Download or read book Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation written by Christian Leuz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the economic consequences of financial reporting and disclosure regulation. We integrate theoretical and empirical studies from accounting, economics, finance and law in order to contribute to the cross-fertilization of these fields. We provide an organizing framework that identifies firm-specific (micro-level) and market-wide (macro-level) costs and benefits of firms' reporting and disclosure activities and then use this framework to discuss potential costs and benefits of regulating these activities and to organize the key insights from the literature. Our survey highlights important unanswered questions and concludes with numerous suggestions for future research.
Download or read book The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation written by Christian Leuz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the empirical literature on the economic consequences of disclosure and financial reporting regulation (including IFRS adoption), drawing on U.S. and international evidence. Given the policy relevance of research on regulation, we highlight the challenges with: (i) quantifying regulatory costs and benefits, (ii) measuring disclosure and reporting outcomes, and (iii) drawing causal inferences from regulatory studies. Next, we discuss empirical studies that link disclosure and reporting activities to firm-specific and market-wide economic outcomes. Understanding these links is important when evaluating regulation. We then synthesize the empirical evidence on the economic effects of disclosure regulation and reporting standards, including the evidence on IFRS adoption. Several important conclusions emerge. We generally lack evidence on market-wide effects and externalities from regulation, yet such evidence is central to the economic justification of regulation. Moreover, evidence on causal effects of disclosure and reporting regulation is still relatively rare. We also lack evidence on the real effects of such regulation. These limitations provide many research opportunities. We conclude with several specific suggestions for future research.
Download or read book Economic Consequences of Financial Accounting Standards written by Financial Accounting Standards Board and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulation of Disclosure and Corporate Governance An Empirical Investigation of Economic Consequences written by Stephanie Müller-Bloch and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The level of regulation of disclosure and corporate governance on the national and supranational level has increased substantially in the last decade. With that in mind, and in the light of the demand for evidence-based financial reporting and disclosure regulation (Buijink, 2006; Gassen and Günther, 2014; Leuz and Wysocki, 2016), this dissertation aims at investigating economic consequences of such regulation. In particular, this dissertation attempts to provide empirical evidence that helps regulators to assess intended and unintended economic consequences of regulating disclosure and cor...
Download or read book The Economics and Politics of Accounting written by Christian Leuz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting and the role of accountants has permeated the modern societies. For the most part we have accepted the impartiality and objectivity of accounting and not recognized how accounting systems are embedded in a country's economic and legal framework, much of which is in turn shaped by political processes. This web of interactions results in complex economic and political questions which require accounting researchers to focus on several related trends: information economics, regulatory economics, sociology, and political science. Although considerable progress has been made in the field of accounting, many fundamental questions are still subject to debate. In this book leading international scholars address a number of important questions: · What is the role of accounting in security valuation, decision making and contracting? · What can we learn from economics-based research in accounting? · What is the role of auditing and how can accounting standards be enforced? · What are the cost and benefits of accounting and disclosure regulation? · What is the role of accounting in society? · How does lobbying affect the political process of standard setting? · What are the consequences of the internationalization of standard setting? This seminal book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and graduate students of Accounting, Finance, Business Studies, Sociology, and Political Economy.
Download or read book Economic Effects of Transparency in International Equity Markets written by Mark Lang and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph reviews the existing accounting, finance and economics literature on the economic effects of transparency in international equity markets, considers aspects of an international setting that make it an interesting environment for investigating these effects, and suggests directions for future research
Download or read book IAS IFRS written by Vera Palea and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consequences of the Sarbanes Oxley Act Financial Accounting and Reporting Quality Capital Market written by Carolin Peters and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was introduced by President George W. Bush in the year 2002. This regulation changed disclosure and reporting requirements and aims to increase trust of the investors in capital markets again, after facing several balance and accounting scandals between the years 2000 and 2002, for example at Enron and WorldCom . The SOX affects companies with a registration at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). There are two sections that are considered having a high impact on the corporate governance of complying firms, Section 302 (SOX 302) and Section 404 (SOX 404). SOX 302 - "Corporate Responsibility for Financial Reports"- demands the executives to assess whether firms' financial statements represent the financial situation and the results of the operations and the period. Executives should design, establish and maintain internal controls. An evaluation of the effectiveness, disclosures of deficiencies concerning internal controls, frauds et cetera is necessary (SOX, 2002, Section 302). SOX 404 - "Management Assessment of Internal Controls"- extends prior requirements and demands that the company's external auditor must report on the reliability of management's assessment of internal control every fiscal year. It also requires an annual attestation by the management that evaluates the reliability of financial statements (SOX, 2002, Section 404). Especially SOX 404 is considered a cost driver of the SOX and demands significant changes in financial reporting. Aim of SOX 302 and 404 is to improve internal controls, and to reduce opportunistic behaviour of executives. Prior studies show evidence that there seem to be differences between the perceived benefits and the target effects of the SOX, for example regarding audit quality after the SOX. Furthermore, there is a discussion question
Download or read book Economic Consequences of Disclosure Regulation written by Ying Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbied against the proposed standard would incur higher proprietary disclosure costs from SFAS 131 than other industries and I identify lobbying industries based on companies' comment letters on the Exposure Draft of the standard. I find that an industry was more likely to lobby against the standard if public firms in that industry as a whole commanded a larger market share, enjoyed more persistent abnormal profits, had higher R & D activities, and faced more private competitors. In my primary test I find that after the adoption of SFAS 131, public firms in a lobbying industry experienced a significant decline in their aggregate product market share relative to those in a non-lobbying industry, confirming companies' concerns about the competitive harm of disclosures required by SFAS 131. My study contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the real market-wide effects, as opposed to the informational firm-specific effects, of a disclosure regulation.
