Banks, financial statement users, and accounting standard setters have long disagreed on the informativeness of banks' statements of cash flows (SCFs) and there is a lack of relevant evidence in the literature. This paper examines the informativeness of the SCFs of U.S. commercial banks in two...

From 2005, IAS 39: Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement required UK banks to support loan-loss provisioning with objective evidence that losses had been incurred, and thereby eliminated general loan-loss provisioning. It has been argued that the IAS 39 incurred-loss method of...