The objective of this article is to highlight some of the key changes because of the transition from IFRS 4 to IFRS 17 and how the financial information presented by the insurance companies will transform from 1 January 2023

We show that financial reporting spurs consumer behavior. Using granular GPS data, we show that foot-traffic to firms’ commerce locations significantly increases in the days following their earnings announcements. Foot-traffic increases more for announcements with extreme earnings surprises,...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has become the new dominant set of accounting standards; however the transition to the new regime may be fairly disruptive for users of financial statements as comparability and trend analysis may be impaired. The objective of this study is to...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are the new global accounting standards and have made its way into India. As the country accepts these standards, investors are curious whether change of accounting standards from Indian GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) to IFRS...

In this paper we investigate the value relevance of accounting information for the Greek listed companies for the period 1995-2009. For our purpose we examine the way that two accounting variables, earnings and book value, affect the share price. According to our findings from the statistical...

We develop a Compustat-based financial reporting uniformity measure based on the presentation of common financial statement line items. We define uniformity as the average ratio of a firm's pairwise overlaps of non-missing Compustat data items with peer firms. Emphasizing the conceptual...

This paper uses panel cointegration with a corresponding vector error correction model (VECM) to investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK under three different valuation models. First, a basic...

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangibles (FASB 2001) altered the treatment of goodwill by replacing the systematic amortization of goodwill with impairment testing. This change affected earnings in two ways by requiring many firms to take sizable...

We examine the impact of IFRS adoption on enforcement costs for financial statement preparers. Regulators argue that the flexibility of IFRS makes proving accounting violations more difficult, while practitioners believe that more detailed GAAP standards provide a better safeguard against...

The authors present the idea of integrating prediction markets into the IASB's due process of accounting standards development in order to assure the legitimacy of IFRS. They refer to the constitutional economics concept of hypothetical consent and further substantiate literature claims that the...