本研究探討我國導入一系列公平價值會計之市場反應，本文分別從市場景氣狀況以及財報品質、盈餘管理及公司治理四個面向檢視資本市場之反應。實證分析顯示，由於公平價值會計的順循環效果，於市場景氣較佳時其異常報酬較高，反之則較低，而金融業順循環效果比一般產業來的強，而財報品質愈差、盈餘管理可能性愈高、公司治理機制愈弱的企業，股票市場對此事件的正向反應愈強，其原因可能為公平價值會計導入將有助於提升財報品質、降低盈餘管理的機會，並減少內外部人資訊不對稱的情況。 本研究結果顯示公平價值會計的採行將有助於財報透明度的提升，避免企業財報隱藏其財報增減值的部分，對投資者是具有效益的，但同時，公平價值會計將財報資訊與市場景氣連結，將造成其財報數值的波動加劇。 / This research from four aspects, business cycle, financial reporting quality, earnings management, and corporate governance, examines that Taiwan stock market reaction to the seventeen events associated with adoption of Fair Value Accounting (FVA). The empirical results reveal that due to Fair Value Accounting’s procyclical effect, when economic is booming the market tends to positively react with FVA and banking industry displays a higher procyclical effect than other industries. The study also finds that with FVA investors tend to have positive reaction on firms’ pre-adoption information with lower financial quality, higher earnings management possibility and weaker corporate governance. The findings suggest that the FVA adaption increased the quality of financial reporting, reduced earning management and decreased information asymmetry. In the meantime, the FVA links financial reporting with business cycle which might aggravate the financial reporting’s fluctuation.

本研究針對國內1996至2003年68筆受證期局強制重編財報事件為研究對象，採個案與實證兼具之研究方法，探討財報強制重編之成因、外顯徵兆與經濟後果。 就財報強制重編之成因而言，本研究發現盈餘管理誘因亦適用於財報強制重編之情形；公司治理機制中控制權與所有權偏離程度的縮小、外部審計品質的提升與關係人交易之透明與簡單化，皆可以降低財報強制重編之機率。就財報強制重編之外顯徵兆，則發現會計師出具無保留以外之意見與損益品質的下降，為公司錯誤報導財務報表之重要指標。就財報強制重編之經濟後果，實證顯示財報強制重編與財務困難間具有顯著的關聯性。此外，本研究並發現財報重編影響的報表數愈多、金額幅度愈大、涉及業外非核心盈餘與投資損益之重編時，公司發生財務困難的可能性將顯著增加。 / This research employs both case study and empirical approaches to investigate the causes, demeanors and economic consequences of a sample of firms that were enforced by the Securities and future Bureau to restate their financial statements over the period of year 1996 to year 2003. The analysis of the causes of mandatory restatements shows that the motivations of earnings management also apply to the context of financial restatements. The firms with smaller deviation of control rights from the cash flow rights, higher audit quality and more transparency in related-party transactions help alleviate the probability of restatements. The results also indicate that unclean audit opinions and decrease in quality of earnings are important demeanors of misstatement of financial statements. In addition, firms are enforced to restate their financial statements are found to be significantly related to the occurrence of financial difficulties in the future. The findings show that the severer the materiality of the restatement in terms of the length of period, dollars, and the nature of the restatements, the higher the possibility of firms will experience financial difficulties.

