This paper investigates the influence of the shares of non-interest income and the diversification, which result from off-balance sheet activities, on the performance of banking in Taiwan. I also use ARCH-M model in this study. The sample period is from January 2000 to December 2011. I find that all sample banks and private banks do not benefit from off-balance sheet activities, but government banks benefit from off-balance sheet activities. In this paper, I also use CUSUM test to find the structural breakpoint and discuss the situation in accordance with it. The result shows that the structural breakpoint is at July 2002, which closes to the founded time of lots of financial holding companies. After the structural breakpoint, the positive impact of shares of non-interest income and diversification on the performance disappear.

Since the financial markets keep developing, the way of off-balance-sheet financing weeds through the old to bring forth the new, Accounting information frequently cannot promptly and faithfully responds the real finance condition of a company. Those activities, such as operating leases, sale of receivables with the right of recourse, asset-backed securitization (ABS), joint ventures and investment in affiliates, finance subsidiaries, take-or-pay contracts, throughput arrangements, hedging activities, pensions and other employee benefits, have insufficient expression in financial reports that may let investors neglect the influence on the company behind these activities. This research namely wants to discuss how off-balance-sheet financing activities influence the value of the stockholder equity. Because the types of off-balance-sheet financing activities are many, and the correlative information obtains not easily, this research only chooses available information ¡§off-balance-sheet pensions financing¡¨ as the proxy variable of off-balance-sheet financing. It is found that, the equity book value and abnormal earnings as Ohlson (1995) says, have significant positive influence on stock price. It is also found that preceding-period off-balance-sheet pensions financing can be used to forecast current stock price, this may attribute to that investors only can obtain the preceding -period off-balance-sheet pensions financing, but unable to obtain current pensions information. Among the related theories that affect the funding policy, the findings suggest that: (1) Financial slack theory is tenable. (2) The debt covenant effect theory has not obtained the uniform conclusion. (3) Tax effect theory isn¡¦t supported.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2010. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-130).

In this study, we investigate how the implementation of IFRS 16 is affecting the financial statements of Swedish publicly listed firms, and what implications there are for financial statement users. These effects are analyzed by looking at transitional effects on total assets, total liabilities and EBITDA and by comparing different sectors, following estimations of sectoral differences in prior studies (e.g. Fülbier et al., 2008; Morales-Díaz & Zamora-Ramírez, 2018a). As a way of approximating the practical implications of IFRS 16, this study is analyzing changes in the key financial ratios: D/E and EV/EBITDA. We find significant median increases in total assets, total liabilities and EBITDA in the full sample, as well as within each sector group. Further, we confirm the existence of sectoral differences, finding the largest median increases in the Consumer Services sector and the smallest in the Financials sector. We also confirm that IFRS 16 bring new implications for financial statement users, since important and commonly used financial ratios are significantly changed: we observe a significant median increase in the D/E ratio and a significant median decrease in the EV/EBITDA multiple.

The observed use (and indeed tremendous growth in volume) of forward contracts, futures, options, and swaps as hedges against interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, and commodity price risk indicates that hedging does add value to the firm. The purpose this research was to empirically examine the value of off-balance-sheet hedging. The benefits of off-balance-sheet hedging were found to accrue from reducing (1) taxes, (2) expected financial distress costs, and (3) agency costs. Taxes. Hedging reduces the firm's tax liability by reducing the variability in taxable income. The value of hedging to the firm is a positive function of the convexity of the tax function and the variability of taxable income. Expected Financial Distress Costs. The value of hedging is a positive function of the degree to which hedging reduces the probability of financial distress and the costs of financial distress. Agency Cost. Due to the fact that bondholders and some managers hold fixed claims while shareholders hold variable claims, shareholders desire more risky projects than do bondholders or managers. Hedging reduces this conflict by allowing shareholders to undertake higher risk projects while protecting the holders of fixed claims. Firms can achieve the same benefits of hedging by using alternative strategies. Among the various alternatives to hedging are modifying the firm's capital structure, purchasing insurance, and modifying dividend policy. The amount of off-balance-sheet hedging activity undertaken by a specific firm is therefore a function of the value of hedging to the firm and the degree to which the firm has used alternatives to hedging. Using a regression analysis, this paper provides empirical evidence on the preceding relations. This study provides (1) the first empirical evidence into the reasons for a value-maximizing firm using off-balance-sheet hedging instruments, and (2) empirical insights into the way in which the firm's hedging decision interrelates with the capital structure, dividend, and insurance decisions.

