Enhanced disclosure of other comprehensive income and increased usefulness of net income: The implications of Accounting Standards Update 2011–05

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linna Shi ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
Nan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income

Academic Research and Standard-Setting: The Case of Other Comprehensive Income

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn L. Rees ◽  
Philip B. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Income Reporting ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Accounting Standard Setting

SYNOPSIS: This paper links academic accounting research on comprehensive income reporting with the accounting standard-setting efforts of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). We begin by discussing the development of reporting other comprehensive income, and we identify a significant weakness in the FASB's Conceptual Framework, in the lack of a cohesive definition of any subcategory of comprehensive income, including earnings. We identify several attributes that could help allocate comprehensive income between net income, other comprehensive income, and other subcategories. We then review academic research related to remaining standard-setting issues, and identify gaps in academic research where hypotheses could be developed and tested. Our objectives are to (1) stimulate standard-setters to better conceptualize what is meant by other comprehensive income and to distinguish it from earnings, and (2) stimulate researchers to develop and test hypotheses that might help in that process.

scholarly journals Comprehensive Income Options: A Detriment To Transparency

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Sudhakar S. Raju ◽  
Anthony L. Tocco
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Corporate Managers ◽  
Nonprofessional Investors ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 1997 compromised its belief that comprehensive income (CI) should be listed either in a combined statement of net income and CI or in a separate statement of CI and allowed corporations to choose using the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity (SCSE).  Of course, the latter option implies just as Jordan and Clark (2002) suggest, that CI is not a measure of financial performance.  Studies incorporating professional analysts by Hirst and Hopkins (1998) and a study of nonprofessional investors by Maines and McDaniel (2000) both conclude that format presentation matters and behaviors can be affected.  We believe that FASB should revisit the format structure of CI and eliminate the SCSE option, which was their initial intent before they compromised with corporate managers in 1997.  In addition, we believe that all items of other comprehensive income (OCI) – foreign currency translation adjustment, pension value adjustments and adjustment to securities-for-sale should be presented on an after-tax basis only in order to prevent investors from being forced to comb through the footnotes.

The Volatility of Other Comprehensive Income and Audit Fees

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua-Wei Huang ◽  
Steve Lin ◽  
K. Raghunandan
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
International Accounting Standards ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Inherent Risk ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Equity Price

SYNOPSIS The volatility in other comprehensive income (OCI) reflects how market-related price movements, such as exchange rate and equity price changes, affect a firm's future profits. Hence, firms with higher volatility of OCI are likely to have higher inherent risk. Using hand-collected data from 2002–2006, we find that the volatility of OCI is positively associated with audit fees and provides significant incremental explanatory power for audit fees over and above the level of OCI and the volatility of net income. We also find that the effect of the volatility of each component of OCI on audit fees is consistent with the prediction of how it might affect a firm's future profits. Our results support recent efforts by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to require firms to present separately OCI components that may affect future earnings from those that may not affect future earnings.

DİĞER KAPSAMLI GELİR KALEMLERİ İLE İŞLETMENİN PİYASA DEĞERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Serhan Gürkan ◽  
Yasemin Köse
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Gains And Losses

Other comprehensive income is the difference between net income as in the Income Statement and comprehensive income, and represents the certain gains and losses of the enterprise not recognized in the Profit or Loss Account. Value relevance of other comprehensive income is under discussion and considering other comprehensive income items all together might be misleading for financial performance. In the view of such information, discussing the value relevance of each other comprehensive income item, judgements are made.

Bridge over troubled water: Is it possible to define other comprehensive income?

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-87
Author(s):  
Thomas Ryttersgaard
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
The Core ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Accounting Principles ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Gains And Losses

Although other comprehensive income did not exist in the conceptual framework until 2018, it has been a part of IFRS for many years, and it has not been defined based on accounting theory. This paper considers arguments for the current use of other comprehensive income under IFRS and finds that matching and prudence are at the core of other comprehensive income in IFRS despite not being elements of the conceptual framework. This suggests that the concept of other comprehensive income exists because the IFRS standards are founded on a mix of balance sheet-based and income statement-based accounting principles. Based on the characteristics of other comprehensive income and the IASB's arguments for the recognition of gains and losses in other comprehensive income, this paper proposes a definition of other comprehensive income that can be used to ensure a uniform application of the concept across accounting standards and to reduce risks of inconsistency.

The Contrast Research of Presentation and Disclosure about other Comprehensive Income

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 5080-5084
Author(s):  
Xing Wei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
International Accounting ◽  
International Accounting Standards ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Income Reporting

This article compares and analyzes the distinguish between the accounting standards for enterprises in our country about other comprehensive income reporting and disclosure of financial accounting standards from the IAS (International Accounting Standards) and the FASB in the United States, through four aspects as the meaning of other comprehensive income, the concrete content and accounting, presentation and disclosure.

The Case Analysis of Presentation and Disclosure about other Comprehensive Income

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 4691-4694
Author(s):  
Xing Wei
Keyword(s):  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
International Accounting ◽  
International Accounting Standards ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
China National Petroleum Corporation ◽  
Year 2013

This article selects the financial statement established by the CNPC(China National Petroleum Corporation) for the year 2013 according to the Chinese accounting standard for business enterprises as an example, analysis of the problems of presentation and disclosure of other comprehensive income in our country, and contrast and analyze the stipulation about other comprehensive income presentation and disclosure stipulated by the IAS (International Accounting Standards) and FASB statements.

scholarly journals Corporate Reporting of Other Comprehensive Income

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Charles Mulford ◽  
Anna Babinets
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Gains And Losses

In this study, we examine the annual report filings of S&P 100 companies that report other comprehensive income/(loss) over the three-year period of 2013-2015. We seek to gain a deeper understanding of the components of other comprehensive income and to determine if there is a systematic tendency for companies to include more gains or losses in other comprehensive income. Further, we seek to determine which components of other comprehensive income show more unexpected losses than gains and what impact other comprehensive income gains and losses may have on future earnings.We find a systematic tendency for firms to report more losses than gains in other comprehensive income, both in frequency and amount. This result is especially true for investment-related gains and losses, where managements have more discretion in the timing of gain and loss recognition.In terms of their impact on future earnings, we find that 43 companies in the S&P 100 reclassified some component of accumulated other comprehensive income gains and losses to net income over the period 2013- 2015, highlighting the observation that other comprehensive income gains and losses are, in effect, future elements of net income. These results remind analysts and investors that net income does not tell the entire story of a firm’s financial performance. Beyond users of financial statements, regulators, such as the FASB and SEC, may want to reconsider whether items of other comprehensive income should be included in net income.

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