Download or read book Accounting discretion of banks during a financial crisis written by Mr.Luc Laeven and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper shows that banks use accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. Banks' balance sheets overvalue real estate-related assets compared to the market value of these assets, especially during the U.S. mortgage crisis. Share prices of banks with large exposure to mortgage-backed securities also react favorably to recent changes in accounting rules that relax fair-value accounting, and these banks provision less for bad loans. Furthermore, distressed banks use discretion in the classification of mortgage-backed securities to inflate their books. Our results indicate that banks' balance sheets offer a distorted view of the financial health of the banks.
Download or read book Business Disclosure government s Need to Know written by Columbia University. Center for Law and Economic Studies and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1979 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers and dialogues from a conference held at Airlie House, Nov. 5-6, 1976 and sponsored by the Center for Law and Economic Studies of Columbia University.
Download or read book Accounting and Regulation written by Roberto Di Pietra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1998, the world’s leading experts on accounting and regulation have convened in a series of workshops to explore and analyze emerging issues in the field. They have covered a wide array of topics, including corporate governance, auditing, financial disclosure, international standards boards, and the dynamics of markets and institutions. Most recently, they have focused on the role that accounting practices and policies may have played in the global financial crisis of 2008. In this volume, the editors showcase contributions from the workshops that represent the full spectrum of issues and perspectives relating to accounting and regulation. Each paper incorporates the most current examples and references to reflect the latest insights, with an emphasis on exploring future implications for theory and research, practice, and policymaking.
Download or read book Financial Reports Quality and Transparency written by Joshua Ronen and published by Eliva Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent pandemic has ravished many aspects of our economy, and it may be years until we emerge with a new equilibrium, one which will likely be marked by a high degree of economic volatility and uncertainty. While a clouded future is bad enough for macroeconomic forecasters, it is just as, if not more troubling for managers of firms who need to glimpse the future to make informed business decisions. For this latter group, it is equally imperative to forecast events and for transactions to be folded into estimates that largely populate financial reports. Many, if not most items in financial statements embed estimates that are subject to measurement error or bias, the latter induced by misalignment of incentives. This potentially deleterious consequence of biased estimates has become even more critical in light of the trend of expanding requirements (over the last two decades or so) by the FASB to incorporate forecasts and estimates in the financial statements. Fair values (discussed in the last two papers in this volume) and the allowance for loan losses are examples. Sadly, the pandemic and its aftermath, because of the heightened uncertainty, is likely to amplify the problem: both measurement error and bias would proliferate, the first because of the enhanced fogginess of the future and the second because managers would be afforded the chance to ascribe more biased estimates to the unreliability of forecasts. The five articles in this book are relevant to our contemporary conditions. These works address two not entirely unrelated social arrangements (auditing and accounting standard-setting) that have contributed to opacity and misleading information in financial reports. About the Author: Joshua Ronen is a Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research areas include capital markets, disclosure, earning management, economic impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial reporting, legal liability of firms, transfer pricing, agency theory, corporate governance, and fair valuation. Professor Ronen's scheme for financial statements insurance has gained wide publicity. His Op-Ed page article in the New York Times was favorably commented on in the Wall Street Journal and introduced at the Senate Banking Committee.
Download or read book Economic Consequences of Mandated Accounting Disclosures written by Elizabeth Chuk and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine whether firms alter their behavior in response to changes in accounting standards mandating new financial statement disclosures. While prior research suggests that new recognition rules lead to changes in firm behavior, there is limited evidence that disclosure rules can impact firm behavior. I fill this void in the literature by examining the economic consequences of the mandated disclosures of pension asset composition required under SFAS 132R. Under pension accounting rules, the composition of pension assets is a key determinant of the assumed expected rate of return (ERR) on pension assets. I find that when firms disclose asset composition for the first time under SFAS 132R, firms that are previously using upward biased ERRs respond by (i) increasing asset allocation to high-risk securities and/or (ii) reducing the ERR assumption. While disclosure requirements arguably create less powerful incentives to alter firm decisions than recognition requirements, my findings offer evidence that firms alter their behavior in response to disclosure standards.
Download or read book Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects written by Chandra Kanodia and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanodia presents a new approach to the study of accounting measurement that argues that how firms' economic transactions, earnings, and capital flows are measured and reported to the capital markets has substantial effects on the firms' real decisions and on the allocation of resources.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Accounting Reporting and Regulation written by Carien van Mourik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial accounting, reporting and regulation is a vast subject area of huge global importance, with interest rising significantly in the light of the ongoing global financial crisis. The authors begin with a broad overview of the subject of accounting, setting the stage for a discussion on the theoretical and practical issues and debates regarding financial reporting, which are expanded on in the second part of the book. This includes how to define the reporting entity, recognition and measurement of the elements of financial statements, fair values in financial reporting and the costs and benefits of disclosure. The third part assesses the interest, need and theories behind the accounting, reporting and regulation industry, while parts four and five look at the institutional, social and economic aspects; with issues such as accounting for environmental management and, accounting regulation and financial reporting in Islamic countries, both issues of ever increasing importance. This authoritative Companion presents a broad overview of the state of these disciplines today, and will provide a comprehensive reference source for students and academics involved in accounting, regulation and reporting.
Download or read book The Economics and Regulation of Financial Privacy written by Nicola Jentzsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the topic, offering an international comparison of credit reporting systems. Coverage includes competition in information markets, the microeconomics of information and privacy, and economic incentives to disclose or to conceal information. The book examines the history of credit reporting agencies and the regulation of privacy and credit reporting around the world. Finally, it surveys the effects of credit reporting in credit markets worldwide.
