We examine whether the value relevance of reported intangibles differs between financial reporting regimes pre- and post- adoption of Australian equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards, AGAAP and AIFRS respectively. Using AIFRS and AGAAP measures of goodwill and identifiable...

We provide some initial descriptive and exploratory results concerning the earnings-returns relation in periods of poor versus strong macroeconomic performance. Based on data from three countries – Australia, the U.S., and China – our results indicate some differences for U.S. and Chinese...

We investigate whether the adoption of IFRS in 2005 by Australian firms has been associated with a loss of potentially useful information about intangible assets, as conjectured by Matolcsy and Wyatt (2006). We find that the negative association between analyst forecast error...