Download or read book The Impact of Adoption of IFRS on Shareholders Wealth written by Samta Ordia and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are designed as a common set of language for business affairs so that company accounts could be understandable and comparable across international boundaries. IFRS leads to changes in the financial statement of the company. In order to check whether shareholders' wealth is affected or not by adoption of IFRS, the present research has been carried out. The objectives of the present paper are to determine the shareholders' wealth in terms of EVA (absolute and relative) before and after adoption of IFRS for Indian companies and to examine the different components of EVA before and after adoption of IFRS in India. To check the impact, paired data t-test has been administered for testing significance. The results of the study reveal that there is no improvement in EVA and EVA-related financial parameters due to IFRS adoption. For consistency concern, coefficient of variation has also been calculated. The results indicate that consistency in EVA and EVA-related financial parameters is observed after adoption of IFRS. It may also be concluded that the fundamental principle of accounting, i.e., consistency, is supported to a large extent by IFRS adoption.

Download or read book The Impact of Eliminating the Form 20 F Reconciliation on Shareholder Wealth written by Lucy Huajing Chen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines shareholder wealth effects in U.S. and home-country markets relating to the SEC's decision to eliminate the Form 20-F reconciliation. During the period of examined events, we find positive cumulative abnormal returns for the treatment sample of U.S. cross-listed firms that prepare financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) but no such effects for our control sample comprising cross-listed non-IFRS, U.S. domestic, or home-country firms. We find the stock market impact for our treatment sample to be positively related to our proxy for cost savings and negatively related to the pre-adoption reconciliation magnitude from IFRS to U.S. GAAP. This suggests shareholders place some value on reconciliation information, but generally the costs of preparing and auditing reconciliations outweigh concern about information loss. Moreover, we find that information loss is less pronounced for firms having used IFRS for a longer period, suggesting the learning effect mitigates information loss.

Download or read book The introduction of IFRS Consequences for investment decisions written by Simon Falcke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Adoption of IFRS in the Netherlands Impact on value relevance written by Alfred Mully and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Börse, Versicherung, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Listed Dutch firms are required by law to prepare their financial statements in accordance with the International financial Statements (IFRS) since 2005. Before 2005, listed Dutch firms prepared their financial statements using Dutch law, Title 9 of book two of the Dutch Civil Code. It is interesting to investigate the effect of the implementation of IFRS. Is the quality of the financial statements improved by the implementation of IFRS for the users of the financial statements, such as investors, suppliers and banks? This question can be answered in many ways, looking at different characteristics of the accounting information, for example the comparability, the relevance, the reliability and the understandability. In this thesis the relevance will be studied. Information has the quality of relevance when it influences the economic decisions of users by helping them evaluate past, present or future events or conforming, or correcting, their past evaluations. (IFRS Handbook, 2007, p. 40) In order to be relevant the accounting information must reflect the information needs of the users in valuing a company. In order to determine the market price of a company, investors need accounting information that reflects the share price of a company. The research done studying the relevance of accounting information for valuating companies is called value-relevance research. The implementation of IFRS had consequences for the value-relevance of the accounting information. Whether the value-relevance had improved by the adoption of IFRS is dependent on the differences between the former accounting system and IFRS. The impact on value relevance in the Netherlands has not been studied yet. The impact on value-relevance in other countries has been studied however, for example in the United Kingdom (Harris and Muller, 1999), Germany (Hung and Subramanyam, 2007) and Spain Callao et al. (2007). These studies can give a powerful insight in how the difference in value-relevance of two accounting systems can be studied.

