This document provides a summary of an academic journal article titled "Accounting Management by International Standards". The summary discusses how international accounting standards can promote harmonization and globalization by standardizing accounting management practices across borders. It notes that international standards can help multinational companies consolidate financial reporting and reduce costs. The adoption of uniform standards also increases transparency and reduces information asymmetry between managers and shareholders. However, the positive effects of international standards depend on the appropriate institutional background of individual countries. Overall, the summary examines the role of international accounting standards in areas like the division of labor, financial innovation, and business management.
International Accounting - Introduction, Meaning, definition, Scope and NeedsSundar B N
International accounting involves accounting for transactions between countries, comparing accounting principles and practices across countries, and providing useful financial information from a global perspective. It has a wide scope, including recording foreign transactions, translating currencies, consolidating international financial statements, managing exchange rate risk, accounting for new financial instruments, and ensuring consistent reporting and disclosure globally. International accounting aims to harmonize practices internationally to facilitate informed decision-making and efficient capital allocation across borders.
International accounting comparative accounting Europe (ch3)Mohammed Alashi
This document discusses accounting practices in 5 European countries: France, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and the UK. It describes the regulatory bodies that set standards in each country, the required financial reporting elements, and key accounting measurements and principles. Some similarities and differences between the countries include historical cost basis, treatment of goodwill, research/development costs, and inventory valuation methods. IFRS adoption varies, with listed companies in Germany and some Dutch companies using IFRS.
Factors impeding international accounting standardslarrotci
International differences in financial accounting standards arise due to various economic, historical, institutional and cultural factors across countries. The major causes of differences include sources of finance, legal systems, taxation, political/economic ties, inflation, economic development levels, education levels and culture. Countries with common law tend to have more flexible standards set by independent organizations, while code law countries have stricter government-set standards focused on creditor protection and tax calculation. Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards has reduced some cross-country differences.
This document summarizes a paper that discusses ways to better measure a country's total income by accounting for factors not captured in official statistics, such as underground economies. It outlines four main issues in income measurement according to the OECD: 1) accounting for illegal activities, 2) measuring depreciation of capital, 3) enabling international GDP comparisons, and 4) accounting for environmental costs. The document then focuses on proposed methods for estimating the size of underground economies using currency demand approaches, adjusting for purchasing power parity in international GDP comparisons, and producing satellite accounts to incorporate environmental impacts.
This document discusses the balance of payments, which measures all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents. It is made up of the current account (trade in goods/services and income) and the financial/capital account (trade in financial assets). Imbalances in the balance of payments can impact a country's exchange rate, interest rates, and inflation. The degree of capital mobility also influences flows of financial capital in the balance of payments.
The balance of payments is a measurement of all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents over the course of a year. It is composed of the current account, which measures transactions with income or payment flows within one year like trade in goods and services, and the capital/financial account, which measures transactions of financial assets like foreign direct investment. A country will experience a balance of payments surplus if demand for its currency is high and a deficit if supply is high, affecting its exchange rate.
The Balance of Payments (BOP) measures all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents. It includes transactions in the current account (exports, imports, income, transfers) and financial account (direct investment, portfolio investment, other investment). While the BOP must balance, imbalances occur due to errors and misreporting. Monitoring the BOP helps policymakers understand a country's international economic activity and detect trends in areas like trade balances, capital flows, and currency pressures.
The document provides an overview of accounting and financial reporting for governmental and nonprofit entities. It discusses the key characteristics and objectives of financial reporting for these organizations, which differ from for-profit entities in their lack of profit motive and resource providers. The authoritative bodies that set standards for governmental and nonprofit accounting are also identified. An overview of the key elements of a comprehensive annual financial report for a state or local government is given, including the government-wide statements, fund statements, and statistical section.
International Accounting - Introduction, Meaning, definition, Scope and NeedsSundar B N
International accounting involves accounting for transactions between countries, comparing accounting principles and practices across countries, and providing useful financial information from a global perspective. It has a wide scope, including recording foreign transactions, translating currencies, consolidating international financial statements, managing exchange rate risk, accounting for new financial instruments, and ensuring consistent reporting and disclosure globally. International accounting aims to harmonize practices internationally to facilitate informed decision-making and efficient capital allocation across borders.
International accounting comparative accounting Europe (ch3)Mohammed Alashi
This document discusses accounting practices in 5 European countries: France, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and the UK. It describes the regulatory bodies that set standards in each country, the required financial reporting elements, and key accounting measurements and principles. Some similarities and differences between the countries include historical cost basis, treatment of goodwill, research/development costs, and inventory valuation methods. IFRS adoption varies, with listed companies in Germany and some Dutch companies using IFRS.
Factors impeding international accounting standardslarrotci
International differences in financial accounting standards arise due to various economic, historical, institutional and cultural factors across countries. The major causes of differences include sources of finance, legal systems, taxation, political/economic ties, inflation, economic development levels, education levels and culture. Countries with common law tend to have more flexible standards set by independent organizations, while code law countries have stricter government-set standards focused on creditor protection and tax calculation. Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards has reduced some cross-country differences.
This document summarizes a paper that discusses ways to better measure a country's total income by accounting for factors not captured in official statistics, such as underground economies. It outlines four main issues in income measurement according to the OECD: 1) accounting for illegal activities, 2) measuring depreciation of capital, 3) enabling international GDP comparisons, and 4) accounting for environmental costs. The document then focuses on proposed methods for estimating the size of underground economies using currency demand approaches, adjusting for purchasing power parity in international GDP comparisons, and producing satellite accounts to incorporate environmental impacts.
This document discusses the balance of payments, which measures all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents. It is made up of the current account (trade in goods/services and income) and the financial/capital account (trade in financial assets). Imbalances in the balance of payments can impact a country's exchange rate, interest rates, and inflation. The degree of capital mobility also influences flows of financial capital in the balance of payments.
The balance of payments is a measurement of all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents over the course of a year. It is composed of the current account, which measures transactions with income or payment flows within one year like trade in goods and services, and the capital/financial account, which measures transactions of financial assets like foreign direct investment. A country will experience a balance of payments surplus if demand for its currency is high and a deficit if supply is high, affecting its exchange rate.
The Balance of Payments (BOP) measures all international economic transactions between residents of a country and foreign residents. It includes transactions in the current account (exports, imports, income, transfers) and financial account (direct investment, portfolio investment, other investment). While the BOP must balance, imbalances occur due to errors and misreporting. Monitoring the BOP helps policymakers understand a country's international economic activity and detect trends in areas like trade balances, capital flows, and currency pressures.
The document provides an overview of accounting and financial reporting for governmental and nonprofit entities. It discusses the key characteristics and objectives of financial reporting for these organizations, which differ from for-profit entities in their lack of profit motive and resource providers. The authoritative bodies that set standards for governmental and nonprofit accounting are also identified. An overview of the key elements of a comprehensive annual financial report for a state or local government is given, including the government-wide statements, fund statements, and statistical section.
Government And Not-For-Profit Accounting Concepts And Practices 7th Edition G...NathanielsIs
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Companies are facing a proliferation of transfer pricing documentation demands. While the new requirements set out in the OECD’s Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan will raise the bar still further, they could also provide the catalyst for the development of a more sustainable approach. http://bit.ly/1htg32Z
The WFE published its annual IOMA Derivatives Report, which shows that overall derivatives contracts traded in 2018 exceeded 30 billion for the first time since the WFE started publishing the report in 2005.
