We examine the determinants of voluntary adoption of IFRS by medium-to-large UK unlisted firms (8417 firms comprising 287 IFRS firms and 8130 non-IFRS firms in 2009). Analysing voluntary adoption allows us to better understand the cost/benefits of choosing a specific set of accounting standards....

La crise financière de 2008 a posé le problème de la valorisation à la juste valeur des instruments financiers. Cette valorisation impose le recours à l'une des trois méthodes : prix de marche cotés, techniques de valorisation utilisant des paramètres observables : techniques de...

Le traitement comptable des partenariats public-privé (PPP) est un enjeu central de ces contrats, puisqu'ils peuvent être déconsolidés des comptes publics. A partir du cas britannique, cet article s'interroge sur les moyens d'éviter ces stratégies budgétaires de court terme. Compte tenu...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting standards. Firstly, we examine the need for harmonisation of accounting standards in particular to maintain the confidence of investors and savers in the financial and economic...

In this paper, we propose some characteristics of next-year impairments in a generic Black & Scholes framework, with one equity security, and under IFRS rules. We derive expression for the probability of impairment event for an equity-security recognized in the available-for-sale (AFS) category....

This study examines the determinants of voluntary adoption of IFRS by French companies listed on an unregulated financial market. These firms can choose IFRS or the French accounting standards to present their accounts. We analyze the annual reports of 85 French firms listed in 2010 on an...

Face à la montée en puissance du concept de Business Model dans la littérature académique, cet article souligne la pertinence de cette notion dans le domaine de l'information financière. Il rend compte d'une étude empirique menée sur l'ensemble des textes fixant les obligations...

Nous étudions la pertinence informationnelle (value relevance) en Europe du résultat global par rapport à celle du résultat net, et l'apport des normes IFRS en la matière ainsi que l'impact d'une certification par les " grands cabinets d'audit ". Pour cela, nous utilisons une base de...

Abstract : Suggested by the rise of the concept of business model in the academic literature, this article highlights the relevance of this concept in the field of financial reporting. It reports an empirical study conducted on all the texts setting out the accounting and financial obligations...

To ask if financial statements should "represent fairly" or be "relevant" gives a political dimension to the trade-off between reliability and relevance, two characteristics of financial reporting that the IASC/IASB Conceptual Framework does not consider to be conflicting. However, depending on...