The links among better financial reporting, better markets, and better economy and society are arguable, but they remain poorly understood. The addition of IFRS to the set of available alternatives may improve these linkages, but granting them monopoly status does not. Claims that the universal adoption of IFRS as a single set of high-quality principles-based standards will yield global compara...

This paper aims to examine whether the 2007 IFRS converged Chinese GAAP has improved the quality of accounting information for investors in the A-share market in China. We analyse investor’s reaction to financial information released pre and post IFRS convergence in China. Multiple regression analysis was employed using data from 309 listed Chinese companies. The findings of this study show tha...

We examine the causes and consequences of European real estate firms’ decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value information—reflected in more dispersed ownership—and a firm’s commitment to transparency increase the likelih...

South Africa is an important country within the continent of Africa. Its full adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2005 for listed firms is unique. In this paper, I study the effects of IFRS adoption on accounting quality. I define accounting quality as earnings quality and value relevance, and hypothesize that both will increase post IFRS adoption. In a variety of ...

The move towards internationalization of accounting encountered a great boost, when in 2002 EU delegated the IASB to provide the accounting standards to be applied inside its frontiers. Among the incentives of the standardization of accounting on the international level, is the reduction of the cost of capital. Romania made the move towards IFRS before EU, when the country was not yet a member ...

This study attempts to compare and highlight the major differences between International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with National Accounting Standards (NAS) in one of the developing nations, Iran. Over the past two decades, the Iranian accounting standards setter, Audit Organization, has decided to eliminate the differences between IFRS and...

There are two approaches which investors can exercise when using accounting information are commonly discussed, either to the use of financial reporting to value the company or the use of financial reporting to assess the management's stewardship of the company. Despite the fact that US GAAP, IFRS, and UK GAAP are all market oriented sets of accounting standards, both FASB and IASB are more inc...

people’s republic of china has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. this study focuses on “whether china should continue its ifrs-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the ifrs is more appropriate”? both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

This paper explores some of the key IFRS accounting considerations for payments by media companies to their customers.

This paper focuses on the importance of accounting harmonisation on foreign activities at a macroeconomic level. International Financing Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption is considered to reduce information costs among countries and is, therefore, an important way to encourage international trade in goods and investments. The fixed-effects vector decomposition (FEVD) procedure is used to esti...