Global financial markets had a turbulent year in 2018. Volatility made a come-back, breaking the spell of stable markets in 2017. The return of volatility was against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown, geopolitical and trade tensions, concerns about tightening monetary policy, currency exchange rate fluctuations, and increased scrutiny of the technology sector among other factors. For stock markets, while the year began on a high note, with domestic market capitalisation scaling record levels in markets across the globe, there were significant declines in market valuations by the end of the year. Meanwhile, overall trading activity was up, with value and volumes of trades in equity markets up 15.4% and 11.5% respectively on 2017.
The report focused on trends in derivatives against this backdrop, and examines how market participants responded to shifts in the underlying market. In this high volatility environment, 2018 saw record high volumes of trading in derivatives. For the first time in the period under review (since 2005), overall volumes exceeded the 30 billion mark, with 30.1 billion contracts traded in 2018. This was a 20.9% increase in volumes on 2017.
Key highlights of the report include:
•The overall increase in volumes was driven by growth across all three regions. The Americas region was up 23.8%, the Asia-Pacific region up 27.1%, and the EMEA region up 5.5%.
•Nearly all the derivatives product categories - namely equity, ETF, currency, interest rate and commodities - recorded increases in volumes on 2017. The one exception was ‘other derivatives’, which consists of ‘other’ options and futures.
•In 2018, equity derivatives volumes exceeded 13.6 billion contracts, the highest in the 14-year period under review. Volumes were up 33.8% on 2017, due to increases across single stock and stock index options and futures.
•Interest rate derivatives volumes were up 14.6% on 2017, with a trading volume of 4.6 billion contracts, a new high for interest rate derivatives.
•Currency derivatives reached a record high of 3.7 billion contracts traded in 2018, a 32.9% increase on 2017.
•Commodity derivatives volumes saw a marginal 0.6% increase on 2017, largely due to declining volumes in the Asia-Pacific region (1.4%), where a major share of global commodity derivatives trading takes place. Agriculture, energy and non-precious metals accounted for the bulk (32%, 31% and 26% respectively) of global commodity derivatives volumes. While volumes of agriculture and energy-based derivatives were up 9.9% and 6.2% respectively, non-precious metals volumes fell 12.6% on 2017.
Merrill Lynch reported first quarter 2005 net earnings of $1.2 billion, down 3% from the first quarter of 2004. Diluted earnings per share were $1.21. Net revenues increased 3% to $6.2 billion from the first quarter of 2004. Merrill Lynch also announced a new $4 billion share repurchase program and raised its quarterly dividend per share by 25%.
The document provides an overview of key concepts in accounting analysis. It discusses factors that influence the quality of financial reports, international financial reporting standards, external auditing requirements, and public enforcement of standards. It also outlines six steps for performing accounting analysis: 1) identify principal accounting policies, 2) assess accounting flexibility, 3) evaluate accounting strategy, 4) evaluate disclosure quality, 5) identify potential red flags, and 6) undo accounting distortions. Throughout, it emphasizes the importance of understanding a company's accounting choices and incentives to effectively analyze its financial information.
Merrill Lynch reported record quarterly earnings for Q1 2004, with net earnings up 95% year-over-year to $1.3 billion. Net revenues grew 27% to $6.1 billion, driven by growth across all three business segments. Global Markets and Investment Banking saw increased revenues from debt and equity trading. Global Private Client achieved record pre-tax earnings on higher asset values and net inflows. Merrill Lynch Investment Managers posted a near tripling of pre-tax earnings due to increased assets under management. The company will continue focusing on disciplined growth, diversification, and maintaining strategic balance across its businesses.
The document discusses the potential impacts of a financial transaction tax (FTT) on financial markets based on an analysis of futures markets. It finds that:
1) An FTT would likely reduce trading volume in the markets it taxes as transaction costs increase, which would undermine the tax's goal of generating revenue.
2) An FTT could also increase price volatility in financial markets as transaction costs rise, having the opposite effect than intended by stabilizing markets.
3) By raising costs, an FTT may drive some trading to untaxed foreign markets, weakening the competitiveness of markets in countries that implement the tax.
Overall, the analysis suggests that rather than achieving its aims, an FTT
AS Macro Revision - The Balance of Paymentstutor2u
This document discusses the balance of payments (BoP) and current account. It provides examples of countries that typically run trade surpluses and deficits. Causes of deficits include weak competitiveness and exchange rate issues. Policies to reduce deficits include demand management, exchange rate adjustments, and supply-side reforms. A currency depreciation can initially worsen the trade deficit due to lags but may eventually improve it if certain conditions are met. The UK often runs a trade deficit due to factors like import dependence and weaknesses exporting to growing markets.
Aegon 2h 2018 results and new targets presentationAegon
Aegon published its 2H 2018 financial results on February 14, 2019. In this presentation CEO Alex Wynaendts and CFO Matt Rider outline the key facts and figures for the review period and outline the strategy behind Aegon's new financial targets for 2019-2021.
A Logit Model of Informal Traders’ Decision to Evade Tax: A Case of Zimbabweiosrjce
Taxation is the commonest and oldest source of government revenue in the world. The main reason
for taxation is to finance government expenses and redistribute of wealth. The shadow economy and tax evasion
are both widespread in Zimbabwe. When the taxation system is not effective, many economic agents will use this
opportunity to escape paying tax (which is legal) or evade tax which is illegal. When tax evasion exist, the
government fails to allocate enough income for its programs, hence fails to deliver desirable social services.
Noting the significant influence of tax evasion on the state, this paper pursues to determine factors that cause
tax evasion and their relative impact. A questionnaire approach has been employed to collect responses. Using
a logit model the results shows that income, marital status and frequency of crossing the border have positive
effect on tax evasion
This document provides solutions to end-of-chapter questions and problems from the textbook "Multinational Finance" by Kirt C. Butler. It is organized by chapter and provides answers to conceptual questions about topics like foreign exchange risk, political risk, and cultural differences in international business. It also works through numerical problems involving calculations with foreign exchange rates, forward rates, and currency conversions. The solutions are intended to help students check their understanding of key concepts and practice applying quantitative techniques in multinational finance.
This document contains a webinar on exchange rates with multiple choice questions. It discusses Egypt moving from a fixed to floating exchange rate in 2016. It also covers how currency values are determined in floating exchange rate systems and factors that influence currency appreciation and depreciation like interest rates, current account balances, and speculative flows. Examples are provided of Sterling and the Euro against the US Dollar between 2014-2016. The effects of currency depreciations and appreciations on trade balances and the economy are evaluated in the context of concepts like the J-Curve and Marshall-Lerner condition. Different exchange rate regimes like floats, pegs, and currency boards are also classified.
Merrill Lynch reported second quarter 2005 earnings per share of $1.14, up 9% from the second quarter of 2004. This was the highest earnings per share Merrill Lynch has achieved in a second quarter. Net revenues increased 20% compared to the prior year quarter. All three of Merrill Lynch's business segments - Global Markets and Investment Banking, Global Private Client, and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers - saw increases in net revenues and pre-tax earnings compared to the second quarter of 2004. Merrill Lynch had record first half earnings per share, pre-tax earnings, and net earnings for the first six months of 2005.
1) Depreciation is the process of allocating the cost of tangible assets over the periods they are expected to benefit. Two main methods are straight-line and declining-balance.
2) Prior research found good performers used declining-balance to maximize tax savings while poor performers used straight-line for stable earnings.
