This paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D expenditures. The firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and costs of R&D, expensing a larger portion of R&D when the benefits occur in the long-run and capitalizing a larger portion when the benefits occur in the...

Understanding and the interpretation of financial statements is an important factor for economic entities, for making the right decisions. Nowadays, more and more is noticed the general tendency of the harmonization of the Directive IV of the European Committee with International Financial...

“The Islamic financial industry needs a corresponding alternative set of accounting standards which can at best be harmonized, not standardized due to the different nature and activities of the Islamic banks and financial institutions. These standards already exist, developed by an industry...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the repercussions of the accounting changeover from the Greek Accounting Standards (GAS) to the International Accounting Standards (IAS) in relation to the published financial statements of Greek listed companies for the year 2004. The results show...

The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...

The International Accounting Standards Committee issued the the International Accounting Standard 11, Construction Contracts. The objective of IAS 11 is to prescribe the accounting treatment of revenue and costs associated with construction contracts. This Standard uses the recognition criteria...

Management Arabian and Anglo-American countries are different in style and orientation. Arab managers are concerned with the observance of the rules, regulations and customs instead of exercising their professional judgment style that leads to a sense of helplessness institution. Although...

We document a positive association between political uncertainty and accounting conservatism. In the year prior to a U.S. presidential election, on average, accounting conservatism increases by nearly 20 percent. This election year effect is stronger when the election is closer, when the...

The arm's length principle states that the transfer price between two associated enterprises should be the price that would be paid for similar goods in similar circumstances by unrelated parties dealing at arm's length with each other. This paper examines the effect of the arm's length...

Abstract: The financial accounting data about foreign direct investments (FDI), collected, classified, tabulated, and published by the leading statistical institutions of the world, are in part distorted (to the extent that General Partners and Limited Partnerships are involved), and in total...