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| Author | : Jan Pieter Krahmen (editor) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199253161 |
Written by a team of scholars, predominantly from the Centre for Financial Studies in Frankfurt, this volume provides a descriptive survey of the present state of the German financial system and a new analytical framework to explain its workings.
| Author | : Eva K. Jermakowicz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This study investigates whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Canada resulted in capital market benefits from enhanced financial reporting quality. We examine the effects of implementing IFRS for financial statements of the largest Canadian firms (S&P/TSX 60) listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). We compare accounting numbers reported under pre-changeover Canadian GAAP (CGAAP) with those under IFRS for the same period, and document how IFRS adoption changes key accounting measures and financial ratios. Significant accounting standard differences between two accounting frameworks having direct impact on financial measures in transition to IFRS are analyzed. Our analysis was also separately performed for companies representing Basic Materials and Energy and the Financial Services sectors because of the large concentration of companies engaged in these industries in our sample, finding that significant effects of adopting IFRS are associated with industry practices. The empirical results show that the adoption of IFRS in Canada improved the relevancy of financial reporting as gauged by the association between book value of equity and net income with the market value of company shares in the post-adoption periods. The study should be of interest to U.S. regulators considering IFRS adoption by U.S. publicly traded companies as well as to regulators, standard setters and listed companies in all countries worldwide that are in transition to IFRS.
| Author | : Didier Bensadon |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2016-05-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3319282255 |
This book, dedicated to Prof. Jacques Richard, is about the economic, political, social and even environmental consequences of setting accounting standards, with emphasis on those that are alleged to be precipitated by the adoption and implementation of IFRS. The authors offer their reasoned critiques of the effectiveness of IFRS in promoting genuine global comparability of financial reporting. The editors of this collection have invited authors from 17 countries, so that a great variety of accounting, auditing and regulatory cultures, and educational perspectives, is amply on display in their essays.
| Author | : Efobi Uchenna |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781466698789 |
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are internationally-recognized financial reporting guidelines regulated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to ensure that uniformity exists in the global financial system. In addition to regulating financial reporting, the adoption of IRFS has been shown to impact the flow of foreign capital and trade. Economics and Political Implications of International Financial Reporting Standards focuses on the consequences and determinants of the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), which has remained a top issue in International Accounting. This timely publication brings to the forefront issues related to the political and economic influences and impacts of IFRS in addition to providing a platform for further research in this area. Policy makers, academics, researchers, graduate-level students, and professionals across the fields of management, economics, finance, international relations, and political science will find this publication pertinent to furthering their understanding of financial reporting at the global level.
| Author | : Steve Lin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
One of the primary objectives of both adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and convergence between IFRS and U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) is to increase financial statement comparability. Using a unique setting in Germany, we compare the effectiveness of these two approaches in achieving this desired outcome. Our empirical tests show that both adoption and convergence lead to an increase in comparability after the new enforcement regulation in 2005. However, difference-in-differences tests show that adoption does not lead to a significant incremental increase in comparability beyond convergence. The findings of this study should be of interest to regulators and standard-setters as they assess alternative methods of aligning domestic standards with IFRS.
| Author | : Vera Palea |
| Publisher | : FrancoAngeli |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9788846480880 |
| Author | : Mingyi Hung |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
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| ISBN | : |
This study investigates the effects of adopting International Accounting Standards (IAS) on financial statements and their value relevance for a sample of German firms during 1998-2002. By implementing an innovative research design we compare accounting numbers reported under German accounting rules (HGB) with those under IAS for the same set of firm-years, and document how IAS adoption changes key financial measures and the value relevance of financial statement information. While HGB is stakeholder-oriented and commonly viewed as a historical cost accounting model that emphasizes income smoothing, IAS is shareholder-oriented and generally perceived as a fair-value accounting model that emphasizes balance sheet valuation. Consistent with these perceptions, we find that total assets and book value of equity, as well as variability of book value and net income, are significantly higher under IAS than HGB. In addition, we find that book value (net income) plays a greater (lesser) valuation role under IAS than under HGB. Finally, we find that while the IAS adjustments to book value are generally value relevant, the adjustments to income are generally value irrelevant. Our evidence provides new insights into the accounting differences between stakeholder-oriented and shareholder-oriented accounting systems and sheds light on the financial statement and valuation implications of adopting IAS in stakeholder-oriented economies, an issue that is particularly important in the upcoming adoption of IAS by the European Community.