3) After the 1980s, choices shifted from performance-based to compliance with global/economic changes like IFRS adoption and unstable conditions making declining-balance difficult. Firms increasingly use straight-line.
The document summarizes key aspects of the global capital market including:
1) International capital markets allow countries to gain from trade by facilitating the exchange of assets which helps diversify risk.
2) Major actors in capital markets include commercial banks, corporations, and central banks, with banks playing a large role through offshore banking and eurocurrency markets.
3) While capital markets provide benefits, international banking is difficult to regulate due to issues like deposit insurance and central bank lender of last resort responsibilities being unclear in a global context.
The delivery process consisted in the deregulation of local markets and international trends, which allowed the emergence of the phenomenon "globalization". This process has resulted in the restructuring of companies that are considered in the expansion of business, the level of competitiveness, expansion in the market of operations, technological adaptations and strategies; Mergers and Acquisition (M& A) characteristics operations. However, the main objective is to have priority in information promotion policies and initiatives to improve business conditions.
The objective of this article is to address the M& A theme in the context of globalization, seeking to answer the following question: what are the results obtained in the process of restructuring and operating M& A in the telecommunications company Oi S / A between the year of its creation and by the year 2016? To all that the literature review, literature studies, literature, literature studies, non-literature literature, pages, semantic studies, about the theme, being a bibliographic and descriptive research.
The study demonstrates that not always the processes of the frequency and license are advantageous to the parties related, due to character complexes that involve such operations. These groups can be supported in their search, mainly in studies on the market of action, differences in quotations and payments, employment opportunities in the societies involved.
This document provides an overview and outline of Chapter 18 which discusses international accounting issues. It examines factors that influence the development of accounting practices in different countries and the global convergence of standards. It also discusses how companies account for and translate foreign currency transactions and financial statements. Performance evaluation of foreign operations is complicated by issues like transfer pricing and foreign exchange rates. The balanced scorecard framework is introduced as an approach to evaluate performance from multiple perspectives.
Analysis of financial accounting standards and their effects on financial rep...Alexander Decker
This document discusses financial accounting standards and their effects on financial reporting and practices of modern business organizations in Nigeria. It provides background on the development of accounting standards and discusses arguments for and against them. The study found a positive correlation between accounting standards and financial reporting through quantitative analysis. It also found that there are significant costs associated with adhering to accounting standards. The document concludes by recommending that standard setters consider costs and benefits more and provide guidelines on disclosing intangible assets.
Need for Harmonization of International Accounting Standardsijtsrd
International harmonization of accounting standards is not a new initiative. The concept of convergence first arose in the late 1950s in response to post World War II economic integration and related increases in cross border capital flows. Initial efforts focused on harmonization reducing differences among the accounting principles used around the world by developing a single set of high quality, international accounting standards that would be used around the world, to give it a professional shape and essence. Accountants all over the world feel the need to shorten the gap among different streams of accounting practices through harmonization. However, we have observed a couple of accounting diversity owing to information asymmetry and lack of uniformity, for example, the US GAAP. This diversity posed as threats towards harmonization of accounting practices. The profession however has also witnessed a greater achievement in recent years in the process of international harmonization of accounting standards. The IASC and its successor and the IFAC have played a significant role in this regard. In know distant time, we will observe that accounting world is controlled and guided by a single set of standards giving it a status of legal discipline in true sense. The study specific objective focuses on the international harmonization of accounting standards. In carrying out the study, a qualitative research method was adopted as the methodology. Hence, no data was collected and analyzed with statistical tools. The study concluded that harmonization of accounting standards all over the world is very vital and necessary as it helps to reduce or eliminate the differences in financial reporting. We recommended that the IFRS, IAS and other regulatory bodies should be more proactive in the discharge of their duties, as this will check negative manipulation of financial information by preparers for selfish gains. Agbo Innocent Sunny | Emovon Felix Osayabor "Need for Harmonization of International Accounting Standards" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-3 , June 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd57566.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/management/accounting-and-finance/57566/need-for-harmonization-of-international-accounting-standards/agbo-innocent-sunny
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI)inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
This document examines the impact of adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on key financial ratios of Nigerian listed firms. It begins by providing background on IFRS and Nigeria's previous accounting standards. It then reviews prior literature that has examined the effects of changing accounting standards. The study uses a sample of 60 Nigerian firms to calculate financial ratios under both IFRS and Nigerian GAAP for the first year of IFRS adoption. Gray's index and other statistical tests are used to analyze differences between the ratio calculations under the two standards and determine if those differences are statistically significant. Preliminary results suggest IFRS adoption has caused negative but not statistically significant impacts on Nigerian firms' financial ratios.
Government And Not-For-Profit Accounting Concepts And Practices 7th Edition G...NathanielsIs
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Companies are facing a proliferation of transfer pricing documentation demands. While the new requirements set out in the OECD’s Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan will raise the bar still further, they could also provide the catalyst for the development of a more sustainable approach. http://bit.ly/1htg32Z
The WFE published its annual IOMA Derivatives Report, which shows that overall derivatives contracts traded in 2018 exceeded 30 billion for the first time since the WFE started publishing the report in 2005.
Global financial markets had a turbulent year in 2018. Volatility made a come-back, breaking the spell of stable markets in 2017. The return of volatility was against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown, geopolitical and trade tensions, concerns about tightening monetary policy, currency exchange rate fluctuations, and increased scrutiny of the technology sector among other factors. For stock markets, while the year began on a high note, with domestic market capitalisation scaling record levels in markets across the globe, there were significant declines in market valuations by the end of the year. Meanwhile, overall trading activity was up, with value and volumes of trades in equity markets up 15.4% and 11.5% respectively on 2017.
The report focused on trends in derivatives against this backdrop, and examines how market participants responded to shifts in the underlying market. In this high volatility environment, 2018 saw record high volumes of trading in derivatives. For the first time in the period under review (since 2005), overall volumes exceeded the 30 billion mark, with 30.1 billion contracts traded in 2018. This was a 20.9% increase in volumes on 2017.
Key highlights of the report include:
•The overall increase in volumes was driven by growth across all three regions. The Americas region was up 23.8%, the Asia-Pacific region up 27.1%, and the EMEA region up 5.5%.
•Nearly all the derivatives product categories - namely equity, ETF, currency, interest rate and commodities - recorded increases in volumes on 2017. The one exception was ‘other derivatives’, which consists of ‘other’ options and futures.
•In 2018, equity derivatives volumes exceeded 13.6 billion contracts, the highest in the 14-year period under review. Volumes were up 33.8% on 2017, due to increases across single stock and stock index options and futures.
•Interest rate derivatives volumes were up 14.6% on 2017, with a trading volume of 4.6 billion contracts, a new high for interest rate derivatives.
•Currency derivatives reached a record high of 3.7 billion contracts traded in 2018, a 32.9% increase on 2017.
•Commodity derivatives volumes saw a marginal 0.6% increase on 2017, largely due to declining volumes in the Asia-Pacific region (1.4%), where a major share of global commodity derivatives trading takes place. Agriculture, energy and non-precious metals accounted for the bulk (32%, 31% and 26% respectively) of global commodity derivatives volumes. While volumes of agriculture and energy-based derivatives were up 9.9% and 6.2% respectively, non-precious metals volumes fell 12.6% on 2017.
