This study examines whether application of IFRS by non-US firms results in accounting amounts comparable to those resulting from application of US GAAP by US firms. IFRS firms have greater accounting system and value relevance comparability with US firms when IFRS firms apply IFRS than when they...

Prior research shows that firms' financial statement comparability improves the accuracy of market participants' valuation judgments and thus may reduce firms' costs of capital. Distinct from prior research focusing on the equity market, we develop measures of comparability relevant to debt...

This study documents that big bath accounting following CEO turnovers is pervasive worldwide and shows that the extent to which CEOs engage in big bath accounting is associated with the degree of discretion they have available in their respective countries. Our analysis is based on a new...