| Author | : Habeeb Mohamed Nijam |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 14 |
| Release | : 2016 |
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| ISBN | : |
Conventional and commonly held wisdom with respect to the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is that they lead to improved financial reporting quality and comparability and thereby favorable economic consequences. There are however contradicting evidences disproving this conventional wisdom or rejecting its gross generalization over the entire jurisdictions harmonizing on IFRS. Driven by this fact, quests for knowledge about the dynamics and contexts that lead to differential effects of IFRS get momentum. In an attempt to explore the insight into the effects of international accounting harmonization by way of IFRS adoption, this paper reviews selected literatures on consequences of IFRS adoption. This review discusses some empirical evidences that have been reported in various countries that include Europe, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Norway, Greece, Poland, Belgian, France, Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Jordan, China, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Kenya and Nigeria. Our review focuses on the aspects of value relevance, disclosure quality, cost of capital, earning management and financial statement impact due to the IFRS adoption. This review reveals that economic consequences of IFRS adoption significantly differ across jurisdictions though being its impact reported to be positive in majority of cases. There are also notable number of studies that report indifferent and or negative effects of IFRS adoption. When IFRS studies report mixed evidence with respect to value relevance of book value of equity and earing, book value of equity supersedes the earning parameters. IFRS are found to supersede many other domestic financial reporting standards in terms of volume and quality of disclosures in financial statements. This review also obtains that IFRS' impact on the reduction of cost of capital depends on financial reporting incentives, law enforcement, types of legal systems and various other country and capital market specific characteristics. Further, though there are some evidences to the contrary, the quality of earnings reported under IFRS has been established to be superior to that under other local standards.
| Author | : Wai Ling Yap |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Accounting |
| ISBN | : |
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is said to produce higher quality accounting information, greater comparability of accounts, greater consistency of accounting processes, greater transparency between firms and lower costs of capital. However, there are arguments against the adoption of IFRS. The first objective of this study is to examine the accounting quality of IFRS earnings and equity, compared to the accounting quality of earnings and equity prepared under previous standards; that is GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) for United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Singapore firms. The second objective is to investigate the effect of IFRS on the accounts (earnings and equity) of the average listed firm in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. These three countries are chosen because of their comparable historical Anglo-accounting system roots, but deviations in approaches during the accounting standards harmonization era. This study focuses on the initial adoption of IFRS, which is the most appropriate time to measure and fully capture the impact of the changes of accounting standards from GAAP to IFRS. The reason for this is because IFRS 1 First Time Adoption of International Financial Accounting Standards states that firms have to show reconciliations between previous GAAP and IFRS on (a) equity at the date of transition and the end of the latest period presented in the entity's most recent annual financial statements under GAAP, and (b) profit or loss of the latest period of the entity's most recent annual financial statements, with supplementary explanations necessary for understanding the transition. The results of this study shows the accounts of United Kingdom firms are most affected by the adoption of IFRSs when compared to Hong Kong and Singapore firms. Results also reveal that there is little evidence to conclude that financial statements prepared under IFRS are more market value relevant than financial statements prepared under GAAP.There is also little evidence to conclude that financial statements prepared under IFRSs are incrementally value relevant relative to financial statements prepared under GAAP. The conclusions are that countries that historically chose their GAAPs on selective IASs prior to the adoption of IFRSs were less affected by adjustments to companies equity and earnings. But these adjustments, even in the less harmonized companies in the United Kingdom, were not value relevant to the equity market.
| Author | : Simon Falcke |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2020-07-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3346203107 |
Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar, language: English, abstract: Starting in 2005, the portion of foreign shareholders in the Dax has risen from 45% to 58% in the last decade. In the same year, the regulation of the European Union from 2002 came into effect which required all listed firms in the European Union to report their consolidated accounts in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from 2005 on instead of each countries’ generally accepted accounting standards (GAAP). This is just one example where the volume of investments increased concurrently with the adoption of IFRS. Therefore, the question arises if the mandatory adoption of IFRS in the EU in 2005 or in other cases significantly affected and continues to affect investment decisions among adopters or third parties. In order to better account for differences between different types of investors and investees, we differentiate between retail investors, institutional investors and corporate finance activities. Moreover, we focus on the consequence of IFRS adoption on equity investment decisions as most research appears to focus on the equity instead of the credit market. Additionally, Lourenco & Branco point out that most research which finds no significant effects of IFRS adoption on investment decisions appears to focus on voluntary adoption before 2005. Thus, this paper mainly focuses on mandatory IFRS adoption. In this context, research suggests that mandatory IFRS adopters experience significant capital markets benefits as well as enhanced foreign institutional ownership and enhanced M&A activity. Ultimately, we observe four overarching drivers behind the aforementioned observations that impact investment decisions across different types of investors and investees.
