Assessing the Financial Reporting Consequences of Conversion to IFRS: The Case of Equity-Based Compensation

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Lea McAnally ◽  
Sean T. McGuire ◽  
Connie D. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Tax Benefits ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Accounting Reports

SYNOPSIS: The potential conversion of accounting standards from U.S. GAAP to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) raises the issue of unknown financial reporting consequences. We consider one important accounting issue, namely equity-based compensation, and study how IFRS conversion will affect financial statements and the quality of reported numbers. The difference between the two standards is that IFRS reports tax benefits from equity-based compensation at their intrinsic value each period. This amounts to quasi fair-value accounting under IFRS compared to historic-cost accounting under GAAP. We develop and compare pro forma GAAP and IFRS accounting reports for a broad cross section of U.S. firms. We find that IFRS yields lower deferred tax assets and recognized tax benefits for approximately two-thirds of the option grants in our sample. Moreover, reported tax items will be more volatile under IFRS and these effects will be more pronounced for firms with greater option use and stock price volatility. Importantly, we find that IFRS tax items are better able to predict future cash flows. One conclusion is that IFRS improves the relevance, and thereby, the quality, of at least some reported numbers.

scholarly journals Libya’s IAS/IFRS Adoption and Accounting Quality: What Lessons from the European Union Experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeb Masoud
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Accounting Quality ◽  
Ifrs Adoption ◽  
Accounting Reports

This study provides a review of the literature on adoption of IAS/IFRS in Libya, the time the IFRS standards decision is made in EU countries and the time IAS/IFRS adoption becomes undertaking in Libyan economy. The adoption of IAS/IFRS in Europe on the quality of financial reporting is an example of accounting standardisation among countries with different institutional frameworks and implementation rules. Impacts of this adoption in Libya will gain many benefit include the improve quality of financial reporting, less earnings management, more comparability, and provide more reliable, accurate, transparency, and high relevance for stock price determination of financial accounting information. These findings could be fruitful and helpful for outside users of accounting reports and also for regulators and legislators in their attempts to constrain the incidence of earnings accounting practises and to enhance the quality of accounting information. To explore the relevance (applicability) of international accounting standards to developing countries such as Libya is a topic of significant interest amongst disclosure (non-accounting information) users. This is a key subject for standard setting purposes as IAS/IFRS have been adopted in many different nations all over the world, and many others are likely to adopt them in the near future (including, Libya). Finally the main limitations of this study are outlined and opportunities for future research are discussed, particularly in relation to this study’s findings about the requirement to reconsider the usefulness of the relationship between accounting practices and framework adoption of IAS/IFRS in Libya.

Does Mandatory Adoption of IFRS Enhance Earnings Quality? Evidence From Closer to Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal V. Krishnan ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Mandatory Adoption ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Accounting Convergence

The global accounting convergence and the often discussed probable adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. regulators is a timely topic. We contribute to the literature by examining a more recent mandatory IFRS adoption by Canada. Canadian GAAP (CGAAP) is often considered a close substitute for U.S. GAAP. One key feature of this setting is that two earnings numbers are available for fiscal year 2010 since Canadian firms were required to reconcile earnings under CGAAP with earnings under IFRS. We run a “horse race” of earnings quality between earnings under CGAAP and IFRS. We find that on average, relative to IFRS-earnings, earnings under CGAAP have greater association with next period cash flows and higher degree of persistence. Further, when the difference between earnings under CGAAP and IFRS is large, IFRS-earnings are less value-relevant and less persistent. These results strongly support the notion that higher earnings quality is associated with CGAAP. Finally, the results also indicate that differences between CGAAP and IFRS with regard to accounting for financial instruments and investments significantly impair the quality of IFRS-earnings. Our findings are potentially informative to any revival of policy debates on the possible adoption of IFRS by U.S. firms.

