The current study deals with the issues of archiving, storing the documents and the account books, analyzing the filling in and storage methods. The study highlights at the same time the conditions that must be fulfilled for their drawing up, for the archiving of the documents and of the account...

This article takes a look at the major accounting policies pertinent to risk management functions of banks internationally and in India. It benchmarks the Indian policies against those internationally on three parameters. It finds wide divergence in policies in Indian banks versus...

The main objectives of recent audit market regulations are to (1) increase audit quality, (2) decrease audit market concentration, and (3) foster competition between audit firms. However, the empirical evidence on whether such regulations fulfill these goals is limited. We construct a unique...

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between future recurring NAS fees and audit quality in the post-SOX era and in a European institutional setting. Prior research suggests that the current amount of NAS fees paid to incumbent auditors does not have a significant negative effect on audit...

Cross-border investment opportunities soared in the late 1980s and 1990s, resulting in a call to harmonize accounting standards. For the past twenty years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) has invested significant resources in support of achieving a high quality...

Purpose: This paper investigates how the adoption of IFRS 10 and IFRS 11 affected consolidated financial statements. Specifically, the paper explores whether entities adopted mandatorily or voluntarily both IFRS, whether expressly declared effects, whether considered those effects as material...

Prudential regulation of financial institutions relies on asset values measured based on accounting standards. This paper examines how this regulation affects financial institutions' incentives to use Level 2 versus Level 3 fair value reporting and how their endogenous choice affects systemic...

EU politicians pressured the IASB to change the accounting rules for financial assets at the peak of the financial crisis in October 2008. The new rules enabled banks to forgo the recognition of unrealized fair value losses through reclassifications. This paper puts the ensuing regulatory relief...

In the intensifying public debate about limiting the harmful effects of climate change, many global corporations have recently articulated so-called “net-zero” goals for reducing and ultimately eliminating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We first examine the details ofthe carbon...

We examine the impact of global IFRS adoption on cross-border equity investments by individual investors. Our proxy for cross-border equity investments is trading volume in the Open Market at Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Open Market is a segment designed for German individual investors to trade...