By: Ann Tarca, Melissa Moy and Richard D. Morris

This study examines the relationship between use of international accounting standards and companies’ source of finance. We Investigate the proposition contained in Nobes’ (1998) model which postulates ousider companies (those with a higher level of public finance) in weak equity-outsider markets (capital markets where public equity finance is not dominant source of finance) are more likely to change their type of accounting system from one focused on information for creditors and tax authorities to one that meets the needs of external financiers. We considered 176 German listed companies during the financial year 1999. Our result support Nobes’ (1998) model as we found companies with more ousider finance (represented by the proportion of shares held by outsiders and the amount of public debt) were more likely to use international standards (US GAAP or IAS). Considering companies’ choice of US GAAP or IAS, we found companies selecting US GAAP rather than IAS were more likely to have a higher level of outsider finance.

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by: Mingyi Hung and K.R. Subramanyam

This study investigates the effects of adopting International Accounting Standards (IAS) on financial statements and their value relevance for a sample of German firms during 1998 – 2002. By implementing an innovative research design we compare accounting numbers reported under German accounting rules (HGB) with those under IAS for the same set of firm-years, and document how IAS adoption changes key financial measures and the value relevance of financial statement information. While HGB is stakeholder-oriented and commonly viewed as a historical cost accounting model that emphasizes income smoothing, IAS is shareholder-oriented and generaly percieved as a fair-value accounting model that emphasizes balance sheet valuation. Consistent with these perceptions, we find that total assets and bok value of equity, as well as variablity of book value and net income, are significantly higher under IAS than HGB. In addition, we find that book value (net income) plays a greater (lesser) valuation role under IAS than under HGB. Finally, we find that while the IAS adjustments to book value are generally value relevant, the adjustments to income are generally value irrelevant. Our evidance provides new insights into the accounting differences between stakeholder-oriented and shareholder-oriented accounting systems and sheds light on the financial statement and valuation implications of adopting IAS in stakeholder-oriented economies, an issue that particularly important in the upcoming adoption of IAS by the European Community.

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By. Hollis Ashbaugh dan Morton Pincus

We investigate (1) whether the variation in accounting standards across national boundaries relative to International Accounting Standards (IAS) has an impact on the ability of financial analysts to forecast non-US firms’ earnings accurately, and (2) whether analyst forecast accuracy changes after firms adopt IAS. IAS are a set of financial reporting policies that typically require increased disclosure and restrict management’s choice of measurement methods relative to the accounting standards of our sample firms’ countries of domicile. We develop indexes of differences in countries’ accounting disclosure and measurement policies relative to IAS, and document that greater differences in accounting standards relative to IAS are significantly and positively associated with the absolute value of analyst earnings forecast errors. Further, we show that analyst forecast accuracy improves after firms adopt IAS. More specifically, after controlling for changes in the market value of equity, changes in analyst following, and changes in the number of news reports, we find that the convergence in firms’ accounting policies brought about by adopting IAS is positively associated with the reduction in analyst forecast errors.

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by: Mary Barth, Wayne Landsman dan Mark Lang

We compare characteristics of accounting data for firms that adopt International Accounting Standards (IAS) to a match sample of firms that do not to investigate whether reporting under IAS is associated with predictable differences in accounting quality and cost of capital. After IAS adoption, firms evidance less earnings management, more timely loss recognition, and more value relevance of accounting quality after adoption than before suggesting that IAS adoption is associated with an improvement in accounting quality. While more speculative, our result also provide weak evidance that IAS adoption firms may enjoy lower cost of capital after adoption than non-adoption firms, and a reduction in cost of capital following adoption. Overall, our result suggest an improvement in accounting quality associated with IAS adoption.

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By: Eli Bartov, Stephen R. Goldberg, Myung-Sun Kim

U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Accounting Standards (IAS) compete for Internastional acceptance as reporting standards for capital markets around the world and in the U.S. Currently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering the quality and acceptability of IAS, and has issued a Concept Release (SEC 2000), seeking advice on this issue. There is, however, only minimal market based evidance on the comparative quality of these two reporting regimes. In this research, we compare the value relevance of earnings produced under three accounting regimes, German GAAP, U.S. GAAP and IAS, by considering the association of stock returns and reported earnings as a mesure of quality of accounting standards.

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