Merrill Lynch reported first quarter 2005 net earnings of $1.2 billion, down 3% from the first quarter of 2004. Diluted earnings per share were $1.21. Net revenues increased 3% to $6.2 billion from the first quarter of 2004. Merrill Lynch also announced a new $4 billion share repurchase program and raised its quarterly dividend per share by 25%.
The document provides an overview of key concepts in accounting analysis. It discusses factors that influence the quality of financial reports, international financial reporting standards, external auditing requirements, and public enforcement of standards. It also outlines six steps for performing accounting analysis: 1) identify principal accounting policies, 2) assess accounting flexibility, 3) evaluate accounting strategy, 4) evaluate disclosure quality, 5) identify potential red flags, and 6) undo accounting distortions. Throughout, it emphasizes the importance of understanding a company's accounting choices and incentives to effectively analyze its financial information.
Merrill Lynch reported record quarterly earnings for Q1 2004, with net earnings up 95% year-over-year to $1.3 billion. Net revenues grew 27% to $6.1 billion, driven by growth across all three business segments. Global Markets and Investment Banking saw increased revenues from debt and equity trading. Global Private Client achieved record pre-tax earnings on higher asset values and net inflows. Merrill Lynch Investment Managers posted a near tripling of pre-tax earnings due to increased assets under management. The company will continue focusing on disciplined growth, diversification, and maintaining strategic balance across its businesses.
The document discusses the potential impacts of a financial transaction tax (FTT) on financial markets based on an analysis of futures markets. It finds that:
1) An FTT would likely reduce trading volume in the markets it taxes as transaction costs increase, which would undermine the tax's goal of generating revenue.
2) An FTT could also increase price volatility in financial markets as transaction costs rise, having the opposite effect than intended by stabilizing markets.
3) By raising costs, an FTT may drive some trading to untaxed foreign markets, weakening the competitiveness of markets in countries that implement the tax.
Overall, the analysis suggests that rather than achieving its aims, an FTT
AS Macro Revision - The Balance of Paymentstutor2u
This document discusses the balance of payments (BoP) and current account. It provides examples of countries that typically run trade surpluses and deficits. Causes of deficits include weak competitiveness and exchange rate issues. Policies to reduce deficits include demand management, exchange rate adjustments, and supply-side reforms. A currency depreciation can initially worsen the trade deficit due to lags but may eventually improve it if certain conditions are met. The UK often runs a trade deficit due to factors like import dependence and weaknesses exporting to growing markets.
Aegon 2h 2018 results and new targets presentationAegon
Aegon published its 2H 2018 financial results on February 14, 2019. In this presentation CEO Alex Wynaendts and CFO Matt Rider outline the key facts and figures for the review period and outline the strategy behind Aegon's new financial targets for 2019-2021.
A Logit Model of Informal Traders’ Decision to Evade Tax: A Case of Zimbabweiosrjce
Taxation is the commonest and oldest source of government revenue in the world. The main reason
for taxation is to finance government expenses and redistribute of wealth. The shadow economy and tax evasion
are both widespread in Zimbabwe. When the taxation system is not effective, many economic agents will use this
opportunity to escape paying tax (which is legal) or evade tax which is illegal. When tax evasion exist, the
government fails to allocate enough income for its programs, hence fails to deliver desirable social services.
Noting the significant influence of tax evasion on the state, this paper pursues to determine factors that cause
tax evasion and their relative impact. A questionnaire approach has been employed to collect responses. Using
a logit model the results shows that income, marital status and frequency of crossing the border have positive
effect on tax evasion
This document provides solutions to end-of-chapter questions and problems from the textbook "Multinational Finance" by Kirt C. Butler. It is organized by chapter and provides answers to conceptual questions about topics like foreign exchange risk, political risk, and cultural differences in international business. It also works through numerical problems involving calculations with foreign exchange rates, forward rates, and currency conversions. The solutions are intended to help students check their understanding of key concepts and practice applying quantitative techniques in multinational finance.
This document contains a webinar on exchange rates with multiple choice questions. It discusses Egypt moving from a fixed to floating exchange rate in 2016. It also covers how currency values are determined in floating exchange rate systems and factors that influence currency appreciation and depreciation like interest rates, current account balances, and speculative flows. Examples are provided of Sterling and the Euro against the US Dollar between 2014-2016. The effects of currency depreciations and appreciations on trade balances and the economy are evaluated in the context of concepts like the J-Curve and Marshall-Lerner condition. Different exchange rate regimes like floats, pegs, and currency boards are also classified.
Merrill Lynch reported second quarter 2005 earnings per share of $1.14, up 9% from the second quarter of 2004. This was the highest earnings per share Merrill Lynch has achieved in a second quarter. Net revenues increased 20% compared to the prior year quarter. All three of Merrill Lynch's business segments - Global Markets and Investment Banking, Global Private Client, and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers - saw increases in net revenues and pre-tax earnings compared to the second quarter of 2004. Merrill Lynch had record first half earnings per share, pre-tax earnings, and net earnings for the first six months of 2005.
1) Depreciation is the process of allocating the cost of tangible assets over the periods they are expected to benefit. Two main methods are straight-line and declining-balance.
2) Prior research found good performers used declining-balance to maximize tax savings while poor performers used straight-line for stable earnings.
3) After the 1980s, choices shifted from performance-based to compliance with global/economic changes like IFRS adoption and unstable conditions making declining-balance difficult. Firms increasingly use straight-line.
The document summarizes key aspects of the global capital market including:
1) International capital markets allow countries to gain from trade by facilitating the exchange of assets which helps diversify risk.
2) Major actors in capital markets include commercial banks, corporations, and central banks, with banks playing a large role through offshore banking and eurocurrency markets.
3) While capital markets provide benefits, international banking is difficult to regulate due to issues like deposit insurance and central bank lender of last resort responsibilities being unclear in a global context.
The delivery process consisted in the deregulation of local markets and international trends, which allowed the emergence of the phenomenon "globalization". This process has resulted in the restructuring of companies that are considered in the expansion of business, the level of competitiveness, expansion in the market of operations, technological adaptations and strategies; Mergers and Acquisition (M& A) characteristics operations. However, the main objective is to have priority in information promotion policies and initiatives to improve business conditions.
The objective of this article is to address the M& A theme in the context of globalization, seeking to answer the following question: what are the results obtained in the process of restructuring and operating M& A in the telecommunications company Oi S / A between the year of its creation and by the year 2016? To all that the literature review, literature studies, literature, literature studies, non-literature literature, pages, semantic studies, about the theme, being a bibliographic and descriptive research.
The study demonstrates that not always the processes of the frequency and license are advantageous to the parties related, due to character complexes that involve such operations. These groups can be supported in their search, mainly in studies on the market of action, differences in quotations and payments, employment opportunities in the societies involved.
This document provides an overview and outline of Chapter 18 which discusses international accounting issues. It examines factors that influence the development of accounting practices in different countries and the global convergence of standards. It also discusses how companies account for and translate foreign currency transactions and financial statements. Performance evaluation of foreign operations is complicated by issues like transfer pricing and foreign exchange rates. The balanced scorecard framework is introduced as an approach to evaluate performance from multiple perspectives.
Analysis of financial accounting standards and their effects on financial rep...Alexander Decker
This document discusses financial accounting standards and their effects on financial reporting and practices of modern business organizations in Nigeria. It provides background on the development of accounting standards and discusses arguments for and against them. The study found a positive correlation between accounting standards and financial reporting through quantitative analysis. It also found that there are significant costs associated with adhering to accounting standards. The document concludes by recommending that standard setters consider costs and benefits more and provide guidelines on disclosing intangible assets.