Download or read book The Effect of IFRS Adoption on Accounting Quality and Market Liquidity written by Sidney Leung and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies suggest that firm-level reporting incentives play a significant role for heterogeneous effects on the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) (e.g., Daske et al., 2013; Ball et al., 2003; Leuz et al., 2003; Burgstahler et al., 2006). In this study, we focus on family ownership control, which arguably creates severe agency problems between controlling and minority shareholders as well as weaker incentives for quality financial reporting and transparency. We examine whether the effect of full IFRS adoption on accounting quality and market liquidity is significantly mitigated by family control by comparing accounting quality metrics and market liquidity metrics between family-controlled and non-family-controlled firms listed in Hong Kong for the period before mandatory IFRS adoption and the period after adoption. We show that accounting quality and market liquidity generally improve after full IFRS adoption. However, when we take into consideration of family control, higher accounting quality in the post-IFRS period is only substantiated in the non-family-controlled firms. The accounting quality actually gets worse in the post-IFRS period for family-controlled firms. We also find that improvements in market liquidity after the adoption of IFRS are moderated by family control. The results indicate that the expected benefits of IFRS adoption are realised in non-family-controlled firms, but such desirable outcomes are severely moderated by family ownership control. Given that family control is a common phenomenon in Asia and other emerging economies, our findings are useful for policy makers and investors to better understand the impact of IFRS adoption.

Download or read book Essays on the Economic Consequences of Mandatory IFRS Reporting around the world written by Ulf Brüggemann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulf Brüggemann discusses and empirically investigates the economic consequences of mandatory switch to IFRS. He provides evidence that cross-border investments by individual investors increased following the introduction of IFRS.

Download or read book Meta analysis of the Impact of Adoption of Ifrs on Financial Reporting Comparability Market Liquidity and Cost of Capital written by Solomon Opare and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impacts of IFRS Adoption on Financial Statement Quality for Firms Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange written by Felizia Arni Rudiawarni and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective - the objective of this research is to explain whether the adoption of IFRS in Indonesia has improved accounting information quality. Methodology/Technique - Earnings volatility and discretionary accruals are used to test the scope of earnings management on a set of accounting standard used. The regression of share price and book value per share and net profit per share, along with the explanatory power of the model were used to test the value relevance of the accounting standards applied. Findings - This research finds that no significant difference of earnings management's scope after the mandatory adoption of the IFRS. Moreover, this research also finds that IFRS does not result in higher value relevance. Novelty - This research presents evidence of IFRS convergence from an emerging market point of view, particularly in Indonesia. Focus of this research is to examine the impact of IFRS adoption to financial statement quality using multiple measurements. Type of Paper: Empirical.

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 The Impact of Legal and Voluntary Investor Protection on the Early Adoption of IFRS written by Annelies Renders and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies (Dumontier and Raffournier, 1998, El-Gazzar et al, 1999; Cuijpers and Buijink, 2004) typically explain the early adoption of IFRS by firm-specific benefits. However, the adoption of IFRS also leads to costs for company insiders, namely less managerial discretion and as a consequence smaller private benefits due to increased disclosure requirements and less accounting method choices. This paper argues that the cost of adopting IFRS depends on characteristics of the institutional environment, more specifically the level of investor protection.Using a sample of European companies, we find that IFRS is more likely adopted in countries with strong laws protecting investors and/or extensive corporate governance recommendations where the loss of private benefits following IFRS-adoption is lower. Furthermore, the results show that corporate governance recommendations are as effective as hard laws in stimulating IFRS-adoption and that their impact increases as laws become weaker. This suggests that by improving corporate governance codes, countries can easily reduce the extraction of private benefits by managers and enhance the quality of the financial information. However, when looking at specific recommendations and laws, we find that shareholder rights with regard to voting rights and the general meeting need to be regulated by law in order to effectively reduce the level of private benefits.

Download or read book Governance matters VI aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996 2006 written by Daniel Kaufmann and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. This latest set of aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dimensions of governance taken from 33 data sources provided by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector, and nongovernmental organization experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. The paper also explicitly reports the margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. It finds that even after taking margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country comparisons, as well as monitoring progress over time. In less than a decade, a substantial number of countries exhibit statistically significant improvements in at least one dimension of governance, while other countries exhibit deterioration in some dimensions. The decade-long aggregate indicators, together with the disaggregated individual indicators, are available in a newly-redesigned website at www.govindicators.org.

Download or read book The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure written by Alessandro Ghio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure. Building upon prior academic literature, it assesses the most important changes in mandatory corporate disclosure, the growing relevance of social and environmental disclosure, and revolutionary new forms of corporate communication, in particular social media. It also includes empirical analyses that shed further light on the impact of voluntary communication, i.e. social and environmental reporting and corporate social media communication, on managerial and investment decisions. Lastly, it discusses new directions for accounting and corporate governance research on the theoretical and empirical challenges of corporate disclosure. Offering a wealth of relevant and timely advice, the book will help regulators design policies that allow businesses to overcome current and emerging economic, social, and technological challenges.

