scholarly journals Did CEO’s Equity-Based Compensation Benefit Firms at All? – Evidence From the Regime Before Adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 123(R)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Min (Shirley) Liu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Agency Problem ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Compensation Method ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Sensitivity Tests ◽  
Accruals Quality ◽  
Reported Earnings

Previous studies documented empirical evidence that stock- and option-based compensation exacerbates the agency problem, which is opposite to the goal of awarding such kind of compensations to executives. If the stock- and option-based compensation is so bad, why did companies previously adopt such kind of compensation method. I use data from 1992-2005, a period before the adoption of FAS 123 (R), to examine whether the stock-based and option-based compensation benefits firms at all. I find that the firms, whose CEOs received higher values of stock- and option- compensations, have higher accruals quality and more predictable reported earnings, as well as enjoy lower implied costs of equity capital.These findings are robust to various sensitivity tests. The results indicate that such compensation method at least provided certain benefits to the firms.

Determinants and Consequences of Firms' Derivative Accounting Decisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Firm Risk ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Earnings Volatility ◽  
Hedge Accounting ◽  
Reported Earnings ◽  
Jel Classifications

ABSTRACTFinancial accounting standards require derivatives to be recognized at fair value with changes in value recognized immediately in earnings. However, if specified criteria are met, firms may use an alternative accounting treatment, hedge accounting, which is intended to better represent the underlying economics of firms' derivative use. Using FAS 161 disclosures, I examine determinants of hedge accounting use and the effects of hedge accounting on financial reporting and capital markets. I find variation in firms' hedge accounting use and provide evidence that compliance costs of applying hedge accounting affect firms' decision to use hedge accounting. Firms decrease their reported earnings volatility via derivatives that receive hedge accounting and could further decrease their earnings volatility if hedge accounting were applied to all their derivatives. Inconsistent with arguments given for using hedge accounting, I fail to find a decrease in investors' assessments of firm risk from using hedge accounting.JEL Classifications: M40; M41; G32.

scholarly journals Accounting for Stock Options

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Bulow ◽  
John B Shoven
Keyword(s):  
Stock Options ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reported Earnings

As public companies begin their new fiscal years, they are implementing a new and controversial Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB, 2004) proposal for expensing stock options. Applied to 2003 and 2004, this rule would have slashed reported earnings of the Standard & Poor's 500 by 8.6 and 7.4 percent; the effect in the bubble years would have been more than twice as large. We describe the history of how these options have been expensed for financial statement purposes. We assess the new FASB approach and find that it is deeply flawed. The main purpose of the paper is to describe an alternative options expense valuation method, the Bulow-Shoven approach, that addresses these problems. Our approach is simpler than the new FASB methodology, less prone to earnings manipulation and more consistent with the way the rest of compensation is treated in financial statements.

scholarly journals APAKAH MANAJEMEN LABA TERMASUK KECURANGAN ? : ANALISIS LITERATUR

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deddy Kurniawansyah
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Important Implication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Remedial Action ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Accounting Theory ◽  
Reported Earnings

Many maintain that earnings management is harmful. This literature study explains and describe the issue from the outside perspective of earnings management. This research method used qualitative with literature study. The results of this study are Earnings management is not a fraud. Fraud is an “act ofcriminal deception” or a “deceitfulbehavior which may be punished by law”. Earnings management is within legitimate constraints, implying that the deviation of reported earnings from underlying or economic earnings due to earnings management is legitimate or authorized by accounting standards and corporate laws.The results of this study contribute as add to the treasury of financial accounting literature, especially accounting theory. The results of this research have important implication for regulators and lawmakers. Regulators tend to regardearnings management as harmful and in the need ofimmediate remedial action. . 

scholarly journals APAKAH MANAJEMEN LABA TERMASUK KECURANGAN ? : ANALISIS LITERATUR

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deddy Kurniawansyah
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Important Implication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Remedial Action ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Accounting Theory ◽  
Reported Earnings

