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the present study is intended to examine the effect of accounting conservatism on firms’ non-profitability in tehran stock exchange in 48 unprofitable firms and 57 profitable firms over a period of seven years from 2001 to 2007. this study was conducted according to givoly and hayn model to measure accounting conservatism index in non-profitable and profitable) firms. data analysis performed wi...

In this dissertation we present an overview of the proposals of the International Accounting Standards Board for measurement of insurance assets and liabilities at market value. The Board has not yet finalised a standard for insurance contracts, but a Draft Statement of Principles has been published, providing indication of how fair value accounting will be implemented. We focus on life insuran...

In this paper, we analyze the social value of accounting objectivity in maintaining …nancial stability. Building on an early, in‡uential accounting study by Ijiri and Jaedicke (1966), we operationalize two informational properties, accuracy (free of collective bias) and objectivity (degree of consensus), in a correlated information structure and embed them into a model of runs on …nancial insti...