In 2003, the IASB and the US FASB formed a Joint International Group (JIG) whose objective was to carry out a project originally untitled « Performance Reporting » establishing new international financial reporting standards for performance reporting. By envisaging the use of a comprehensive...

Although accounting information including income measures have long been considered as mere informative veil with no influence over economic fundamentals (Sapra 2008), numerous authors advocate from now on that it does play a central role in any corporate governance scheme and particularly in an...

This paper examines the relevance of customer satisfaction for the financial analysts when preparing their earnings forecasts. We draw on theory in marketing to predict how customer satisfaction should be associated with earnings forecasts and forecast errors. We assembled a dataset of companies...

This study investigates whether European domestic GAAPs used for intangibles recognition prior to the IFRS adoption exhibit major differences while examining the relationship between a firm's economic (financial, operating and competitive) performance and its recognized intangible investment...

This study investigates the extent to which three key summary accounting income figures, namely operating income (OPI), net income (NI) and comprehensive income (CI), provide value-relevant information to investors in major EU capital markets. Using a large sample over the pre-IAS-compliance...

For the last two decades, authors (e.g. Ohlson, 1995; Lev, 2000, 2001) have regularly pointed out the enforcement of limitations by traditional accounting frameworks on financial reporting informativeness. Consistent with this claim, it has been then argued that accounting finds one of its major...

This study investigates the extent to which three key summary accounting income figures, namely operating income, net income and comprehensive income, provide value-relevant information to investors in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK. Using a large sample over the pre-IAS-compliance...

The goodwill is, by nature, complex since this notion encompasses two realities: the first is an economic concept – the expected present value of economic profits – the second is an accounting aggregate – the excess of the acquirer’s purchase price over the fair values of the target’s...

L'IASB et le FASB ont formé, en 2003, un groupe de travail commun en vue de faire avancer le projet de création de normes de reporting de la performance financière. Intitulé à l'origine « Performance Reporting » et se référant à une conception étendue du résultat -- le comprehensive...

L'IASB et le FASB ont formé en 2003 un groupe de travail commun en vue de faire avancer le projet de création de normes de reporting de la performance financière. Intitulé à l'origine " Performance Reporting " et se référant à une conception étendue du résultat -- le comprehensive...