The Potential Impact of More Frequent Financial Reporting and Assurance: User, Preparer, and Auditor Assessments (Retracted)

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Hunton ◽  
Arnold M. Wright ◽  
Sally Wright
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Decision Usefulness ◽  
Consensus Forecasts

The purpose of this study is to examine some of the potential impacts of more frequent financial reporting and concurrent assurance, as assessed by members of the assurer, preparer, and investor communities. Two hundred and fifteen participants (84 auditors, 30 controllers, 80 investors, as surrogated by MBA students, and 21 sell-side analysts) took part in an experiment where they received a case situation involving a company that was planning to voluntarily change from quarterly to monthly (daily) external financial statement reporting, without (with) assurance. After reading the case materials, the participants assessed the likely effects of such changes on the decision usefulness of financial statements, quality of earnings, financial reporting behavior, stock market price volatility, analysts' consensus forecasts, and cost of capital. The results indicate that monthly reporting without assurance would significantly enhance the decision usefulness of financial statements, improve the quality of earnings, and reduce managements' aggressiveness with respect to discretionary accounting accruals, estimates, and principles; further, the findings suggest stock price volatility would be lower, analyst consensus of future earnings estimates would increase, and cost of capital would decrease. Assessments of daily reporting were consistent with monthly reporting, yet significantly stronger. The inclusion of concurrent auditor assurance resulted in directionally consistent yet significantly pronounced results in both monthly and daily reporting conditions on all measures. Additionally, participants agreed that providing monthly reports would be technically and economically feasible at this time, while daily reporting would not be feasible.

scholarly journals Trend Of Earnings Quality Under IFRS Era: In Case Of Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaegyung Jung
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Accrual Quality ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
The Difference

Korea has decided to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) since 2011 in order to enhance quality of financial accounting information. However, there are certain issues that fair value accounting of IFRS may deteriorate earnings quality. I investigate whether the proxies of earnings quality used in Francis et al. (2004) such as persistence, predictability, accrual quality, and smoothness are influenced after the adoption of IFRS in Korea. I find that the trend of persistence and predictability quality shows decreasing patterns over time, suggesting that the deterioration of consistency with local GAAP may have a negative impact on the proxies of earnings quality. However, the difference of earnings quality between in post-IFRS era and pre-IFRS is not significant. In other words, trend of earnings quality after the adoption of IFRS is improved. My results mean that the trend of earnings quality in Korea shows V-shaped line, indicating that IFRS is well established and successful accounting standards in Korean capital market.

Discretion in Financial Reporting: The Voluntary Adoption of Fair Value Accounting for Employee Stock Options

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahlia Robinson ◽  
Diane Burton
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Employee Stock Options ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
Accounting Reports ◽  
Voluntary Adoption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Is Value

This paper investigates the market reaction to announcements by firms of their decision to adopt the fair value provisions of SFAS No. 123 in accounting for their employee stock option (ESO) expense. Additionally, this paper examines ESO usage and expense of adopting firms and compares the impact of the expense on profitability measures for adopting firms relative to a matched set of control firms. We find a positive and significant abnormal return in the three days around the adoption announcements, suggesting that the decision to expense using the fair value method is value relevant. The positive abnormal announcement returns are mainly attributable to the earlier announcements, consistent with early announcements serving as a credible signal of a commitment to transparency in financial reporting. We find evidence that in the three years prior to the announcement year, adopting firms report significantly higher earnings than control firms yet fail to earn higher market returns, suggesting that adopters stand to benefit the most by improving the market's perception of their accounting reports. We also find that ESO usage, ESO expense, and the impact of ESO expense on profitability are significantly lower for adopters relative to control firms, although the impact of ESO expense is economically significant for 43 percent of the adopters.

scholarly journals Do Reconciliations Of Segment Earnings Affect Stock Prices?

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Hollie ◽  
Shaokun Carol Yu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Segment Disclosures

While SFAS No. 131 is intended to increase the transparency of financial reporting using a management approach, it may reduce shareholders ability to interpret segment disclosures relative to the industry approach employed under SFAS No.14. This study investigates whether segment reconciliation differences affect stock prices and whether abnormal returns can be earned using information about two components of earnings: aggregated segment earnings and segment earnings reconciliations. We compute reconciliations as the difference between firm-level consolidated earnings and aggregated segment-level earnings. Firms that report negative SERs have greater sales and profitability, greater return on equity, as well as more operating cash flows and firm growth. This suggests that firms that report aggregated segment earnings greater than firm-level consolidated earnings may be better off financially. Our findings show that mispricing does occur when firms report positive SERs by the market, underestimating the segment earnings reconciliation component of earnings persistence. Investors can also earn positive abnormal returns when investors take a long (short) position with the portfolio with the highest (lowest) absolute SERs. On the contrary, we find investors earn negative abnormal returns when firms report negative SERs. Collectively, this study provides evidence that mispricing occurs and that investors over/underestimate the importance and/or persistence of segment earnings reconciliations.

