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benchmark: GAAP and IFRS. Each of them has his pluses and minuses on being the choused one. Due to this fact a convergence of …
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Using a sample from 22 countries, I investigate the relations between the accuracy of analysts' earnings forecasts and the level of annual report disclosure; and between forecast accuracy and the degree of enforcement of accounting standards. I document that firm-level disclosures are positively...
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The aim of this paper is to trace the principal ideas in Paton and Littleton's influential 1940 monograph to their previous and contemporaneous writings, and thus to uncover the ideas' origins in the literature
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This study systematically points out where accounting problems will arise and how US GAAP and IFRS deal with these … problems. It subsequently examines the differences in oil and gas accounting under US GAAP and IFRS in order to determine the … standards. Testing the hypothesis is done by way of a sample consisting of entities reporting under both US GAAP and IFRS. For a …
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This paper expands prior IFRS accounting systems' classifications to a broader set of 27 countries where the IFRS … influencing accounting practices in some countries even after the IFRS adoption …
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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...
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foreign companies to use IFRS in financial reporting without reconciliation to US GAAP on investors, multinational … in an IASCF Monitoring Group (SEC, 2008). Differences between IFRS and US GAAP are examined. The authors' conclusion is … that it is both timely and necessary to converge and harmonize IFRS and US GAAP into a single set of Global Accounting …
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of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Widespread use of IFRS since 2005 provides an opportunity for … empirical investigation of the benefits of IFRS. I summarise results of studies that are relevant for assessing the role of IFRS …
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politicization of accounting regulation. In particular, we investigate the legitimation crises suffered by the IASB and IFRS in …
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