<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>This paper examines interpretation of accounting standards that provide implementation guidance via affirmative or counter examples. Based on prior psychology research, we predict that practitioners engage in "example-based reasoning" such that they are more likely to conclude that their...

type="main" xml:id="acfi12004-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines the impact of FASB Interpretation No. 46 (Revised), FIN 46(R), on perceived earnings informativeness of companies with special purpose entities (SPEs). We find that the impact depends on the pre-FIN 46(R) incentives for using...</p>