THE CRISIS AND FAIR VALUES: ECHOES OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY DEBATES?

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garen Markarian
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Fair Value Measurement ◽  
Value Measurement ◽  
Secondary Characteristic

The recent global financial crisis has led to extensive criticism of the role of accounting and its use of fair value measurement in causing and spreading the crisis. This paper argues that the debate surrounding fair value vs. historic cost, and relevance versus reliability, is nothing new; it was at the center of early accounting discussions in the AAA (especially by A.C. Littleton and W.A. Paton), the AICPA (especially G.O. May), and the SEC. Although prominent accounting scholars and practitioners in postdepression 1929 focused on the use of historic cost, the paper discusses the decision of the IASB/FASB to move reliability to a secondary characteristic in its recent conceptual framework. This action ignores lessons learned from a century of research, teaching, and practice of accounting.

Role of Accounting and Audit in the Recent Financial Crisis

2013 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Alev Dilek Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Historical Cost ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Accounting ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis ◽  
Audit Reports

This study aims to assess the role of accounting and auditing in the recent financial crisis. After each crisis, there have been serious discussions concerning the reasons behind those crises. However, no consensus has yet been achieved until now. In this context, the analysis of the relationships among financial crisis, accounting, and auditing is of utmost importance in better evaluating the structural reasons behind the crisis. There are several points that this chapter aims to analyze to indicate the contributions of accounting and auditing to the recent global financial crisis. These points are: impacts of disregarding the main principles of accounting, the wide use of fair value accounting over cost-based accounting, incorrect and misleading financial and audit reports, applications of creative accounting, and lack of transparency and weaknesses of the auditing process. The debates generally concentrate on the use of fair value (mark-to-market) accounting in the financial reports as opposed to the historical cost method. It should be emphasized that accounting is very important as a key mechanism of market economies, because of its crucial role in the functioning of the markets in accordance with the public interest. The chapter concludes with several suggestions by taking the fact into consideration that accounting and auditing systems should be revised for the better protection of interests of the third parties such as investors, potential investors, and the state.

scholarly journals The relationship between the financial crisis and the measurement of fair value in financial statements

2014 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Birutė Gudonytė ◽  
Kristina Rudžionienė
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Value Evaluation ◽  
True Value ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Value Measurement

Literature suggests that the main goal of fair value evaluation is more reliable and relevant information disclosure to external users. However, in 2007, at the beginning of the global financial crisis, the benefits of fair value, as well as the opportunity to provide information about the true and fair view of a company, were called into question. Opponents of the fair value claim that the fair value was the main reason for the global financial crisis, but the advocates disagree; therefore, the correlation between the fair value and crisis is controversial. It reflects the problem of the thesis: how the system of fair value accounting influenced the financial crisis? Object of the paper: the method of true value measurement. Aim of the paper: to evaluate the measurement of fair value and its potential impact on the financial crisis in Lithuania. After analysing the evaluation of 25 Lithuanian listed companies by disclosure of fair value, it can be state that stock companies evaluate more property than liabilities by disclose the fair value. A correlation coefficient was determined while assessing the correlation between the application of fair value in financial reports and financial crisis in Lithuania, but it disapproved the correlation.

Role of Accounting and Audit in the Recent Financial Crisis

2013 ◽  
pp. 1496-1503
Author(s):  
Alev Dilek Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Historical Cost ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Accounting ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis ◽  
Audit Reports

This study aims to assess the role of accounting and auditing in the recent financial crisis. After each crisis, there have been serious discussions concerning the reasons behind those crises. However, no consensus has yet been achieved until now. In this context, the analysis of the relationships among financial crisis, accounting, and auditing is of utmost importance in better evaluating the structural reasons behind the crisis. There are several points that this chapter aims to analyze to indicate the contributions of accounting and auditing to the recent global financial crisis. These points are: impacts of disregarding the main principles of accounting, the wide use of fair value accounting over cost-based accounting, incorrect and misleading financial and audit reports, applications of creative accounting, and lack of transparency and weaknesses of the auditing process. The debates generally concentrate on the use of fair value (mark-to-market) accounting in the financial reports as opposed to the historical cost method. It should be emphasized that accounting is very important as a key mechanism of market economies, because of its crucial role in the functioning of the markets in accordance with the public interest. The chapter concludes with several suggestions by taking the fact into consideration that accounting and auditing systems should be revised for the better protection of interests of the third parties such as investors, potential investors, and the state.

scholarly journals Accounting measurement at fair value in the conditions of financial crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Vladimir Obradovic ◽  
Nemanja Karapavlovic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Accounting Measurement ◽  
The Impact

The subject of the paper is the role of fair value, as one of the accounting measurement attributes (measurement basis) of assets and liabilities in the statement of financial position, in the conditions of crisis, based on the experience with global financial crisis which appeared in 2008 in the US financial sector, and later spilled over into the real sector of that country, as well as, to a greater or lesser extent, to the rest of the world. The crisis has stimulated discussions in the scientific and professional community about the usefulness of using fair value and the impact of this measurement attribute on the appearance and widening of the crisis. The aim of the paper is to consider the impact of fair value application on the occurrence of the mentioned financial crisis. Qualitative research methodology based on the review of relevant literature in the field of research subject has been applied. A review of literature available to us has shown that there is no unique attitude about the role of fair value in the financial crisis which appeared in 2008. In that sense, opinions range from the one that fair value played little or no role in the financial crisis, over the opinion that it may have contributed to the acceleration of the crisis, to the opinion that it was one of its main causes and that it should be suspended. It is certain that fair value cannot be declared as the only financial crisis causer, and that there is no only one causer. Inadequate banking practices, risky behaviour of financial markets participants, inconsistent and insufficiently coordinated macroeconomic policies, inadequate structural reforms and omission of credit rating agencies dominantly caused the financial crisis and contributed to its spread.

scholarly journals Role of Corporate Governance in Increasing the Value Relevance of Earning and Fair Value Measurement of Non-Financial Asset in Indonesia Company

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Ananta Dian Pratiwi ◽  
Sutrisno Sutrisno ◽  
Aulia Fuad Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Fair Value Measurement ◽  
Value Measurement

Accounting information is one of many informations that is used in making decisions by investors. Accounting information has value relevance when the information raises investor reactions, meaning that the information is used for decision making that affects stock prices. This study aimed to examine the value relevance of earning value and the fair value measurement of non-financial assets, along with the role of corporate governance in increasing the value relevance of both informations. This study used 142 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2012-2017 as study samples. Moedaretd Regression Analysis was used as an analytical tool to test the relationship of study variables. The results showed that earning and the fair value measurement of non-financial assets had value relevance. Both of these informations are considered useful by investors for their decision making. Corporate governance was found to play a role in increasing the value relevance of earning and the fair value measurement of non-financial assets. Corporate governance is able to reduce agency conflicts that can cause information to be biased for investors. The existence of corporate governance provides assurance that informations has been fairly presented to investors, thereby increasing value relevance.

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