Many maintain that earnings management is harmful. This literature study explains and describe the issue from the outside perspective of earnings management. This research  method  used  qualitative  with  literature  study. The  results  of  this  study  are Earnings management is not a fraud. Fraud is an “act of criminal deception” or a “deceitful  behavior  which  may  be  punished  by  law”.  Earnings  management  is within legitimate constraints, implying that the deviation of reported earnings from underlying  or  economic  earnings  due  to  earnings  management  is  legitimate  or authorized by accounting standards  and corporate laws.  The results of this study contribute  as  add  to  the  treasury  of  financial  accounting  literature,  especially accounting  theory.  The  results  of  this  research  have  important  implication  for regulators  and  lawmakers.  Regulators  tend  to  regard  earnings  management  as harmful and in the need of immediate remedial action.

Pengakuan Pendapatan dan Biaya dalam Kaitannya dengan Penentuan Laba Perusahaan Ekspedisi (Studi Kasus pada PT. EMKL Jelutung Subur)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yuli Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Recognition Method ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Storage Service ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Accrual Basis

Revenue and cost recognitions is the most important thing to be done by an entity,  time and the recognition method must be based on the rules from Financial Accounting Standards. Revenue and cost recognition which is done by PT. EMKL Jelutung Subur located on Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung province is done by using the accrual basis, and it can be seen with its influences to company profits every year.  This research is useful to get a data and information for preparing this thesis and improving my knowledge and also for comparing between theories accepted against facts applied in the field.  The result of this research shows that PT. EMKL Jelutung Subur has implemented one of the revenue and cost recognition method (accrual basis) continually, so that profit accuracy is accountable to be used for developing this kind of expedition business in order to become a better company. The accuracy is evaluated because all revenues received and cost spent  have clear evidence and found in the period of time.  The evaluation shows there is one thing that miss from revenue and cost recognition done by PT. EMKL Jelutung Subur, that is charge to the customers who use the storage service temporary, because some customers keep their goods for a long time in the warehouse, and it will increase the costs of loading, warehouse maintenance, damaged goods and decreasing a quantity of goods. If the storage service is charged to the customers, PT. EMKL Jelutung Subur will earn additional revenue to cover all the expenses above

The Adoption of Financial Accounting Standards for Small Medium Enterprises by Muslim Entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Muslichah Muslichah ◽  
Sunarto Sunarto ◽  
Anang Amir Kusnanto ◽  
Sri Indrawati ◽  
Hariyanto Hariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Chartered Accountants ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study aims to discuss the adoption of financial reporting and accounting standards for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) by Muslim entrepreneurs. A structured questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data from the SME owners. 214 Muslim owners of SME businesses participated in the survey. The results show that only a few Muslim entrepreneurs prepared financial reports regularly. The main reason for preparing the statement is for calculating tax, borrowing money, and decision making. An unexpected finding from this study is that most of the Muslim owners are unaware of Standard for SMEs. Users of SME financial reports include tax authority, banks, and owners, or shareholders. This study enriches the financial reporting studies by examining the accounting standards for SMEs in a Muslim dominated country. The findings of this study also have implications for the Institute of Indonesia chartered accountants (IICA) as standard setter. IICA must routinely disseminate these standards to SMEs and also assist them in preparing financial reports

AN ACCOUNTANT'S EDUCATION

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Staubus
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Decision Usefulness ◽  
Market Simulation ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
The University

This is a review of how various experiences in my career have contributed to my understanding of accounting. I recall the circumstances surrounding several of my efforts towards the development of accounting theories, viz. (1) decision-usefulness theory, (2) activity costing, and (3) market simulation accounting, as well as my excursion into (4) market association research in seeking to validate decision-usefulness theory and (5) a search for the effects of firms' economic environments on the development of enterprise accounting in the 2nd millennium, C.E. I give my impressions of several of the important players in the evolution of accounting thought in the 20th century with whom I was closely associated, such as Vatter, Moonitz, Chambers, and Sterling, as well as other prominent figures in the broad field of accounting. Some of my gains from associations with three institutions—the American Accounting Association, The University of Chicago, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board—are identified. I conclude with a few summary thoughts on what I have learned.

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