The aim of this paper is to analyze the question of whether the sole focus of standard setters developing accounting standards that are useful to external users for making decisions about providing resources to the entity result in useful accounting information. To answer this question, we...

We study the relative efficiency of centralized versus decentralized organizational forms given optimized managerial performance evaluation within an incomplete contracting framework with risk‐averse agents under moral hazard. Decentralization and performance evaluation are complementary...

Purpose: Product modularization and supply chain integration have establishedthemselves as efficient methods for complexity management, but a holistic view oftheir effects has rarely been studied. For this reason, we demonstrate a conceptwhich presents these effects along the product life-cycle...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the question of whether the sole focus of standard setters developing accounting standards that are useful to external users for making decisions about providing resources to the entity result in useful accounting information. To answer this question, we...

This paper provides an overview of rules for taxation and dividend distributions for EU and UK listed entities in EU regulated markets. Empirical research on IFRS application typically considers IFRS as informative about future cash flows. However, taxes and distributable dividends are based on...

If target prices reflect the true values of stocks, they should direct prices towards intrinsic values. But analysts’ optimism and use of less sophisticated valuation methods have been found to impede target price informativeness. We find that target price optimism has a positive effect on the...

This paper studies the impact of tightening accounting standards on an impatient manager's long-term investment decisions under earnings based performance evaluation. We analyze how the manager's possibility to influence current earnings will affect his investment decision-making. We examine a...

Bonus banks are multi-year performance plans for deferring bonus payments and enhancing pay-for-performance by facilitating downward corrections of bonuses. This paper examines the incentive properties of bonus bank schemes based on performance measures as proposed in the literature. To attain...

Using variation in book-tax conformity across EU countries, we provide new evidence on whether mandatory IFRS adoption leads to increases in earnings quality. Specifically, we examine if the relation between earnings quality and IFRS adoption differs among firms in countries with and without a...