Residual Income Compensation Plans and Deferred Taxes

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Bastian Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Investment Model ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Residual Income ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Deferred Taxes ◽  
Incentive Alignment ◽  
Compensation Plans ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Performance Metric ◽  
Accounting Numbers

ABSTRACT: Residual income is a popular performance metric that is often calculated from financial accounting numbers. Practitioners argue that financial accounting earnings and book value suffer from various biases and should be adjusted prior to the residual income calculation so that the resulting residual income metric will have better incentive properties, but they often disagree about what the adjustments should be. Using the criterion that a residual income performance metric should align owner and managerial investment incentives, I develop a simple investment model to show how financial accounting choices and adjustments must be chosen jointly to achieve incentive alignment. In particular, I examine conflicting recommendations from the practitioner literature about the proper adjustment for deferred taxes and show that more than one adjustment method can achieve incentive alignment if paired with the correct depreciation schedule. Further, I show that relationships among accounting variables introduce constraints that make some policies or adjustments more difficult to work with. The paper concludes with a brief discussion about how the use of sub-optimal adjustments can negatively influence the manager’s investment incentives.

Implementing Residual Income Valuation With Linear Information Dynamics

1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
James N. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Residual Income ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Information Dynamics ◽  
No Arbitrage ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Residual Income Valuation ◽  
Accounting Numbers ◽  
Linear Information

Residual income (RI) valuation is a method of estimating firm value based on expected future accounting numbers. This study documents the necessity of using linear information models (LIMs) of the time series of accounting numbers in valuation. I find that recent studies that make ad hoc modifications to the LIMs contain internal inconsistencies and violate the no arbitrage assumption. I outline a method for modifying the LIMs while preserving internal consistency. I also find that when estimated as a time series, the LIMs of Ohlson (1995), and Feltham and Ohlson (1995) provide value estimates no better than book value alone. By comparing the implied price coefficients to coefficients from a price level regression, I find that the models imply inefficient weightings on the accounting numbers. Furthermore, the median conservatism parameter of Feltham and Ohlson (1995) is significantly negative, contrary to the model's prediction, for even the most conservative firms. To explain these failures, I estimate a LIM from a more carefully modeled accounting system that provides two parameters of conservatism (the income parameter and the book value parameter). However, this model also fails to capture the true stochastic relationship among accounting variables. More complex models tend to provide noisier estimates of firm value than more parsimonious models.

scholarly journals Valuation properties of accounting numbers in Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Alexsandro Broedel Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Residual Income ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Residual Income Model ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Accounting Numbers ◽  
Dividend Distribution ◽  
Comparable Performance ◽  
Income Model

This work investigates the valuation properties of accounting numbers in Brazil under three traditional frameworks: earnings capitalization, book value of equity and residual income. The sample was selected from companies traded at the São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) from 1995 to 1999, dividing the sample in two groups: companies with preferred and with common shares. My results show that the earnings capitalization model did not perform well for common shares and have a better performance for preferred shares because of the mandatory dividend distribution as a percentage of net income in Brazil and because earnings have no use as information asymmetry reducers in Brazil. The book value model performed better for common shares while residual income had a comparable performance and seems to be the dominant accounting-based valuation model for common shares. For preferred shares the residual income model performs better. The residual income term alone presents no significant difference for the two sets of companies. For both set of companies accounting income did not incorporated economic income.

scholarly journals Deferred Tax Accounting Concepts and Their Bond to the Accounting Ideologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
A. A. Aksent’ev
Keyword(s):  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Deferred Taxes ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Domestic Practice ◽  
Important Object ◽  
Deferred Tax ◽  
Tax Accounting

Deferred taxes are an important object of accounting observation to judge the degree of discrepancies between financial and tax accounting. Meanwhile, the information discloses to users the effects arising from the tax planning tools usage for corporate management and forecasting cash outflows associated with the payment of income tax in the future. The paper formalized two concepts of accounting for deferred taxes in the form of models: temporary and timing differences associated with accounting ideologies. The author ha structured the logic of reflecting deferred taxes on accounting accounts using the balance sheet and “cost” methods. Analysis of foreign experience and domestic practice made it possible to conclude that there are controversial issues on the assessment of deferred taxes in reporting, including at present value. Also, the author revealed discrepancies in Russian Accounting Standard (PBU) 18/02 which were conceptually different from a similar international standard and conflicting with it in a number of theoretical and methodological positions. The research results are aimed at scientific and practical workers in the field of financial accounting, taxation and audit.

