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.

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 Accounting Standard-Setting Due Process, Corporate Consensus, and FASB Responsiveness: Employers' Accounting for Pensions

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia R. Saemann
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard Setting

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) uses a due process to ascertain the views of its constituents and to build consensus while setting standards based on a sound conceptual framework. This study examines the responsiveness of the FASB and its success in building consensus among corporations in the due process on Employers' Accounting for Pensions. The findings indicate that the FASB is influenced by the number of opposing comments filed by its corporate constituents. Further, there is evidence that consensus was built throughout the due process for the highly controversial standard.

The FASB’s Approach Toward Reviewing, Conducting and Sponsoring A cademic Research and to Engaging Academics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Zeff
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Setting Process

This is a historical account of the various approaches which the Financial Accounting Standards Board has used since 1973 in making use of academic research and in bringing academics into the standard-setting process.

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.

Comprehensive Income: Who's Afraid of Performance Reporting?

2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Smith Bamber ◽  
John (Xuefeng) Jiang ◽  
Kathy R. Petroni ◽  
Isabel Yanyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Location Choice ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Performance Reporting ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Income Reporting ◽  
Broad Cross Section

ABSTRACT: Firms can report comprehensive income in either an income-statement-like performance statement or the statement of equity. Traditional theories of contracting incentives cannot explain this reporting location choice that only affects where comprehensive income data appear, because the contractible values of net income, other comprehensive income items, and comprehensive income are exactly the same regardless of the location where the firm reports comprehensive income. Drawing on theory, analysis of comment letters, and results of survey-based and behavioral research, we identify two factors—equity-based incentives and concerns over job security—that help explain why most firms do not follow policymakers' preference to report comprehensive income in a performance statement. Our empirical evidence on a broad cross-section of firms shows that managers with stronger equity-based incentives and less job security are significantly less likely to use performance reporting. Overall, our study suggests that even though the reporting location choice is inconsequential in a traditional rational markets view, managers act as if they believe that comprehensive income reporting location matters.

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