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We examine the effect of auditor conservatism on corporate innovation. We hypothesize that because conservative auditors constrain income-increasing accounting discretion, managers may sacrifice long-term investments in innovation to boost current earnings and meet short-term performance...
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Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) across Europe since 2005. We estimate firm-specific asymmetric timeliness using the Khan … IFRS before the mandatory adoption date as a control sample to address the effect of unidentified confounding events. We … find increased timely loss recognition relative to this control sample only among mandatory IFRS adopters with a higher …
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We examine the impact of the 2008–2009 financial crisis on the earnings management behavior of European-listed firms. We find that earnings management has significantly decreased in the crisis years. This trend is confirmed in most of the 16 countries under review. We also report a link...
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We examine the effect of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) on the type of performance measures firms … use to evaluate and reward their managers. We show that post-IFRS firms decrease the weight of Earnings-per-Share (EPS …)-based performance measures in CEO pay contracts. We argue that IFRS add “noise” to accounting numbers which, based on optimal …
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on firms' EM as well as the restrictive effects of the audit, the corporate … also find that the transition to IFRS had a restrictive effect on EM in Brazil after its complete implementation. …
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The present study examines whether and to what extent the recent crisis in the European Union (EU) had an impact on the quality of the reported earnings of listed firms in countries with weak fiscal sustainability (Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal)—countries that have been forced to...
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trading volume – increases in countries following mandatory IFRS adoption, and conditions and mechanisms through which … increases occur. Findings suggest information content increased in 16 countries that mandated adoption of IFRS relative to 11 … that maintained domestic accounting standards, although the effect of mandatory IFRS adoption depends on the strength of …
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prepared by cross-listed firms that report under IFRS as promulgated by the IASB (hereafter CL IFRS firms). Using IFRS …-adopting firms that are not cross-listed in the U.S. (hereafter NCL IFRS firms) as the control sample, we find that CL IFRS firms … that the SEC's previous reconciliation requirement may have an unintended negative effect on CL IFRS firms' incentives in …
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adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in order to examine whether IFRS introduction enhances the … exchange rate risk affect them occasionally. Moreover, the IFRS introduction reinforces the explanatory ability of accounting … IFRS. Moreover, loans to total assets ratio, interest rate spread and income diversification are directly associated with …
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The adoption of IFRS around the globe has stimulated empirical research that investigates the financial reporting and …, jurisdictional setting, and research design, and they report varying findings. We conduct a meta-analysis of IFRS adoption studies … value relevance of book value of equity has not increased post-IFRS adoption, whereas the value relevance of earnings has …
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