Off balance sheet financing (OBF) is either not visible or only partially visible in financial reporting for a number of reasons. It has attracted controversy in the light of its employment in a number of major corporate scandals. Previous investigations dominated by short works and consultancy papers have focused mainly on the financial aspects of OBF. This academic cross-country research on the use of OBF in the UK and US capital markets was undertaken to extend the published analyses to include a legal perspective by studying its legal implications for directors, financial advisers, auditors and financial regulators. The study’s legal focus prompted relying primarily on the doctrinal approach, which was in turn completed by the use of a modified case study in order to help address the how and why issues of the research phenomenon. The study found that OBF instruments are double-edge financial instruments with good and bad consequences. When corporations used OBF for liquidity enhancement or to realise financial savings, they result in positive outcomes. In contrast, when used for aggressive window-dressing or in the manipulation of financial reporting for fraudulent ends, OBF mechanisms generated serious legal liabilities for directors, auditors, and financial advisers in terms of compensation suits or even criminal sanctions. Financial regulators were nonetheless found to be less likely to face legal consequences as a result of current judicial attitudes on the tort of public misfeasance. However, the extensive applications of OBF in conjunction with other forms of creative accounting have resulted in various regulatory responses. On a comparative note, litigation and enforcement actions were found to be relatively more extensive in the US because of the higher incidence of large corporate frauds and the work of regulatory champions especially in New York using deferred prosecution agreements.

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La crise financière liée aux emprunts hypothécaires subprime a mis en lumière aux yeux du public le recours à une technique d'ingénierie financière complexe : la titrisation. Le recours à la titrisation a suivi une croissance exponentielle durant la dernière décennie, la transaction se constituant en tant que moyen de financement privilégié aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. L'objectif de ce travail doctoral est d'apprécier les enjeux que véhicule la titrisation en termes de communication comptable et financière des groupes bancaires cotés, au regard de l'intérêt que confère la transaction quant à la satisfaction des intérêts du dirigeant. La recherche s'organise en deux volets. Le premier vise à déterminer et expliquer l'impact de l'annonce d'une titrisation par les banques sur le cours de leur action. Le second traite des conséquences du choix du dirigeant de structurer la transaction en hors bilan sur les éléments comptables suivants : le taux de rentabilité économique, le taux d'endettement, le ratio de Bâle, et le niveau de risque de crédit. Les résultats de cette étude démontrent que, si le marché réagit négativement à l'annonce de la transaction, le recours à la titrisation, notamment lorsque celle-ci revêt une apparence hors bilan, s'inscrit en adéquation avec les intérêts personnels du dirigeant. / Financial crisis due to subprime mortgage loans put in light to public the use of a complex financial engineering technique : the securitization. Recourse to securitization presents an exponential growth during the last decade, as this kind of transaction is nowadays used as the preferential tool of financing in the USA and Europe. This dissertation aims to appreciate issues conveyed by the use of securitization in terms of accounting and financial communication for listed banking groups, taking into account interests brought by this transaction to the manager. This research is made following two steps. The first step aims to determine and explain the impact due to securitization announcement by banks onto share price. The second step deals with consequences of manager's choice to design transaction off-balance sheet on the following accounting items : return on assets, leverage, Basle ratio, and level of credit risk. Results from this research bring to light that, in spite of a negative market perception during the announcement of the transaction, the use of securitization and particularly when it appears as off-balance sheet, is adequate to satisfy manager's own interests.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-12T13:22:21Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO - ASLAN RODRIGUES.pdf: 1170400 bytes, checksum: 321be99da8f172d56a927b3ec197ab1c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-12T13:22:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO - ASLAN RODRIGUES.pdf: 1170400 bytes, checksum: 321be99da8f172d56a927b3ec197ab1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-31 / A presente dissertação tem por escopo analisar a pertinência e a existência jurídica – ou não – de danos extrapatrimoniais transindividuais, bem como a consequente responsabilização civil em caso de sua ocorrência. Essa análise será regida à sombra dos principais pressupostos teóricos da doutrina do direito civil na legalidade constitucional. A razão da escolha desta temática está assentada na atual necessidade de se aumentar o debate sobre a existência desta modalidade de dano, bem como as repercussões jurídicas e sociais em caso de sua ocorrência. A doutrina e a jurisprudência brasileiras ainda não consolidaram um entendimento a respeito desse novo enfoque jurídico. Trata-se de um tema controverso, germinado em meio aos avanços tecnológicos, aos meios de comunicação em massa e ao acelerado processo de globalização, que impuseram profundas mudanças sociais, ampliando a conceituação jurídica do dano extrapatrimonial. Serão debatidos os argumentos favoráveis e contrários à aceitação desta modalidade de danos. Por fim, será realizada uma análise crítica dos dois últimos recursos especiais, julgados pelo STJ, que tratam da temática estudada; apontando o atual entendimento da Corte Superior sobre o assunto. / This dissertation is to analyze the relevance and scope of the legal existence - or not - of trans-balance-sheet damage, and the consequent civil liability in the event of their occurrence. This analysis will be governed in the shadow of the main theoretical assumptions of the doctrine of civil law in constitutional legality. The reason for choosing this subject is seated on the current need to increase the debate about the existence of this type of damage, as well as the legal and social consequences in the event of their occurrence. The doctrine and Brazilian courts have not consolidated an understanding about this new legal approach. This is a controversial topic, sprouted amid the technological advances, the media en masse and the accelerated process of globalization, which imposed deep social changes, expanding the legal concept of off-balance sheet damage. The arguments for and against the acceptance of this type of damage will be discussed. Finally, a critical analysis of the last two special features will be held, judged by the Supreme Court, dealing with the studied subject; pointing the current understanding of the Superior Court on the matter.

Submitted by Bruno Santana (brunorafaelsantana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-03-04T22:06:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MPFEBruno Santana final.pdf: 947205 bytes, checksum: 6a2e0e761798cb1d0be840f79837ee82 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2013-03-05T13:25:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MPFEBruno Santana final.pdf: 947205 bytes, checksum: 6a2e0e761798cb1d0be840f79837ee82 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-03-05T13:27:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MPFEBruno Santana final.pdf: 947205 bytes, checksum: 6a2e0e761798cb1d0be840f79837ee82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-04 / Esta dissertação busca identificar a utilização de operações off-balance e instrumentos híbridos pelas empresas brasileiras. Seu objetivo é, além da utilização, verificar se o índice de transnacionalidade e o rating de crédito influenciam na decisão de utilizar ou não tais operações e instrumentos. Para isso, foram observadas as demonstrações financeiras e ratings das empresas participantes do índice IBrX-100 no período dos últimos três anos (2009, 2010 e 2011). Já para considerar o efeito da utilização das operações e instrumentos em razão do quão internacionalizadas são as empresas, este trabalho utiliza como critério a participação das empresas no ranking das transnacionais brasileiras no mesmo período acima citado. A análise revela que as empresas brasileiras mais internacionalizadas são mais sofisticadas que as menos internacionalizas e consequentemente se utilizam mais de instrumentos híbridos e operações off-balance. Ainda nesta linha, quando se divide as empresas por quartil, se chega ao resultado esperado que quanto mais internacionalizada a empresa, mais ela se utiliza destas operações e instrumentos. Além disso, também conclui que o rating influencia na utilização destes instrumentos e operações; quanto pior, mais a empresa se utiliza. Isso ocorre quando a métrica é o rating nacional, e não foram encontradas fortes evidências em relação ao rating estrangeiro. / This dissertation aims to identify the Brazilian companies’ use of off-balance sheet transactions and hybrid instruments. Its main objective is to verify if the transnationality index and the credit rating have any effects over the decision of the companies to make use or not of the mentioned transactions and instruments. For this purpose, we observe financial statements and credit ratings of the companies included in the IBrX-100 index in the last three years (2009, 2010 e 2011). In order to consider the effects of the utilization of the transactions and instruments by the most internationalized companies, we use as a criteria the participation of the companies in the Brazilian transnational companies ranking in the same period aforementioned. The results show that the more internationalized the more sophisticated is a Brazilian company and, as a consequence, these companies use more hybrid instruments and off-balance sheet transactions than the less internationalized companies. The same conclusion is obtained when the companies are divided by quartiles: the more internationalized the company, the more it uses these transactions and instruments. In addition, the results show that the worst the credit rating of a given company, the more it uses these transactions and instruments.