Financial Accounting Standard No. 130 Reporting Comprehensive Income encourages enterprises to report comprehensive income on a performance statement rather than on a statement of equity. We investigate the reporting decisions of 82 publicly traded property-liability insurers, which are fairly...

This paper provides the first evidence that state-level liability standards affect auditor behavior. We hypothesize that auditors demand more conservative reporting when their insurance clients are domiciled in states with more stringent standards for third party claims against the auditor for...

The propensity of proprietary life insurance firm managers to voluntarily report supplementary information concerning the present value of actuarially-calculated earnings (earnings expected to emerge from their existing business in the future) is predicted to be related to their desire to...

This study investigates whether the form of ownership in the life insurance industry (i.e., public, private or mutual) affects the pursuit of capital, earnings, and tax management goals between 1975 and 1991. Results indicate that differences resulting from ownership structure are most...

This study examines whether the reported loss reserves of property-casualty insurers contain an implicit discount for the time value of money. Reporting the present value of loss reserves enables insurers to justify the competitive level of insurance premiums to regulators. The evidence...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued Statement No. 156 - Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets, an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140 (SFAS 156) which requires, if servicing assets and liabilities are separately recognized, their initial measurement at fair...

We use stock return data to investigate the effects of the First Executive (FE) failure on other life insurance firms. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly test for the separate effects of individual (retail) and institutional customer responses. The announcement of an accounting...

This study examines whether the reported loss reserves of property-casualty insurers contain an implicit discount for the time value of money. Reporting the present value of loss reserves enables insurers to justify the competitive level of insurance premiums to regulators. The evidence...

This study investigates the extent to which property-casualty insurers during the 1990-1995 period select levels of loss reserves, net capital gains and net stock transactions to meet solvency and tax reporting goals. We use simultaneous equations to model the three discretionary choices...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of companies' previously uncorrected financial statement misstatements using disclosures recently mandated by Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108 (SAB 108). We analyze 355 companies that disclose and correct 792 misstatements in their...