Search results for "accounting conservatism"

Do Cross-Country Differences in Accounting Conservatism Explain Variations in the Degree of Investor Diversification?

2009

We show that the level of conditional accounting conservatism of foreign markets is significantly and positively associated with decisions to diversify portfolios internationally. This positive association could be either because conditional conservatism per se is attractive to international investors, or because the un-modelled factors that attract foreign investors to a country also cause these countries to adopt conditionally conservative accounting practices. However, if conditional conservatism serves to alleviate foreign investors’ concerns related to insiders having asymmetric access to information then one would also expect the chosen mode of entry into a foreign market (as foreign …

2015

This paper provides a commentary on the academic literature on accounting conservatism with a view to highlighting the insights of that literature that are potentially useful for accounting standar...

The influence of conditional conservatism on ownership dispersion: An international analysis

2013

ABSTRACTWe study the influence of conditional accounting conservatism on domestic investor diversification decisions. We argue that a conservative accounting system that promotes the dissemination of bad news and which constrains managers from engaging in opportunistic activities reduces the need for investors to concentrate their ownership, and consequently helps investors to diversify their investments. Through a country-level analysis we show that increased domestic conditional conservatism and higher domestic diversification opportunities lead to higher levels of domestic ownership diversification. Our results are robust to alternative estimates of conditional conservatism, and indicate…

Valeur boursière versus valeur comptable

2011

International audience; Cet article a pour objet d’apporter une explication à l’écart constaté entre la valeur comptable et la valeur boursière des sociétés. Nous avons supposé qu’il peut être expliqué par l’irrationalité et « l’auto-référentialité » du marché, ainsi que par l’incapacité du modèle comptable traditionnel à traduire la valeur de la firme. Nos résultats corroborent la majorité de nos hypothèses et montrent que la distorsion entre la valeur comptable et la valeur boursière est une conséquence directe de la comptabilité au coût historique, de la prudence comptable, de la non-activation des certains éléments immatériels, ainsi que de la mauvaise évaluation (mispricing) des titres…

Balance sheet versus earnings conservatism in Europe

2004

In this study we extend prior research on the international analysis of accounting conservatism (Joos and Lang, 1994; Ball et al., 2000; Giner and Rees, 2001), by examining the level of accounting conservatism across eight European countries (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Belgium), and assessing the statistical significance of the differences among them. The definitions of conservatism that we use are, on the one hand, the Feltham and Ohlson (1995) definition, which implies a persistent understatement of book value of shareholders' equity (balance sheet conservatism). On the other hand, we use the one proposed by Basu (1997), that is, a time…