Need for Harmonization of International Accounting Standardsijtsrd
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are guidelines and rules that are designed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) that are used to provide a uniform language and platform for reporting different financial statements. The IFRS has been adopted in many countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. The most notable absentee is the United States who uses the Generally Accepted Accounting Standards (GAAP). IFRS is meant to create transparency in financial reporting so that it can assist the end-users in informative decision making. https://coolassignment.com/2021/06/01/discuss-the-importance-of-an-organization-determining-its-operational-alignment/ The IFRS improves efficiency and accountability in reporting in the global markets. The IFRS is considered as a principle based standard compared to the U.S. GAAP which is rule-based standard. Since its adoption, Australia has benefited from IFRS in various ways, such as low cost of capital and uniformity in financial reporting. This paper will focus on some of the principles of IFRS, its benefits and how it compares to the U.S. GAAP.
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The use of a similar accounting standard will eliminate unnecessary cost and time in the preparation of reporting the financial statements. The use of different regulations and the standards in a firm may prove to be costly than use of the same standards. To embed IFRS uniform accounting standards in the firm and the subsidiaries reduces the cost of preparation of financial statement. This system will provide accurate and on time statements that are critical in the decision making of th.
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- A logistic regression model was used to analyze the data and found that hypothesis related to firm size and institutional shareholders influencing IFRS adoption were validated, while hypotheses related to debt ratios, stock options, and other factors were rejected.
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Global Market Analysis
Geoff Brown
Professor Duhn
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March 5, 2017
Objectives
Introduction
Potential issues in financial statement analysis
Recommendations on the issues
International financial statement analysis potential benefits
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Introduction: financial statements analysis
Definition; the act of looking at financial statements with a view of evaluating the financial status of the company to make better economic decisions(Brown et.al, 2014)
Financial statements include balance sheet, income statement, statement of equity and cash flow statement among others
Financial analysis uses tools such as financial ratios
Financial statement analysis make the use of various tools. The most common tools is financial ratios. This financial ratios are classified into various categories depending on the objective they are required to achieve. The common financial ratios are classified into liquidity, profitability, solvency, operating financial ratios and leverage ratios.
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Introduction (continued)
Statement of the problem- effect of global market on financial statement analysis
Scope; financial statement analysis in the us vis a vis the global market
global market of choice is German.
This presentation is intended to give an outline of the various opportunities as well as threats that will be encountered as result of having global operations. The threats and opportunities will have a bias on the various effects this global markets will have on the process of financial statement analysis. This will also be a comparison between the host country, USA and the new country referred to as the global market. The global market in this case is German
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Potential issues
Legal systems
Tax regulation
Political and political ties
Inflation
Funding mechanism
This are the major determinants of many countries accounting system and by the extension the process of financial statement analysis. They present both threats and opportunities to the business. The will be each be discussed in the subsequent slides.
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Legal system
There two types of legal systems namely common law and codified roman law
The kind of accounting system is determined by the legal system
German being the global market uses codified roman law.
Accounting profession in German is highly regulated with procedures laid down on particular transaction
In the German law is silent about items such as cash flow statements, leases and also transactions involving foreign currency transactions(Geppert et.al, 2016)
Unlike in the USA and other countries who use the common law legal system, the accounting field is highly regulated in German. In countries operating under the common law regime the laws are left to professional bodies to deliberate on the various contentious issues. In this case various tools such as cash flow statement are very important when it comes to issues such liquidity. Lack of clear direction on such an item can make benchmarking wit ...
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The document discusses the relationship between the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). It describes how the IASB was created to establish a single set of global accounting standards. It discusses the challenges both boards have faced in harmonizing standards due to differences in languages, cultures, and economic/political environments. It outlines some of the short-term goals agreed upon by both boards at the 2002 Norwalk Agreement to improve compatibility of financial reporting standards.
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Abstract: This paper traces the benefits of international accounting standards - their contribution
to harmonization and globalization by purposing and tasking for accounting management.
Measuring in details their pros and cons effects on the division of labour, financial innovation,
company transactions and cost of capital it could be author's recommendation for the business
management inside and outside of one country's border. Especially the multinational companies
whose subsidiaries had to report for some purposes (e.g. tax, local borrowing, benchmarking) using
national accounting rules convert and consolidate their different framework for unified financial
statement where they were listed. With the growth of international business transactions by private
and public entities, organizations the need to coordinate different investment decisions has
increased. A suitable accounting information system can help multinational enterprises accomplish
their managerial functions on a global basis. In this viewpoint the adoption of international
accounting standards can promote and support for the business management. [PUBLICATION
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This paper traces the benefits of international accounting standards - their contribution to
harmonization and globalization by purposing and tasking for accounting management. Measuring
in details their pros and cons effects on the division of labour, financial innovation, company
transactions and cost of capital it could be author's recommendation for the business management
inside and outside of one country's border. Especially the multinational companies whose
subsidiaries had to report for some purposes (e.g. tax, local borrowing, benchmarking) using
national accounting rules convert and consolidate their different framework for unified financial
2. statement where they were listed. With the growth of international business transactions by private
and public entities, organizations the need to coordinate different investment decisions has
increased. A suitable accounting information system can help multinational enterprises accomplish
their managerial functions on a global basis. In this viewpoint the adoption of international
accounting standards can promote and support for the business management.
Keywords: Accounting management, International harmonization, Globalization, Standardization,
Economics of accounting standards
1. Introduction
Accounting management is the practical application of management techniques to control and
report on the financial resources of the business entities. This involves the analysis, planning,
implementation, and control of programs designed to provide financial reporting for managerial
decision making. It is covering the maintenance of the accounts, developing financial statements,
cash flow and financial performance analysis. Since accounting applications do not have uniform
security and reliability requirements, it is not possible to devise a single accounting protocol and set
of security services that will meet all needs. Thus the goal of accounting management is to provide
a set of tools that can be used to meet the requirements of each application. Accounting
management requires that resource consumption be measured, rated, assigned, and communicated
between appropriate parties. Especially the multinational companies spend enormous money for
preparing and auditing their accounting reports according to the different national regulations. For
these multinational companies the aspects of maximizing the profit is significantly more important
than the consideration of national interest or the geographical position. Because of this there is a
demand for creating such accounting systems which are evaluating the holder's economic results
equally.
Meanwhile the interpretation and adoption of the financial information based on the different
accounting rules, methods are also expensive for the users of these reports. Therefore an authentic
and standardized international accounting system could form that business language, which would
allow the comparison of the financial information of each country.
According to the business practice it is obvious that the usage of international accounting principles
leads to a reduction of the information asymmetry between the owners and the managers. By this
information asymmetry are growing the costs of equities and are less accurate the economical and
financial forecasts. This requires the development and review of the national accounting rules, the
separate validation of the tax and accounting regulation, the repeal of the subordinate role of
accounting, issuing international standards with the help of practical and theoretical accounting
experts.
Historically, standardization of the international accounting principles has tended to follow the
integration of the markets served by the accounts. For example, the move to unified national
accounting in the US in the early 20th century followed the integration of the national economy.
Similarly the present impetus for global accounting standards follows the accelerating integration of
the world economy. Without the common accounting standards the cross-border portfolio and
direct investment my be distorted, the cross-border monitoring of management by shareholders
obstructed, and the cross-border contracting inhibited and the cost of these activities may be
needlessly inflated by complex translation (Meeks and Swamm, 2009).