scholarly journals Perlakuan Akuntansi Aset Tetap Berdasarkan SAK ETAP Pada PT Asia Pacific Energindo Di Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Pratiwi Nila Sari
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
Fixed Asset ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Operational Activities

This study aims to analyze the accounting treatment of fixed assets for recognition, measurement, depreciation, termination, and presentation and disclosure at PT. Asia Pacific Energindo on the list of fixed assets in 2017. Tests are carried out by analyzing the extent to which the company has implemented a fixed asset accounting policy based on the Entity Financial Accounting Standards without Public Accountability (SAK ETAP) Chapter 15 in the company's operational activities. This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis method that is to thoroughly describe the fixed asset accounting policies applied to PT. Asia Pacific Energindo in Jakarta and compared to SAK ETAP Chapter 15. The results of this study indicate that the recognition, measurement, depreciation, termination, and presentation and disclosure of fixed assets in practice are in accordance with the Entity Financial Accounting Standards without Public Accountability (SAK ETAP). Depreciation method uses a straight-line method, fixed assets are discontinued or released from usage then the book value is calculated and then all accounts related to the asset are written off. The presentation of accumulated depreciation is carried out separately for all fixed assets so that it can be seen directly how much accumulated depreciation for each group of fixed assets. This treatment makes it easier to read financial statements. For those who need financial statements, it will be easy to know some of the accumulated amount of the fixed assets in question and the book value of each of the asset groups. Keywords: Accounting, Fixed Assets, SAK ETAP chapter 15 Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perlakuan akuntansi aset tetap atas pengakuan, pengukuran, penyusutan, penghentian dan penyajian serta pengungkapan pada PT. Asia Pacific Energindo pada daftar aset tetap tahun 2017. Pengujian dilakukan dengan menganalisis sejauh mana perusahaan telah menerapkan kebijakan akuntansi aset tetap berdasarkan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan Entitas Tanpa Akuntanbilitas Publik (SAK ETAP) Bab 15 dalam aktivitas operasional perusahaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif yaitu menjabarkan secara menyeluruh terhadap kebijakan akuntansi aset tetap yang diterapkan pada PT. Asia Pacific Energindo di Jakarta dan dibandingkan dengan SAK ETAP Bab 15. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa pengakuan, pengukuran, penyusutan, penghentian dan penyajian serta pengungkapan aset tetap dalam prakteknya sudah sesuai dengan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan Entitas Tanpa Akuntanbilitas Publik (SAK ETAP). Metode penyusutan menggunakan metode garis lurus, aset tetap dihentikan atau dilepaskan dari pemakaian maka dihitung nilai bukunya untuk kemudian semua akun yang berhubungan dengan aset tersebut dihapuskan. Penyajian akumulasi penyusutannya dilakukan secara terpisah atas seluruh aset tetap, sehingga dapat dilihat langsung berapa akumulasi penyusutan untuk masing-masing kelompok aset tetap. Perlakuan seperti ini mempermudah membaca laporan keuangan. Bagi yang membutuhkan laporan keuangan, akan mudah mengetahui beberapa jumlah akumulasi terhadap aset tetap yang bersangkutan dan nilai buku dari masing-masing kelompok aset tersebut. Kata kunci: Akuntansi, Aset Tetap, SAK ETAP Bab 15

The FASB and Accounting for Economic Reality

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Accounting Numbers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Reality

The proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 2002 to produce principles-based accounting standards is an explicit commitment to use its conceptual framework to improve financial accounting. In effect, it is a proposal to assist accounting for economic reality. However, an evaluation of the proposal and related FASB communications reveals a global strategy more concerned with achieving comparability and consistency than identifying improved ways of recognizing and representing socially-constructed reality by accounting numbers. The paper examines the philosophical notions of social reality and truthful correspondence in light of principles-based accounting standards and suggests that the FASB's superficial use of its conceptual framework in this respect is consistent with a history of conceptual frameworks as means of legitimating standard setting activities. As such, the FASB proposal would be no more than a short-term palliative to the long-term ills of financial accounting world-wide. The paper recommends a better understanding of the construction and representation of social reality by all concerned with the world of financial accounting.

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