scholarly journals The expected impact of applying IFRS (17) insurance contracts on the quality of financial reports

Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 581-590
Author(s):  
Ahmad Dahiyat ◽  
Walid Owais
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Faithful Representation ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standard ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Analytical Approaches

This study aimed to explore the expected effect of applying the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 Insurance Contracts on the quality of financial reports. The study followed the exploratory descriptive analytical approaches. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to a sample of 120 financial employees in all insurance companies in Jordan. It concluded that the expected impact of applying the standard on the quality of financial reports was significant, especially on the comparability of financial reports, and faithful representation. It was found that there is an expected, statistically significant and positive effect between the application of the standard, and the quality of financial reports in general, and the expected influence of applying the standard and each of comparability, faithful representation, relevance, verifiability, timely, and understandability respectively. The study recommends the application of the standard in the specified time, work to create appropriate conditions, and the need to follow objective assumptions from the company's management for the estimation of cash flows when applying the standard.

scholarly journals Internet Financial Reporting: Studi Komparasi Bank Umum Syariah Di Indonesia Dan Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 886
Author(s):  
Taqiyah Dinda Insani ◽  
Noven Suprayogi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
T Test ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Financial Reporting Quality ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
The Difference

The purpose of this study was to determine the differences of Internet Financial Reporting Quality. This study was using quantitative approach with independent sample t test and mann whitney u test. The population of this study was official website of islamic banks in Indonesia and Malaysia. determination of the number of samples using (sampling jenuh), where all of the population is used as a sampel. Data that being used was secondary data. The data was collected from official website of the sentral banks in each country. The result of this study showed that there was significant differences of Internet Fianncial Reporting Quality between Indonesia and Malaysia. The difference is caused there are significant differences between the quality of content and timeliness components. Meanwhile, there is no differences between technology and user support components.

scholarly journals ФОРМУВАННЯ ОБЛІКОВОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ ЗА ПРИНЦИПОМ БЕЗПЕРЕРВНОСТІ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Олена Сергіївна Юрченко
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Value ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Accounting Policy

Formulation of the problem. Based on the study, the prerequisites, features and components of the formation of accounting policies in the context of business continuity are revealed. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical and methodological and organizational provisions of accounting policy formation in the context of the implementation of the concept of continuity. The object of research is the process of formation of accounting policy and its impact on the quality of corporate financial reporting information. Methods used in the study: scientific knowledge, method of generalization, comparison, logical - meaningful, methods of induction and deduction. The main hypothesis is that the formation of accounting policies aimed at determining the regulations of accounting and reporting from the standpoint of reflecting complete and reliable information about the real value of assets and liabilities will help reconcile the interests of all stakeholders. Presenting main material. The article identifies the prerequisites, directions and elements of the formation of accounting policies on the principle of continuity of enterprises. Provisions on the development of theoretical and methodological foundations for the formation of accounting policies of enterprises on the basis of risk-oriented approach are revealed. The necessity of valuation of assets and liabilities according to the criteria: fair, discounted and market value of enterprises is substantiated and the methodological support of valuation of financial instruments in accounting is revealed. Originality and practical significance are proposals for the formation of methodological and organizational support and recommendations for the measurement of assets and liabilities at fair value in order to improve the quality of financial statements. Research findings. The formation of accounting policy in the context of the principle of continuity is based on the requirements of International Accounting Standards and National Accounting Standards and depends on the needs of management, methods and techniques of accounting. In the process of developing an accounting policy, it is necessary to take into account the information needs of various stakeholders to disclose information in corporate financial statements. The introduction of theoretical and methodological provisions for the formation of elements of accounting policy on the principle of continuity will meet the information needs of different users, improve the quality of financial reporting and assess the impact of accounting policies on the real value of enterprises in the future.

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