To sum up, according to studies regarding the adoption of international financial accounting
standards (IFRS), the companies that adopted IFRS needed to spend less time with earnings
3. management and recognized loss more timely. These companies also experienced an improvement
in their accounting quality. The adoption of IFRS also raised market liquidity and the value of the
company. But we also have to add that these positive effects can be experienced mostly in those
countries where the institutional background is appropriate. To be sure, arriving at accounting
standards that promote a more faithful representation of economic reality is extremely challenging.
Indeed, as some have argued, the economics of these transactions are often in the eye of the
beholder (Zeff, 2006).
Accounting regulation in the European Union introduced from 2005 obligated economic entities
listed and traded on stock markets to apply IFRS on consolidated financial statements exerted a
decisive influence on the accounting globalization. The draft - accepted by the US Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) - that enables the acceptance of financial statements created on the
basis of IFRS without converting it according to US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
was a significant leap toward the convergence of IFRS and US GAAP. SEC is to examine the
possibility for US economic entities to choose between US GAAP and IFRS for avoiding the necessity
of revealing differences between the two systems and to conduct its comparison. Moreover on
March 2007, SEC announced its intention to accept financial statements created in accordance with
IFRS from January 1, 2009 beside the ones created according to US GAAP. Since in case such
multinational companies like Daimler Chrysler owning more than 900 subsidiaries, operating on 5
continents in more than 60 counties, the published financial results according to international
standards is 1.5 times of the one according to German accounting standards. If earning after
taxation (EAT) - deducted actual tax burdens - according to US GAAP is taken as 100 percent, due
to differences between national accounting standards, EAT would be 25% more in UK, 3% less in
France, 23% less in Germany and 34% less in Japan (Barth et al., 2007).
An analysis (Ormrod and Taylor, 2006) of non-economic entities among the 100 larges companies
listed on London stock market was performed and published by the University of Liverpool, UK. This
research created according to international accounting gave unique opportunities to retrieve
comparable data. Financial performance of given period was examined and introduced according to
international as well as British accounting standards indicating that in case of 50 out of 100
economic entities, conversion into IFRS would increase EAT by 39%. Analysis was performed to
find out which standards are reliable for that and turned out that only several of them caused the
differences. In most of examined standards, results differed in a small proportion. Results were
weighted on the bases of economic entities' size. Significant difference (24%) was indicated by the
review of goodwill. Financial investments accounted for the second important factor, resulting 13%
changing. Applying to international accounting standards could decrease shareholders fund by
23%. Converting to IFRS would indicate the most significant decrease in allowances (including
pension), namely 26%. Surprisingly most of the standards had minor deviations were indicated by
dividend (3%) and finite tax change (1%). Allowances - especially pension - was expected to have
significant effects, but it rather reflected the changes of British regulations instead of IFRS.
Deviations of financial statement derived from different accounting system could hardly measure in
case of such large companies like British Petrol.
One study (Bradshaw et al., 2008) characterizes of accounting amounts for companies that adopted
IFRS to a matched sample of companies that did not, and found that the former evidenced less
earnings management, more timely loss recognition, and more value relevance of accounting
amount than did the latter. They found, that IFRS adopters had a higher frequency of large
negative net income and generally exhibited higher accounting quality in the post-adoption period
than they did in the pre-adoption period. The results suggested an improvement in accounting
quality associated with using IFRS.
4. Another study (Sodestrom and Sun, 2007) found that first time mandatory adopters experience
statistically significant increases in market liquidity and value after IFRS reporting becomes
mandatory. The effects were found to range in magnitude from 3 % to 6 % for market liquidity and
from 2 % to 4 % for company by market capitalization to the value of its assets by their
replacement value.
2. The financial statements' role in performance assessment of business management
Financial statements, called "accounting statements" in Hungary reflects the results of management
or the liability of management to enable making decisions like investment instruments should be
maintained or should it be sold, or the assignment of management should be prolonged or should
be replaced. Usually the total amount and availability of cash and cash equivalents are also
requested and assessed since it determines the ability to fulfil obligations (transferring for suppliers,
interests and paying out dividend for shareholders). Users of financial statements could even better
assess the total amount of cash and cash equivalents if the statement focuses on the financial
situation, performance of the business. Financial situation of given economic entity is influenced by
the possessed economic resources, financial structure of the entity, its liquidity and ability to adopt
environmental changes. Preceding data on possessed economic resources and its changes in the
past may be useful to create cash and cash equivalents forecasts while preceding data on financial
structure could be used for set up loan forecasts and to determine how future revenues will be
divided among shareholders. Analyzing accounting information may also be used to determine how
successful the business will be in acquiring additional finances. Forecasts based on former rate of
liquidity and dispensability may indicate whether the entity will be able to fulfil its due obligations.
Data on the performance of business, especially on its profit are required to forecast the future
changes of economic resources which the business is likely to possess, thus data on changes of
performance is relevant. From financial forecasts, trend-extrapolations the following conclusions
may be drawn: whether the given business could raise cash-flow on the basis of existing resources
or not; how successfully it could use additional financial resources. Business' ability of raising cash
and cash equivalents and cash flow may be derived from all these information. Several means of
funds could be determined while creating forecasts of financial situation of given business, like
financial resources, working capital, liquid or financial instruments. Information on financial
situation primarily indicated in balance sheets while information on performance is indicated in
profit and loss statements. Some components of financial statements are connected to each other
since they are derived from the same transactions or event. Despite the fact that all of the
statements provide different information, presumably none of them serves only a single purpose or
contains answers to all requested questions. Profit and loss statement, statement of cash flow
together with a balance sheet could provide an overview of economic entity's performance.
3. Role of international accounting standards in the division of labour
Even the work of Adam Smith concerning division of work demonstrate the significant change that
leads from economic entities managed by its owner through divided leadership between
shareholder till hired management. Hired management of limited partnership may provide further
options for maximize risk management and financing such projects that exceed the possibilities
which are available for economic entities managed by its owner. In addition monitoring fund
assessment and investment may be challenging without hired experts. Informational asymmetry
may occur concerning asset valuation namely external shareholders are usually less informed of
financial investments than hired managers which also may cause motivational anxiety. As Adam
Smith (1776: 89) has written "Management of such partnerships rather handles shareholders'
investments than its own thus the same caution could not be expected that lead to lavishing of
funds..."
5. The study of Gwilliam et al. (2005) describes the role of international accounting standards in
division of labour, but first of all regarding in absence of its adoption: In 1980, Lloyd, one of the
largest retail chains in the UK created and published its financial statement without taking into
consideration the accounting and audit regulations since the latter one was not in force. Defaults of
information flow between branch offices and management could be traced back to the lack of
modern and uniformed accounting standards. Different sales values and funds were indicated by
the branch offices and by the headquarters due to differing accounting principles and methods and
self-interests.
