...Chen Bu; Yuyu Zhang; Daifei Yao (Troy) ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of engaging valuation specialists on the value relevance of Level 3 fair value measurements (FVMs) within the auditing process. Through an analysis of a sample of international commercial banks over the period from 2016...

... firm-years observations during the 2001–2013 period, we find that the value relevance of foreign earnings increases with the improvement of the protection from state expropriation risk in the subsidiary host-countries. Our results are not driven by the earnings management practice, investor distraction...

...Tami Dinh; Barbara Seitz ABSTRACT This paper provides an in-depth analysis of financial information related to hedge accounting in European banks from 2005 to 2014. We show that both “as-if” earnings and “as-if” book values excluding the effects of hedge accounting are less value relevant than...

... own. Editor's note: Accepted by Ervin L. Black. October 2015 September 2018 2019 earnings fixation accruals anomaly mutual funds value relevance China's stock market Mutual funds are the primary institutional investors in China ( Firth, Lin, and Zou 2010...

... to IFRS enhances the value relevance of earnings but the effect is concentrated among firms that are cross-listed in the U.S. (and that do not report according to U.S. GAAP). The advent of IFRS enhances the value relevance of information contained in footnotes but attenuates the need for non-GAAP measures...

... European Union (EU) countries is associated with less earnings management and higher timeliness, conditional conservatism, and value relevance of accounting numbers. Our results suggest that there has been some improvement in accounting quality between the pre- and post-IFRS adoption periods. In particular...