New economy companies often use convertible and redeemable preferred shares with equity and debt characteristics as financing tools to reduce risk during their early stages of growth. According to relevant accounting standards, such preferred shares should be classified as financial liabilities...

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the impact that Big 4 companies have had after the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) became mandatory on the audit market. Thus, after thorough research of the specialised studies, the impact of the financial reporting...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cyclical behavior of various credit impairment accounting regimes, namely IAS 39, IFRS 9 and US GAAP. We model the impact of credit impairments on the Profit and Loss (P&L) account under all three regimes. Our results suggest that although IFRS 9 is...

This paper investigates how accounting standards (AS) convergence influences Chinese firms' overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and shows that this convergence significantly promotes Chinese firms' overseas M&As. Specifically, we find that both the probability of success and the value of...

As the cash flow statement presents important information about the company’s operations, its quality and the related disclosure are essential to the financial statements’ users. This paper analyses the range and quality of cash flow statements along with the accompanying notes, presented by...

Cash pooling is a bank service that allows corporates to externalise the intra-group cash management, and thus manage their global liquidity effectively with lower costs. Although there is little quantitative information on the significance of the phenomenon, cash pooling appears to have become...

Abbildung von Leasingverhältnissen nach IFRS/handelsrechtlicher Rechnungslegung -- Erfüllung der Informationsfunktion des Abschlusses und des Gläubigerschutzes -- Jahresabschlusspolitische Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten -- Auswirkungen auf Kapitalbeschaffungsmöglichkeiten, Praktikabilität der...

"For accountants, determining the correct wording and presentation formats for disclosures is a time consuming effort. Financial statement preparers look for examples that they can tailor to their own statements. This book is a natural complement to Wiley GAAP and the digital Financial...

The Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) is a free-of-charge database containing the aggregated accounting data of non-financial incorporated enterprises for, so far, 11 European countries. While the individual accounts feeding the database were originally prepared in line with...

The debate on the scope of bank information disclosures seems to be an essential issue, especially after the 2007-2010 financial crisis. The adequate number of data provided to the public domain is the condition of transparency of the banking sector, which should assure the optimization of...

This study investigates the factors underlying non-compliance with IFRSs in Egypt. Evidence for this research was collected and analyzed using semi-structured interviews with academics, auditors, financial managers and officers in the Capital Market Authority, the Egyptian Exchange and the...