本文探討我國銀行業執行盈餘管理的動機、工具及經濟後果。其中本研究以增額稅負的角度去探討銀行從事盈餘管理的經濟後果，本文就經濟後果的部分主要是以稅負的角度出發，是否銀行會因為盈餘管理而產生稅負成本為主要探討方向。　　 就資本市場動機部分，本文發現上市櫃銀行確實較公開發行銀行偏好小額正盈餘變動，也就是上市櫃公司由於資本市場的壓力而有盈餘管理的行為存在。接著本文設計兩個銀行業盈餘管理工具之估計式：將壞帳提列及出售票券損益之非權衡性因素，各自建立一迴歸模型，做為本研究捕捉銀行業盈餘管理的工具與金額，本文結果未能發現我國上市櫃銀行在從事盈餘管理行為時，有所謂增額稅負效果的證據。 / This study investigates the motivation, tools and economic consequences of earnings management of bankings. In particular, the main issue of this study is to investigate whether incremental tax is the economic consequences of bankings conducting earnings management. My results show that the listed bankings that issue the stocks in securities exchange markets have stronger earnings management. In other words, listed bankings will conduct earnings management to alleviate the pressure from the capital markets. Furthermore, this study also find two estimated equations of the tools of earnings management of the bankings: (1) discretionary loans provision and (2)discretionary gain and loss on sale of securities. I find no evidence to claim there are tax costs for the bankings engaging in earnings management.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:51:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 61060100567.pdf.jpg: 20106 bytes, checksum: 1ff7adf4792cc6a22adf6d7d1a9838cc (MD5) 61060100567.pdf: 845220 bytes, checksum: 2626aeceb589dd82625e0a79d1ed7a1b (MD5) 61060100567.pdf.txt: 236945 bytes, checksum: 2c82a62e156a9da7528d1164f9df2908 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-26T00:00:00Z / Este trabalho investiga a influência da participação de gestores de private equity e venture capital (PE/VC) na governança corporativa das empresas investidas. Mais especificamente, o objetivo do presente estudo é verificar se as empresas financiadas por fundos de PE/VC estréiam no mercado acionário brasileiro com melhor qualidade de informação contábil e melhores padrões de governança corporativa do que as restantes. A amostra utilizada é composta por 69 empresas que efetuaram oferta pública inicial (IPO) na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (BOVESPA) no período de janeiro de 2004 a julho de 2007. Primeiramente, constatou-se que o nível de gerenciamento de resultados contábeis, ou earnings management (medido pelas acumulações discricionárias correntes) das companhias com investimento de PE/VC é significativamente inferior ao nível apresentado pelas empresas que não receberam este tipo de aporte de capital. Ademais, os resultados indicam que a influência do gestor de PE/VC na redução da manipulação de informações contábeis é mais importante exatamente no momento mais crítico, ou seja, no intervalo imediatamente ao redor da data do IPO, quando as empresas gerenciam os resultados mais intensamente. Por fim, também foram encontradas evidências de que as empresas investidas por PE/VC possuem conselhos de administração mais independentes da gestão, em comparação às demais empresas da amostra. A proporção de membros executivos e instrumentais, estreitamente relacionados à administração, é menor entre o grupo de companhias do portfolio dos fundos de PE/VC, enquanto a participação relativa de conselheiros com a função de monitoramento é substancialmente maior. Os resultados obtidos no presente estudo foram robustos a diversos testes de sensibilidade. Em síntese, as evidências encontradas levam à conclusão de que as organizações de private equity e venture capital influenciam de forma positiva as práticas de governança corporativa das empresas por elas financiadas. / This paper investigates the role of private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) organizations in the corporate governance of portfolio firms. More specifically, the objective of the present study is to verify if the PE/VC-backed companies have better financial reporting quality and corporate governance standards than others at the time of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Brazil. The sample is composed of 69 firms’ IPOs on the Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (BOVESPA) in the period from January 2004 to July 2007. First, it was verified that PE/VCbacked companies have significantly lower earnings management (measured by the level of discretionary current accruals) than non-PE/VC-backed firms. Moreover, the results indicate that the influence of PE/VC managers in reducing the manipulation of accounting information is more important exactly in the most critical moment, that is, in the interval immediately around the date of the IPO, when firms manage earnings upwards more intensely. Finally, evidences have showed, as well, that PE/VC invested companies have boards of directors more independent from management, compared to other companies in the sample. The proportion of executive and instrumental members in the board, closely related to the management, is lower among the group of companies in the portfolio of PE/VC funds, while the participation of directors with the task of monitoring is substantially greater. The results obtained in this study were robust to different tests of sensitivity. In summary, the evidences found lead to the conclusion that private equity and venture capital organizations influence in a positive way the practices of corporate governance at companies they finance.

Submitted by Cristiane Oliveira (cristiane.oliveira@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T20:46:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100265.pdf: 815492 bytes, checksum: 2a1bcbf2ff173c39a76fb108fafd747c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão(vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T21:07:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100265.pdf: 815492 bytes, checksum: 2a1bcbf2ff173c39a76fb108fafd747c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão(vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T21:30:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100265.pdf: 815492 bytes, checksum: 2a1bcbf2ff173c39a76fb108fafd747c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-03T22:09:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100265.pdf: 815492 bytes, checksum: 2a1bcbf2ff173c39a76fb108fafd747c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-08 / This paper investigates whether the institutional environment, related to the level of investor protection in Latin American countries, contributes to reducing earnings management by firms. We use four models to detect earnings management (the Jones Model, Modified Jones Model, Modified Jones Model with ROA and the Kang & Sivaramakrishna Model). Our sample comprises 313 publicly held companies listed in the stock exchanges in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, during the period from 2006 to 2010, a total of 9,986 statistics company-year. The discretionary accruals were estimated using a twostage regression, firstly with panel data models and then with the model residuals as the dependent variable and the level of investor protection as the independent variable. The score for each country, published in the Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) Scorecard, is used as a proxy for the level of investor protection. There is evidence in line with the theory that a better institutional environment contributes to reducing not only earnings management, but also the variability in earnings management. These findings reveal that investor protection is an important factor in the development of countries in Latin America. Countries with systems that provide incentives for private investment, with better tax treatment, creditor protection, corporate governance and a standardized accounting system, present companies with a lower level of earnings management. / Nesta dissertação analisamos se o ambiente institucional relacionado ao nível de proteção dos investidores dos países da América Latina contribuiu para uma redução na prática de gerenciamento de resultados das empresas. Utilizamos quatro modelos para detectar a prática de gerenciamento de resultados (Jones Model, Modified Jones Model, Modified Jones Model with ROA e o Kang & Sivaramakrishna Model). A nossa amostra é formada pelas empresas de capital aberto e listada em bolsa nos países da Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, México e Peru, somando 313 empresas, para os anos de 2000 a 2009, totalizando 9.986 dados de empresa-trimestre. Utilizamos uma regressão em duas etapas, primeira usamos os modelos com dados em painel para estimar o discretionary accrual, em seguida, com o resíduo do modelo como variável dependente na segunda regressão sendo a variável independente o nível de proteção do investidor. A nota alcançada pelo país na pesquisa da Latin America Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) é usada como proxy para o nível de proteção ao investidor.. Há evidências em linha com a teoria de que um melhor ambiente institucional contribui para a diminuição não só da prática de gerenciamento de resultado, mas também as variabilidades do gerenciamento de resultados essas evidências reforçam a importância do fator proteção ao investidor para o desenvolvimento dos países da América Latina. Os países que possuem um sistema que incentive o investimento privado, com melhores tratamentos tributários, proteção aos credores, governança corporativa e padronização do sistema contábil, apresentam empresas com um menor nível de gerenciamento de resultado.

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2017-03-30T11:54:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1621815 bytes, checksum: b23db6cd8d6f29f38f0e3c56fdda248b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-30T11:55:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1621815 bytes, checksum: b23db6cd8d6f29f38f0e3c56fdda248b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-07 / The objective of this paper was to analyze how the relation between the simultaneity of proxies of the earnings quality. It was sought to achieve this goal through the formulation of an empirical model of structural equations based on evidence presented by the review of literature about the earnings quality. The sample used in this study included the firms that traded shares in the US capital market from 1985 to 2015. It was used as proxies for earnings quality consolidated according to Dechow, Ge and Schrand (2010), which was earnings management used by Paulo (2007), quality of accruals (DECHOW; DICHEV, 2002) and value relevance by the model of prices (COLLINS; MAYDEW; WEISS, 1997), while for firms chacarteristics were used total debt and firm size. The initial results obtained by multiple linear regression showed, in general, that for the proxies quality of the accruals and value relevance the relations of the characteristics of the firms were presented according to the evidences of the literature (DECHOW; GE; SCHRAND, 2010); While for earnings management, the firm size relationship was positive, contrary to the literature. Regarding the measurement of the quality of information as a latent variable, that is, incorporating all the dimensions analyzed, the relationships corroborated the evidence pointed out in the literature, that is, the management of results reduced the quality of the accounting information and the quality of accruals and value relevance increased, whereas size was positively related to the earnings quality, while debt negatively impacted the quality of accounting information. Regarding the quality of the adjustment statistics, they did not meet the satisfactory statistical requirements, according to Marôco (2010), for validation of the tested model. Thus, measuring the earnings quality simultaneously by structural equations produces the effects capable of explaining the quality of accounting information as a latent variable when realigned with the characteristics of firms. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar como se dá a relação entre a simultaneidade das proxies da qualidade da informação contábil. Buscou-se alcançar este objetivo através da formulação de um modelo empírico por equações estruturais baseado nas evidências apresentadas revisão da literatura acerca da qualidade da informação contábil. A amostra empregada neste estudo contou com as firmas que negociaram ações no mercado norte americano de capitais no período de 1985 a 2015. Utilizaram-se como proxies da qualidade da informação contábil variáveis consolidadas conforme Dechow, