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Abstract
This paper examines how financial reporting modes are determined within a company, from the perspective of perceived costs and benefits. The modes investigated include financial reporting regimes (e.g. IFRS, UK GAAP) and the financial reporting techniques which support them (e.g. valuing intangibles and investments, treatment of development costs). A stated preference approach is adopted and applied to a fieldwork analysis of the functioning of a large port authority, which was a member of a group and prepared both consolidated and subsidiary accounts. The analysis is largely qualitative, exploring in-depth such matters as key factors in making choices, the decision-making processes behind choices, and the staging of decisions, but underpinned by a quantitative basis, using a metric for determining net benefits of financial reporting regimes and techniques. Our analysis aims to improve our understanding of a company’s choice processes underlying its financial reporting, including its handling of complexity and uncertainty, and its use of innovations in techniques and organisational forms for decision support.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1-34 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 8 Feb 2016 |
Event | 39th European Accounting Association Annual Congress 2016 - Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Duration: 11 May 2016 → 13 May 2016 http://www.eaacongress.org/r/home |
Conference
Conference | 39th European Accounting Association Annual Congress 2016 |
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Abbreviated title | EAA 2016 |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Maastricht |
Period | 11/05/16 → 13/05/16 |
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Keywords
- financial reporting
- regime choice
- technique choice
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Applying the Stated Preference Approach to the Study of Financial Reports
Smith, J. (Principal Investigator)
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
1/02/14 → 30/04/14
Project: Research
Research output
- 2 Paper
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Choices of financial reporting regimes and techniques and underlying decision-making processes: a case study analysis of a port authority
Smith, J., Reid, G. & HSU, Y.-L., 21 Mar 2016, (Unpublished). 34 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Choices of financial reporting regimes and techniques and underlying decision-making processes: a case study analysis of a port authority
Reid, G., Smith, J. & Hsu, Y.-L., 4 Dec 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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39th European Accounting Association Annual Congress 2016
Smith, J. (Speaker)
11 May 2016 → 13 May 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference