本論文之研究目的係驗證公允價值資訊是否會影響聯合貸款的借款條件。實證結果顯示公司採用更多公允價值，尤其是第1等級輸入值，可在聯合貸款市場中可取得較有利的聯合貸款條件，例如可取得更低的利率及更高額的貸款金額。然而實證結果也顯示，若公司採用更多公允價值，尤其是第1等級輸入值，會有更高的機會被債權人要求提供債務擔保。由此可知，公司採用更多公允價值可有助於取得更有利的聯合貸款借款條件，同時第1等級輸入值可獲得更顯著的結果。

台灣上市上櫃公司從2013年開始依照國際財務報導準則編製財務報告，並依國際會計準則第41號之規定，生物資產原則上以公允價值認列及衡量。本文採用個案研究的方式，探討以公允價值認列及衡量之生物資產是否提供財務報表使用者更為攸關之資訊。 整體而言，本文並未發現我國農業公司採用國際會計準則第41號後，財務報表資訊與股價攸關性顯著提高。其原因可能和實務上普遍存在之契作合約之經營模式有關，導致生物資產佔總資產的比例較低，又樣本公司持有之生物資產生命週期皆短於一個營業週期，因此雖然生物資產以公允價值認列及衡量，對股價的攸關及影響程度有限。 / Listed companies in Taiwan are required to prepare financial reports using IFRS starting in 2013. Therefore, biological assets within the scope of IAS 41 are measured on initial recognition and at subsequent reporting dates at fair value less estimated costs to sell, unless fair value cannot be reliably measured. This study examines whether the fair value of biological assets provide investors with more value relevant information. Overall, this study only finds weak evidence that the fair value of biological assets provide significant explanatory power beyond that provided by historical costs. Leveraging contract farming agreement helps companies transfer the main risk and ownership to a third party and thus weaken the incremental information relevancy of fair value measurements. The short life cycle of the biological assets of the sample may also contribute to the weak results.

我國在金融監督管理委員會2009年5月14日宣告全面採用國際會計準則後，所有公開發行公司即受到全面性的衝擊;而在眾多的IFRS中，IAS 40投資性不動產會計準則，是目前國內會計準則所沒有的規定，且此號公報最特別的規定，是允許投資性不動產的續後評價，企業可以擁有選用公允價值法與歷史成本法的彈性，這樣的特殊規定觸發筆者想瞭解，企業未來適用此號公報，其續後評價方法之選擇及影響選擇原因的動機。 相對於歐美，由於我國缺乏具有長期收益性與安全性的資金投資管道，造成我國保險業長期偏好將可運用資金投資於實體不動產，故IAS 40對我國保險業影響重大，因此筆者以我國保險業為研究對象，以問卷、個案分析及訪談來探討保險業者對未來適用IAS 40之看法與期待。 經過研究分析，本研究發現60.61%的保險業在未來實施IAS 40後會繼續延用歷史成本模式，對影響選擇的因素方面，受訪者認為「對盈餘數字高低的影響」、「所得稅金額大小的考慮」、「對不同年度的損益造成波動的關係」等三項因素最為重要，另外，受訪者最認同新會計準則方法規定允許公司選用歷史成本法或公允價值法「會增加公司間財務資訊比較的複雜性」，且60.6%受訪公司傾向不同意提前適用此號公報。 / After the Financial Supervisory Commission Executive Yuan, R .O.C. declaring on May 14, 2009 that adopt International Accounting Standard in an all-round way in our country, all the public company were totally impacted promptly; Among the IFRSs, IAS 40 investment property is not exist at our present domestic accounting regulations and the most special of this regulation is allowing the enterprises can have elasticity of selecting the cost method or fair value method for measurement after recognition. The special treatments induce me to understand the drivers of the reason in its choice. As to America and Europe, because our country lacks have long-term rentability and security fund investment channel, cause the insurance of our country prefer to invest in real estate for a long time, so the implemental of IAS 40 will influence our insurance industry very much, so the study use questionnaires, case analysis and interview to researching the determinants of insurance industry choice to use the cost or fair value model to account for their real estate. Researched and analyzed, originally discover that 60.61% of the insurances will continue to use the cost method after implementing IAS 40 in the future, to influencing the factor chosen, interviewees think ”the amount of earnings”, “the tax amount” and “the volatility of income in different years” three factors are most important. In addition, interviewees admit that IAS 40 permits enterprises to choose cost method or fair value method will increase the complexity of comparisons among the companies’ report, and 60.6% interviewed disagree earlier application with this criterion.

財務報表為制訂授信決策之重要資訊來源，而穩健會計可增加公司財務報表的資訊品質。本研究實證探討當公司採行穩健會計時，是否可降低銀行融資超貸之可能性，使銀行願意為了穩健財務報表的效益，而降低公司需支付的債務融資成本。 本研究以1997至2008年之5,507筆觀察值為研究樣本，依Beaver and Ryan（2005）之分類，將穩健會計衡量指標分為非條件式穩健會計與條件式穩健會計，分析公司會計穩健程度對銀行融資利率的影響，並探討公允價值會計是否會影響條件式穩健會計與銀行融資利率之關聯性。 本研究之主要實證結果顯示，非條件式穩健會計與條件式穩健會計皆與銀行融資利率呈負向關係；公允價值會計之採用與銀行融資利率呈負向關係，且正向影響條件式穩健會計與銀行融資利率之關聯性。非條件式穩健會計與銀行給予融資超貸之風險呈負向關係，但條件式穩健會計與銀行給予融資超貸風險之關聯性並不一致。額外之測試顯示，主要實證發現不因改採其他方式衡量銀行融資利率，或以稅前息前淨利取代稅前息前折舊前淨利衡量超貸風險而有改變。 / Financial statement is one of important resources to credit decisions making. Conservatism increases the quality of financial statement. Based on the definition of types of accounting conservatism, unconditional and conditional, proposed by Beaver and Ryan (2005), and the use of a sample of 5,507 firm-year financial data from 1997 to 2008, this study investigates conservatism effects on the over-loan risks from borrowers through bank loan pricing. The primary empirical findings indicate that a significantly negative association exits between unconditional (conditional) conservatism and bank loan pricing. In addition, a significantly negative association exits between fair-value accounting and bank loan pricing, and the adoption of fair-value accounting affect the association between conditional conservatism and bank loan pricing. Moreover, the result also shows that a significantly negative association exits between unconditional conservatism and the over-loan risks. The analysis of additional tests indicates that the primary findings held when alternative measurements of interest rates are used for proxy variables for bank loan pricing and EBIT is used for proxy variables for EBITDA.

本論文之研究目的係驗證銀行管理當局是透過盈餘平穩化，增加盈餘對於未來盈餘的訊息，抑或是操控會計數字從而降低盈餘品質。本文採用兩種指標衡量盈餘平穩化：裁決性的貸款損失準備與公允價值第二等級與第三等級輸入值。以美國銀行作為本論文的樣本標的，經由實證結果發現，盈餘平穩化程度較高的銀行其股價能反映更多未來盈餘的資訊，顯示著平穩化程度會增加銀行當期盈餘對於未來盈餘的預測能力。除此之外，本文依照銀行規模與業務特性，分別比較大小銀行;商業銀行與儲蓄機構，個別探討盈餘平穩化和盈餘資訊性間的關聯。 / This paper investigates whether bank income smoothing is due to communication of future earnings or opportunism to garble accounting numbers. I adopt two measures of bank income smoothing, i.e., discretionary loan loss provision and Level 2&3 fair value inputs. Using a sample of U.S. banks, I find that higher-smoothing banks’ current stock prices capture more information about their future earnings to a larger extent than those of lower-smoothing banks. Moreover, I separate the bigger banks from the small banks and differentiate commercial banks from saving institutions to particularly investigate the association between income smoothing and earnings informativeness.

本研究探討台灣於2011年依據IAS 39進行34號公報之第三次修訂實施，採用已發生損失模型後的兩項議題：（1）放款壞帳費用之提列與盈餘波動性以及資本適足率波動性之關聯性，（2）以歷史成本評價之期末金額及以公允價值評價之期末金額，究竟何者對於未來之帳款沖銷與不良債權較具有關聯性。 實證結果顯示，自2011年採用已發生損失模型後盈餘波動性無顯著之變化，且壞帳費用對於盈餘波動性無解釋能力；而自2011年後資本適足率波動性亦無顯著變化，但壞帳費用對於資本適足率波動性有顯著的影響，顯示銀行明顯透過壞帳費用之提列進行資本管理而非盈餘管理。在未來信用損失預測之部分，以歷史成本評價之期末放款金額對於未來之帳款沖銷及不良債權有顯著的負相關，而以公允價值評價之期末放款金額對於未來之帳款沖銷及不良債權卻無解釋能力，可能係因未來帳款沖銷與未來不良債權之發生與放款之帳齡有顯著的關聯性，而與未來可收取之現金流量無顯著之相關。 / This study aims to investigate how Incurred Loss Model affects the recognition of loan loss provisions and the valuation of loans due to the third revision of SFAS No. 34 which was revised based on IAS 39 in 2011. For the recognition of loan loss provisions, it focuses on the relationship with earnings volatilities and capital adequacy volatilities, and for the valuation of loans, it specializes on whether credit loss predicting is related to historical cost accounting or fair value accounting. The result shows that, since the implementation of Incurred Loss Model in 2011, both the adoption of Incurred Loss Model and the loan loss provisions have no significant impact on earnings volatilities. For capital adequacy volatilities, implementing Incurred Loss Model has no effect on capital adequacy volatilities neither. However, the loan loss provisions since 2011 significantly enhance the volatilities of capital adequacy. It reveals that banks use loan loss provisions to manage capitals instead of earnings. For credit loss predicting, loans evaluated with historical cost accounting have significant negative relations with future charge-offs and non-performing loans while loans evaluated under fair value accounting do not have any explanation power. It may suggests that future charge-offs and non-performing loans are related to the aging of loans, but not the future payoffs of loans.