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Disclosure And Cost Of Equity Capital: An Analysis At The Market Level, Yan Li, Holly I-Hwa Yang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This study examines whether disclosure reduces the market cost of capital. A stock’s implied cost of capital is defined as the expected return that equates its current price to the present value of its expected future free cash flows. We compute implied costs of capital for each firm and use their average as a measure of the market cost of capital. Using a sample of management forecasts issued between 1994 and 2010, we find that an increase in disclosure at the aggregate level results in a lower market cost of capital. This result is robust to alternative measures of disclosure …

Building The Cfo Function: Roles And Responsibilities, Andrew Lee

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

No abstract provided.

Building The Cfo Function: Roles And Responsibilities, Chunqi (Tracey) Zhang, Tong Kin Andrew Lee

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

No abstract provided.

Proposed Financial Reporting Framework For Small- And Medium-Sized Entities, Released November 1, 2012, Comments Are Requested By January 30, 2013; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2012, November 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Making Sense Of Other Comprehensive Income, Pearl Hock Neo Tan

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

SMU Associate Professor of Accounting (Practice) Pearl Tan commented on how other comprehensive income (OCI) is different from net income, and how SME managers and stakeholders may use the information on other comprehensive income to evaluate the business. She highlighted that it is important for owners and managers of SMEs to understand the components of OCI and commented on how it will affect reported equity and net assets. Stakeholders of an SME may also use the information on OCI to assess risks and to estimate future cash flows from the reported unrealised gains or losses.

Guide: Prospective Financial Information With Conforming Changes As Of November 1, 2012; Audit And Accounting Guide:, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Financial Forecasts And Projections Task Force

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.

Pension Accounting And Reporting With Other Comprehensive Income And Deferred Taxes: A Worksheet Approach, Robert E. Jackson, L. Dwight Sneathen, Timothy R. Veal

School of Accountancy Faculty Research and Publications

This instructional tool presents pension accounting using a worksheet approach where debits equal credits for both the employer and for the plan. Transactions associated with the initiation of the plan through the end of the second year of the plan are presented, including their impact on accumulated other comprehensive income and deferred taxes. This article is intended as a supplemental teaching tool that demonstrates the impact of a plans funded status on the employers financial statements in a way that, based upon anecdotal evidence, accounting students and practitioners have found extremely beneficial beyond traditional accounting textbooks.

The Impact Of Switching To International Financial Reporting Standards On United States Businesses, Ashley Harper, Linda Leatherbury, Ana Machuca, Jodee Phillips

Faculty Publications and Presentations

There has been controversy brewing among accounting professionals regarding the impact of switching to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on United States corporations as deemed to converge in the near future (Deming, 2005). The viewpoint presented in this paper is that the United States should conform to the international standards primarily because a single set of standards creates uniformity and comparability for stakeholders regardless of their geographic location. This paper addresses the potential advantages and disadvantages of moving to a global set of standards as well as how the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will need to work with the …

Banking Standards - Submission From Professor Stella Fearnley (Bournemouth University) And Professor Shyam Sunder (Yale School Of Management) (S037), Shyam Sunder, Stella Fearnley

Shyam Sunder

The Convergence Of Multinational Standards And Practices In International Financial Reporting, Ashley Harper, Linda Leatherbury, Ana Machuca, Jodee Phillips

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is pending a move to incorporate a single set of accounting standards across International borders. The definitive decision for uniting the standards appears to be stalemated. The pending move by the United States to adopt financial reporting practices set forth by the IFRS to encompass a single set of reporting standards bears both advantages and disadvantages for multinational corporations. This paper examines some of the difficulties that can arise by using a single set of standards and addresses two significant studies regarding converging reporting standards. The paper concludes by discussing issues that could potentially …

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, October 16-18, 2012, Cleveland, Oh; Highlights (Asb) Meeting, October 16-18, 2012, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Agenda, Auditing Standards Board, October 16-18, 2012 Meeting, Cleveland, Oh, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Riding The Accounting Train: From Crisis To Crisis In Eighty Years, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

Voluntary Employee Disclosures In Australian Annual Reports Applying Ullmann’S Stakeholder Theory, Pamela Kent, Carolyn Windsor, Tamara Zunker

Tamara Zunker

Extract:Many companies state in their reports that their employees are the company’s most valuable resource (Flamholtz, 1999; Gröjer and Johanson, 1999; Guthrie, Petty and Johanson, 2001; Mouritsen, 1998; Petty and Guthrie, 2000). The purpose of this paper is to examine voluntarily employee 1 disclosures in Australian corporate annual reports by applying Ullmann’s (1985) three dimensional stakeholder framework comprising stakeholder power, strategic posture and economic performance. This study first investigates the propensity of companies to disclose voluntary employee information in relation to stakeholder employee power which is represented by employee share ownership and union membership. Second, strategic posture denoted by corporate …

Corporate Governance And The Quality Of Green House Gas Emission Disclosures, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, James Routledge

James Routledge

The introduction of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Cth) legislation is evidence of the importance the Australian Government places on the issue of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reporting. Australian corporations’ GHG disclosure information in annual reports is currently unknown as most research has focused on environmental voluntary disclosures in general. We used content analysis to produce an index wherein we assessed the quality of GHG disclosures made in the annual reports of Australian public-listed companies in 2007. Our interest was focused on whether good quality corporate governance influences the quality of GHG emission disclosures. We examined the …

Are Corporate Governance Recommendations Relevant For Small Companies?, Jacqueline Christensen, Pamela Kent, James Routledge, Jenny Stewart

James Routledge

This study examines the extent to which small listed companies in Australia comply with the Australian Securities Exchange corporate governance recommendations, and whether applying these recommendations is associated with benefits in terms of performance and accountability. The results indicate that many small listed companies comply with the recommendations, although the benefits to these companies from doing so appear to be low. We do not find evidence of a positive association between small company compliance with recommendations regarding board independence, diligence and formation of an audit committee and performance. However, we find that compliance with the recommendation against having a dual …

Voluntary Employee Disclosures In Australian Annual Reports Applying Ullmann’S Stakeholder Theory, Pamela Kent, Carolyn Windsor, Tamara Zunker

Pamela Kent

Extract:Many companies state in their reports that their employees are the company’s most valuable resource (Flamholtz, 1999; Gröjer and Johanson, 1999; Guthrie, Petty and Johanson, 2001; Mouritsen, 1998; Petty and Guthrie, 2000). The purpose of this paper is to examine voluntarily employee 1 disclosures in Australian corporate annual reports by applying Ullmann’s (1985) three dimensional stakeholder framework comprising stakeholder power, strategic posture and economic performance. This study first investigates the propensity of companies to disclose voluntary employee information in relation to stakeholder employee power which is represented by employee share ownership and union membership. Second, strategic posture denoted by corporate …

Are Corporate Governance Recommendations Relevant For Small Companies?, Jacqueline Christensen, Pamela Kent, James Routledge, Jenny Stewart

Pamela Kent

This study examines the extent to which small listed companies in Australia comply with the Australian Securities Exchange corporate governance recommendations, and whether applying these recommendations is associated with benefits in terms of performance and accountability. The results indicate that many small listed companies comply with the recommendations, although the benefits to these companies from doing so appear to be low. We do not find evidence of a positive association between small company compliance with recommendations regarding board independence, diligence and formation of an audit committee and performance. However, we find that compliance with the recommendation against having a dual …

Corporate Governance And The Quality Of Green House Gas Emission Disclosures, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, James Routledge

Pamela Kent

The introduction of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Cth) legislation is evidence of the importance the Australian Government places on the issue of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reporting. Australian corporations’ GHG disclosure information in annual reports is currently unknown as most research has focused on environmental voluntary disclosures in general. We used content analysis to produce an index wherein we assessed the quality of GHG disclosures made in the annual reports of Australian public-listed companies in 2007. Our interest was focused on whether good quality corporate governance influences the quality of GHG emission disclosures. We examined the …

The Decision To Outsource Risk Management Activities, Jacqueline Christensen, Pamela Kent

Pamela Kent

This study uses transaction cost economics (TCE) to identify factors influencing Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) companies’ decision to internally generate or outsource activities required to manage risk. Limited research has been conducted applying TCE in a risk management context with most in the accounting discipline concentrating on internal audit. Increasing our understanding of risk management practices benefits organisations, accounting professionals and regulators concerned with governance practice. Using a unique data set obtained from a survey sample of 271 listed ASX companies in 2009 combined with archival data hypotheses are operationalised and analysed using multivariate and logistic regression. Broadly in line …

Empires Of The Mind: Cross Cultural Cooperative Business Education, Keith Duncan, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara

Keith Duncan

This paper explores current trends in knowledge growth and decay, globalization, technology and education. Business education in the new millennium is shaped by these trends. This contextual backdrop raises both educational and business issues which are explored with exemplars from a successful cross-cultural blended MBA program. The educational issues considered include educational relevance, lifelong learning objectives, education vs. training, needs of the target audience, what is the language of instruction, as well as issues of assessment and outcome measurement. The business issues include a fair return to all parties, responsibilities, management and communication systems and dispute resolution. In a globalized, …

Micro And Macro Determinants Of Financial Distress, Ray Mcnamara, Keith Duncan, Simone Kelly

Keith Duncan

One criticism of failure prediction models is the bias resulting from pooling failure data over years when economic conditions might influence the failure of a firm. This research incorporates both macroeconomic variables and firm specific variables in explaining corporate failure. The results suggest that including economic variables improve the explanation of failure by ten percent. The economic variables included in the analysis were one-year lag in change in GDP, a two-year lag in interest rates, a one-year lag in the share price index, and a one-year lag in corporate profits. Economic variables were identified using a principal component analysis of …

Empires Of The Mind: Cross Cultural Cooperative Business Education, Keith Duncan, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara

Ray McNamara

This paper explores current trends in knowledge growth and decay, globalization, technology and education. Business education in the new millennium is shaped by these trends. This contextual backdrop raises both educational and business issues which are explored with exemplars from a successful cross-cultural blended MBA program. The educational issues considered include educational relevance, lifelong learning objectives, education vs. training, needs of the target audience, what is the language of instruction, as well as issues of assessment and outcome measurement. The business issues include a fair return to all parties, responsibilities, management and communication systems and dispute resolution. In a globalized, …

Empires Of The Mind: Cross Cultural Cooperative Business Education, Keith Duncan, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara

Simone Kelly

This paper explores current trends in knowledge growth and decay, globalization, technology and education. Business education in the new millennium is shaped by these trends. This contextual backdrop raises both educational and business issues which are explored with exemplars from a successful cross-cultural blended MBA program. The educational issues considered include educational relevance, lifelong learning objectives, education vs. training, needs of the target audience, what is the language of instruction, as well as issues of assessment and outcome measurement. The business issues include a fair return to all parties, responsibilities, management and communication systems and dispute resolution. In a globalized, …

Micro And Macro Determinants Of Financial Distress, Ray Mcnamara, Keith Duncan, Simone Kelly

Simone Kelly

One criticism of failure prediction models is the bias resulting from pooling failure data over years when economic conditions might influence the failure of a firm. This research incorporates both macroeconomic variables and firm specific variables in explaining corporate failure. The results suggest that including economic variables improve the explanation of failure by ten percent. The economic variables included in the analysis were one-year lag in change in GDP, a two-year lag in interest rates, a one-year lag in the share price index, and a one-year lag in corporate profits. Economic variables were identified using a principal component analysis of …

Inventory Valuation, Company Value, And The Uncertainty Principle, Catherine Whelan, Simone Kelly, Ray Mcnamara, Jasper Verkleij

Ray McNamara

Extract:One of the key elements to the operation of capital markets is information efficiency (Ball and Brown 1968). Both the IASB and the FASB frameworks emphasize decision usefulness, particularly to investors in capital markets, as the primary focus of general purpose financial statements. While theoretically, market values are determined by estimating discounted cash flows (Copeland, Weston et al. 2005; Brealey 2007), practical observations suggest a role for accounting information in the valuation process. Market information suggests that practitioners use the accounting performance measure “earnings” for firm valuation and determination of share prices.

Inventory Valuation, Company Value, And The Uncertainty Principle, Catherine Whelan, Simone Kelly, Ray Mcnamara, Jasper Verkleij

Simone Kelly

Extract:One of the key elements to the operation of capital markets is information efficiency (Ball and Brown 1968). Both the IASB and the FASB frameworks emphasize decision usefulness, particularly to investors in capital markets, as the primary focus of general purpose financial statements. While theoretically, market values are determined by estimating discounted cash flows (Copeland, Weston et al. 2005; Brealey 2007), practical observations suggest a role for accounting information in the valuation process. Market information suggests that practitioners use the accounting performance measure “earnings” for firm valuation and determination of share prices.

Family Ownership And The Value-Relevance Of Earnings And Book Value, Tim Hasso, Keith Duncan

Keith Duncan

This study investigates the relation between family ownership and the value-relevance of two primary accounting measures, earnings and book value. We provide theories of the effect of family ownership on the value-relevance of earnings and book value. We contend that current accounting technology does not fully recognise the family firm factors in the earnings or book value of the firm. We find that the value-relevance of earnings and is higher for family firms. We attribute this to the long-term orientation and the higher quality earnings of these firms. In contrast, the value-relevance of book value is lower. We believe this …

Multinational Oil Companies Operating In Nigeria: An Assessment Of Sustainability Disclosure Performance, Bukar Zanna Waziri Mr

Bukar Zanna Waziri Mr

The operations of multinational oil companies (MNOCs) in Nigeria over the years have translated into perpetual economic upsurge with compromised social and environmental tendencies. To this end, the study assesses the sustainability disclosure performance of MNOCs operating in Nigeria by making comparison between the actual practical performance and their reported disclosures regarding sustainability. The study used secondary data inform of discrete (sustainability, corporate social responsibility, safety, environmental, corporate citizenship reports via content analysis to generate variables for statistical analysis. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Three Dimensions (3D) sustainability disclosure performance indicators are then used as a standard gauge of MNOCs sustainability …

Individual Behavior And Social Structures, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.