Concerning decisions on fund assessment and investments Smith (1996) gave the following
examples for the misuse of accounting standards: The Coloroll share company operation in the UK,
grew to 10 times of original company within 4 years thanks to acquisitions but kept low rate of
(fictive) profit by using accounting tricks, "creating reorganizing reserves". Next year its capital has
degraded and bankrupted. The Accounting Standard Board (ASB) in UK has created and published
unified principles and accounting methods to avoid such misunderstandings, differences and
failures between economic entities participating in the division of labour. Their aim was to eliminate
bankruptcy of such large company like the British Coloroll or the American WorldCom. The board
consisting of accounting researchers, experts, auditors aimed to create such standards like restrains
management from misinforming shareholders concerning the profit achieved by company or the
amount of dividend. In addition Botsari and Meeks (2008) have created such accounting methods
that restrain management from altering former performance, results. Similar case has been
published recently in Hungary: the First Hungarian Natural Gas and Energy Trading and Service
Provider Ltd tried to alternate its profit by self-revision to "achieve" loss. Shleifer and Vishny (2003)
- in their study - introduced methods that may prevent company management from misinforming
shareholders by motivating them to apply accounting standards especially in the statements of their
performance and funds.
Adoption of IFRS may lead to less time being spent trying to be in line with all the strict rules and
regulations that come with the national rule-based accounting. Western European and American
multinational corporations have been often outsourcing their accounting tasks to lower cost
countries. If a globally accepted financial reporting standard was available, it would be even more
likely that companies would contract out their accounting tasks to lower cost countries. Currently,
the management of companies from developed countries might be concerned that they do not find
the necessary accounting expertise in developing countries. With the adoption of the worldwide
accounting standards, companies could centralize accounting training and could easily set up
centralized financial support centres. The number of shared (financial and administrative) service
centres could increase considerably. This would benefit the multinational corporations and create a
significant number of new jobs in developing countries. With globalization under way, accounting
professionals could easily reallocate (especially in the European Union where there are no country
borders anymore) to other countries as accounting and financial statement would have a common
language. The companies in countries like India, Mexico or even Hungary, have more and more
duties taken over from the firms of developed countries and from other organizations. The market
is developing, because there is a demand and also supply and the unionisation take over simpler
and more transparent.
4. International accounting standards and financial innovation
Statement that standardization has a leading role in innovation is proven in numerous studies e.g.
Temple (2005). According to data provided in above mentioned study, 50% of the interviewed
person conceived that accounting standards promote innovation. The other 50% of them stated
that standards restrain innovation. This involves that standards may promote or restrain innovation
as well. This could question mark the role of standards in innovation. As mentioned above and
6. argued by Smith, division of labour promote innovation. New markets could be achieved by using
standards thus new markets entries and products may give a significant boost to innovation - as
argued by Whittington (2008).
Using widely accepted standards for innovative products could also result in better sales figures.
Without these standards, low-quality products and remaining stocks could not be relocated, thus
innovation would lose its economy-boosting effect. In addition new standards expand the scale of
innovative products, market entries thus without new standards, innovative products could be
hardly obtained. Loan contracts may also provide us a perfect example for the role of standards in
financial innovation. International accounting information has already took a significant part of such
contract, but for now adopting these information for performance assessment become more and
more complex. Fluctuation of interest rate is highly influenced by innovation (Chatterjee, 2006).
This involves that higher risk advantage could be achieved through lower interest rate and the lack
of negotiations before signing contracts. On the other hand lenders are compensated through
exercising extra premium in the interest rate. With such a warranty, lower interest rate could be
set, thus both lender and debtor could meet beneficial offer. Even so in some case - e.g. mentioned
in their study of Fearnley and Sunder (2007) - terms indicated in the contract were defaulted due
to false determination of profit, lowered loan risks "accounting tricks" or due to defaulted payment
of instalment. Thus uniformed contract and standardized international accounting methods should
be introduced.
In many countries the growth of the financial leasing proves that leasing is like a financial
innovation that obtained a long-lasting position in the economic life. The success of leasing could
be explained by the arising needs of financial capacity in the economy, and not with the temporary
favourable environmental conditions. Alongside the clients in the frame of financial innovation there
is an increasing demand for services and goods for handling wealth, and for that, to have a higher
benefit in the case of unfavourable financial conditions.
5. The effects of international accounting standards on the transaction costs
Financial markets can not be misled by accounting tricks for good. Despite the fact that information
concerning market prices could not be published by using international accounting standards, it
remains essential to assess stock prices. If an economic entity has a semi-massive effect in a
country stock prices will react to published information nevertheless the principles or methods were
used in financial statements.
Literature (e.g. Easton, 2006) lists many events proves that in many cases market participant did
not reacted to changes of reports (performance, profit and loss statements) mainly due to shift in
used standards. For example: an economic entity changed its amortization method to achieve
higher profit rate. Since market participant had enough information that the increase in profit was
due to amortizing assets, stock price of given entity has not risen.
Similar effects could be experienced in case of mergers and acquisitions in the USA (Daske et al.,
2008) since market participant were not touched by the fact, that increased profit was due to
amortizing assets not performed before merge. Consequently standards should be used to eliminate
manipulations, extra work caused by the alternations and unnecessary costs.
Another part of transaction costs are affected by international accounting standards, e.g.: costs
connected to signing a loan contract or "so-called contract". Accounting data may limit contracting
parties' freedom getting the relevant information needed for being able to represent their interest,
7. e.g. information provided by loan contract on debtor's engagement or limitation of the liability
management.
Invoice of business tax may be mentioned as a theoretical example for "so-called contracts" since
EBT (earnings before taxation) and EAT may differ significantly as later one is to be modified by
accounting standards, rates and indexes. It is especially typical to the third sector where income is
strongly affected by international accounting standards.
Epstein (2009) highlights the cost-saving effect of international accounting principles in connection
with contracts since without their standards, lender would be forced into contracts that may push
them toward bankruptcy.
Both lender and debtor prefer accurately defined obligations and demands that may be detailed by
international accounting standards. Efficiency of loan contracts may be increased by using more
transparent, comprehensible and comparable reports based on international accounting standards
since misconceived reports may lead to losses decreasing assets. These losses could be derived
from false assessment of assets, obligations, consolidated profit or net assets. Since information on
which reports are based on these standards may not be compensated by other resources, it
motivates market participants to rely on such reports and decrease risk of investments by that.
Applying international accounting standards may also decrease the costs of data processing
systems since it supersedes to store and process differed data. The more standardized the financial
data base is, the higher the benefit gained. Unified international accounting principles may enhance
cross-border investments, increasing their benefits. Since accounting standards may enhance the
ability of forecasting profit rate, it could act as potential opportunity for investors.
Due to experts' opinions and impact studies, profit increasing effect of international accounting
standards through cost-saving (transaction costs, costs of management) is proven.
6. International accounting standards decrease costs of capital
Practically speaking accounting is an instrument to project economic transactions and assess their
performance. Particularly the later could be a remarkable tool for financial market participants when
indicating accurate data on the financial situation, performance, mobility of resources, obligations
due of examined business. Domestic investors prefer domestic business since reports are created
according to well-known international accounting standards and can be interpreted easily. On the
other hand foreign investors prefer reports created on the basis of international standards rather
than domestic standards. Costs of foreign investments could also be reduced if invested to the
optimal opportunity where cost of managing active investments could be reduced to minimal level
while maximizing profit.
About 1000 foreign companies registered at SEC, converted their accounting reports from their
national accounting rules according to US GAAP and are listed and traded on the stock market of
USA. But only some of them have adequate methods (instrument of governance ability to classify
and account activities, ability to initiate claims) in order to defend the interests of investors.
