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While many indicators point to the globalization of capital markets, one barrier may persist -- International Accounting Diversity. Even though coordination of many national policies is gaining favor, the measurement and disclosure principles that underlie financial statements remain largely a nationalistic affair. In this paper, we analyze the channels through which accounting diversity affects financial statements. Accounting differences may affect cash flows and lead to a direct affect on valuation. Accounting differences may also affect balance sheet items and measures of capital adequacy or credit worthiness that indirectly affect managerial decisions and firm valuation. In a survey of participants in the international capital market, we find that accounting diversity is a problem that affects the capital market decisions of roughly one-half of the participants in our study. Thus, we cannot rule out the possibility that international accounting diversity is a barrier whose presence may affect the pricing of securities and the composition of international portfolios. On the other hand, roughly one-half of the participants in this study found what they described as effective ways of coping with diversity. These coping mechanisms may be useful for other investors and issuers in making their capital market decisions.
How can analysts determine the true investment value of global firms in countries with disparate accounting procedures? This issue and related concerns are thoroughly examined in this thought-provoking book, wherein financial practitioners and scholars debate the impact of international accounting differences on decision-making in today's capital markets.
This monograph reviews the existing accounting, finance and economics literature on the economic effects of transparency in international equity markets, considers aspects of an international setting that make it an interesting environment for investigating these effects, and suggests directions for future research
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Finance, , language: English, abstract: Multinational Corporation is organizations that have its offices and different resources in no less than one nation other than its nation of origin. Such organizations have workplaces and/or manufacturing plants in diverse nations and as a rule have a brought together head office where they co-ordinate worldwide administration. There are more than 77,000 multinational organizations on the planet, and their 770,000 remote auxiliaries create roughly 10 percent of worldwide Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A lopsided number of multinational partnerships are headquartered in the triad: the United States, Japan, and the European Union. The biggest organizations on the planet are not as a matter of course the most multinational. Undoubtedly, numerous expansive organizations in the World have no outside operations. As per the United Nations, the two most multinational organizations on the planet in 1998 were Canadian and Irish. Notwithstanding setting up operations abroad, numerous organizations additionally cross-list their shares on stock trades outside of their nation of origin. There are various purposes behind doing this, including obtaining entrance to a bigger pool of capital.
Begins a series of volumes collecting important papers in the discipline of international accounting, taken to cover financial reporting matters but not the various areas of management accounting or auditing which have international aspects. In general, there is a preference for recent works, although older seminal papers are included. Volume 1 introduces the subject for the entire series. The 21 papers are organized in three parts: introductory issues; the measurement and effects of diversity; and classification. Indexed by name only. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This study focuses on the relation between the cost of equity capital and earnings expectations when the properties of accounting that determine earnings vary across different regulatory regimes. More particularly, it addresses the European setting where different types of GAAP regime have continued to function in the presence of the gradual harmonization of the underlying legal framework, and where the adoption of internationally recognised accounting standards by certain firms has anticipated the requirement for International Financial Reporting Standards. On the basis of estimates of the cost of equity that are implied by analysts' earnings forecasts, the paper provides evidence that financial market integration may have already contributed to mitigating the economic consequences of accounting diversity, and that switching to IFRS could have a short lived impact on capital markets. Moreover, based on firm level transparency and disclosure rankings provided by Standard and Poor's, it is shown how the quality of financial reporting conditions the implied cost of equity under different GAAP.
Fully updated to reflect the ongoing changes in international accounting standards, International Financial Reporting contrasts the processes of convergence on global harmonisation with the continuing causes of national diversity in accounting and accountability. It analyses the work of the International Accounting Standards Board in setting internationally applied standards (IFRS) of measurement and disclosure. Key Features Chapters on research in international accounting, commended by users of previous editions. Coverage of use of accounting information by global market participants. Includes examples of accounting practices drawn from the published accounts and reports of multinational companies such as Heineken, Kingfisher, Kodak and Wal-Mart. A chapter on 'issues in multinational accounting' provides a comparative discussion of national practices in relation to IFRS. New to this edition Increased focus on accountability in corporate reporting, particularly the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Focus on the whole annual report including narrative reporting The development of financial reporting practices across Europe is integrated in one chapter with particular reference to Poland as the largest economy entering the EU in the 2004 enlargement. International Financial Reporting: A Comparative Approach is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of accounting and international business, studying in any country throughout the world. Clare Roberts BSc MSc PhD is Professor of Accounting at the University of Aberdeen. She has held permanent teaching positions in the UK at Glasgow and Exeter Universities, and visiting positions in the US at Texas A & M University and the University of California Santa Barbara, and in Australia at Newcastle University, New South Wales. Pauline Weetman BA (Oxon) BSc PhD CA is Professor of Accounting at the University of Strathclyde and was formerly Dean of Faculty and Professor of Accounting at Heriot-Watt University. She received the British Accounting Association's Distinguished Academic Award in 2005. Paul Gordon BA MA FCA is Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Heriot-Watt University, having held positions at Glasgow, Aberdeen and Wales (Bangor).