context of capital expenditure forecasts and investigates two possible reasons for this behavior. Theories of rational herds suggest that herding in disclosure decisions may be due to either (1) the...

The US federal government has fostered a movement toward sharing information concerning computer security, with particular emphasis on protecting critical infrastructure assets that are largely owned by the private sector. As information security is paramount to accurate financial reporting and...