Therefore they are exposing their voluntary-ness to risk of being sued on the basis of insufficient
investment-protection which blocks the further advantages of using US GAAP. Thus risk of
exchanging stock may also increase the cost of capital since it is connected to the risk level of
investment (decreasing risk factors results in the decrease of transaction cost emerging during
investment). Risk may derive from the reliability of the accounting statements of business' financial
position its performance. The cost-saving effects (through decreasing risk level of assets) of a
8. reliable and true financial statement is proven by numerous studies (including Easley,D.- Hara.M. ,
2004, and Ball et al., 2006, researches), since reliability of accounting data effects on the price of
assets. The above mentioned studies have pointed out, that only a management providing exact
and reliable information to shareholders could take effect on the cost of capital. Accordingly
international accounting standards and unified methods could assist shareholders since unreliable
reports mean a possible risk-factor. This accounting model based on the principles of historical
costs for invested vehicles distort it's the real value if it is too late defined as realizable income from
cash flow applying financial resources. The invested vehicles receive criticism nowadays that may
lead to the review of financial resources' evaluation. Necessity for re-evaluating applied
international standards of the financial instruments was suggested by experts due to present sub-
primed mortgage and economic crisis.
For examining accounting standards from a different point of view confirmed the fact, that
unreliable information used in reports may further increase cost of capital. The complexity and
misconception of financial statements may cause higher risk factors resulting in longer rate of
return and higher costs of capital. Without doubt it may be concluded that accounting risk could be
lowered with the use of reliable and true international accounting standards.
If shareholders blindly trust in published reports may become a risk-factor as well. It also depends
on how shareholders trust in the regulations over financial statements (e.g.: SEC in the USA),
technical background and knowledge of auditors to enforce international accounting standards.
Considering all factors mentioned above, it could be declared that increasing reliability and better
interpretability of information provided in financial statements could decrease investors' cost of
capital. Beside direct risk-factors, indirect risk-factors do also have effects on investors' cost of
capital.
Reporting according to IFRS provide much better access to world capital markets, which reduces
the cost of capital. Investors cannot easily interpret the given countries' national financial reports.
They are very reluctant to invest in companies without clear financials. It is high risk to invest in
companies without easily accessible, clear financial reports. Investors expect higher returns from
these companies, thus the cost of debt is higher for companies not preparing IFRS reports. IFRS
put the financial statements in a simple and understandable form for investors and other parties
interested in the firm. IFRS financial statements could have a positive effect on companies' credit
ratings thus the cost of borrowing may be reduced. IFRS are also widely accepted as the financial
statements framework for companies who would like to get admitted to any of the world's stock
exchanges. Since worldwide adoption of IFRS would create a common language for accounting,
new capital markets would be opened to companies who have been reporting only in accordance
with their national standards. One can easily say that companies have the opportunity to prepare
their statements according to IFRS. However, small and middle size companies do not have enough
funds and manpower to complete their financials both according to the national standards required
by the law and according to IFRS, which would be desirable to enter the international capital
markets.
7. Conclusion
Standardization of financial accounting has tended to follow the integration of the markets served
by the accounts. The present impetus for global accounting standards follows the accelerating
integration of the word economy. The global accounting standards would enable the world's stock
markets to become more closely integrated. The more closely world's stock markets approach a
single market, therefore, the lower should be the transaction costs for investors and the cost of
capital for firms in that market. The differences in international reporting practice prior to IFRS
constituted a palpable barrier to efficient international investment, monitoring and contracting. And
9. the literature suggest that being confined to small segmented capital markets imposes a
substantially larger cost of capital on firms and transaction costs on investors, which would inhibit
much worthwhile investment. Although we do not have all elements for the cost-benefit calculation,
the evidence points to substantial net gains for smaller economies which have joined to the IFRS
regime. There is certainly empirical research evidence to support the notion that uniform financial
reporting standards will increase market liquidity, decrease transaction costs for investors, lower
cost of capital, and facilitate international capital formation and flow. And there is a sufficient basis
to endorse IFRS and begin the challenging task of educating users, auditors, and regulators.
Educators and practicing accountants alike have significant roles to play in this exciting future.
International accounting standards create more transparency on the financial market. This provides
investors more accurate information on company profiles. This way, even small investors (and not
only professionals) will be able to get the information needed for their investment choices, thus
they will be able to better compete on the market. More transparency will result in more
international transactions that will have reduced costs because of the clear information provided by
companies' reports. In case of consolidated accounts (when the company has foreign subsidiaries)
bookkeeping will be facilitated and will also result in reduced transaction costs. No more
adjustments will be needed in order to make financial reports of companies internationally
comparable. Reduced costs will also result in more cross-listings and cross-border investments.
International accounting standards also have a good effect on the division of labour. These
standards and thus the less transaction costs will enable companies to be able to trade easier
between each other. This will let them specialise in the field of their strengths and rather rely on
suppliers that are also specialists in another field of their own than trying to produce the same
product in-house, which will create a division of labour on the market. Accounting standards also
provide information on company disclosure. Better transparency, by providing more information,
and providing the accurate and understandable information will reduce the risk perceived by
investors. The risk in question is the accounting risk that comes from the difficulties in
understanding the accounting principles and standards applied by the firm, and also the inability of
investors to process the information provided. By reduced risk investors will get lower returns from
their investments that will result in lower cost of capital as well. Companies that are using IFRS face
less earning management, more earnings and more value relevance of earnings. This can be due to
the easier flow of capital, the less costs attributable to the difficulties of adjusting the reports of
companies from different accounting systems. Due to the decreasing costs of processing the
information provided in financial statements the efficiency of stock markets will increase which will
result in greater prices of stocks and thus greater capital income for enterprises. These all will
provide space for more innovation on the financial markets because they could become more
integrated, and more and new international transactions could be created. Due to accounting
standards, the international flow of capital will be easier.
International accounting standards are also becoming more popular and tend towards integration
as the global economy. The global standards have many benefits that are supported by many
factors. However, there exist also some restraining factors. Due to the globalisation of the markets,
international investors need access to financial information of companies that is easier by
harmonized accounting standards. Many economic choices are done when investors realise their
activities. These economic factors mostly favour international harmonization. Clear information is
needed in order to facilitate investments in all sectors.
It seems to be apparent that the appropriate international accounting standards contribute to the
division of labour, to financial innovation and to the reduction of the transactional costs, the cost of
capital and even to the increase of the enterprises' earnings. The first argument for the
harmonization of accounting standards is the existence of the multinational companies, who invest
enormous efforts into the preparation of their financial statements in order to comply with the
10. national standards. For these companies life would be much easier if the same rules would apply to
their subsidiaries all around the world. On the other hand this would be profitable for the investors
as well, as they could compare the enterprises' results without difficulties, which would spare both
money and other resources for them. This would also lead to the reduction of the information
asymmetry between managers and investors. The information asymmetry is a costly thing which
can be blamed for the increase of the equity's cost and the inaccuracy of the economical and the
financial forecasts. So the aim of the international accounting standards is that similar transactions
are treated the same way all around the globe which enables the creation of unified financial
statements.
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AuthorAffiliation
Jeno Beke
Institute of Business and Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs
80 Rákóczi street, H-7622 Pécs, Hungary
Tel: 36-72-313-681 E-mail: bekej@ktk.pte.hu
Subject: Studies; International accounting standards; Multinational corporations; Information
systems; Globalization; Standardization
Classification: 9130: Experiment/theoretical treatment, 4120: Accounting policies&procedures,
9510: Multinational corporations, 5240: Software&systems
Publication title: International Journal of Business and Management
Volume: 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 36-43
Number of pages: 8
Publication year: 2010
Publication date: May 2010
Year: 2010
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Place of publication: Toronto
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Journal subject: Business And Economics--Management
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