Download or read book The world price of earnings opacity written by Uptal Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Voluntary Adoption of IFRS on the Earning Quality and the Cost of Capital written by Dalia Ezzat and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this research is to investigate the direct relationship between the voluntary adoption of IFRS and cost of capital. Also, it investigates the indirect effect of earning quality on the voluntary adoption of IFRS and cost of capital. These relationships have been a very important issue and topic for researcher since IFRS became mandatory in EU at a beginning of 2005. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the nature of relationship between voluntary adoption of IFRS on the cost of capital and earning quality in Egypt and European firms. The sample is collected from the financial statements of 20 Egyptian and European firms as a secondary source of data. The 20 firms are classified into 10 adopting EAS in Egypt and the other 10 adopting IFRS in Europe from 2006 to 2015. The sample was from a range of industrial sectors. The results show that there is a negative relationship between voluntary adoption of IFRS and cost of capital. Costs of capital reduced in firms adopt EAS more than IFRS. Also, earning quality is not considered to be a mediator because it does not affect the relation of voluntary adoption of IFRS and cost of capital. However, there is a significant positive relationship between voluntary adoptions of IFRS on earning smoothness and accrual quality. Also, there is a negative relationship between earning quality and cost of capital.

Download or read book The Impact of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Investment Efficiency written by Ru Gao and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is followed by a decline in firms' sub-optimal investments. On average, we find that the probability of under-investment in capital expenditure declines for firms from 23 countries requiring mandatory adoption of IFRS relative to firms from countries that do not have such requirements; meanwhile the probability of over-investment remains unchanged. However, this real effect becomes smaller when we control for the concurrent changes to the enforcement of financial reporting along with the introduction of IFRS in some countries, suggesting that the switch in standards is only one of the drivers for the observed benefits. Moreover, we find that the reduction in sub-optimal investments is driven by firms with high reporting incentives to provide transparent financial reports from countries where the existing legal and enforcement systems are strong. We further show that the real effect increases with the predicted changes in accounting comparability. Further, we find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, capital investment becomes more value-relevant, less sensitive to the availability of free cash flows and more responsive to growth opportunities. Our findings provide new insights into the real effects of mandatory IFRS adoption.

Download or read book IFRS Adoption A Perceptual Study written by Pinky Dholakia and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) issued by the International Accounting Board (IASB) is increasingly being recognized as Global Reporting Standards. To-date there has been limited research conducted into the effects/implications of IFRS adoption. This leads us to study and implementation of IFRS for rapid growth of international trade and internationalization of firms. The present study aims to identify and evaluate the materiality of the impact of IFRS adoption on companies' financial position, performance of the financial year, examine individual standards and its effect on shareholders' equity. This research even seeks to contribute to the latest discussions on the financial reporting. It starts out by giving an overview of the IFRS accounting policies, which are currently applied by the majority of participants. We have proposed a model of study to find out the views of Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, Post Graduates, Doctorates and ICWA who are mainly concerned with the standards so that their acceptability towards IFRS can be assessed.

Download or read book Meta Analysis of the Impact of IFRS Adoption on Financial Reporting Comparability Market Liquidity and Cost of Capital written by Solomon Opare and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive number of empirical studies have been devoted to the adoption of IFRS but the results have been inconclusive. We use a meta-analysis of 42 empirical studies with 68 independent samples to determine whether IFRS adoption has impacted on financial reporting comparability, market liquidity, and the cost of capital. This approach provides a logical and objective view of the empirical results, in contrast to narrative reviews which offer subjective conclusions. We find that IFRS adoption has significantly increased financial reporting comparability and market liquidity, and reduced the cost of capital. However, our assessment of sources of heterogeneity shows that the above relationship is moderated by differences in modes of adoption, peculiarities in legal systems, the divergence of local GAAP from IFRS, and the level of standards and regulatory enforcement of the country in which a firm operates. This study is beneficial to regulators and policymakers of jurisdictions that are considering the adoption of IFRS.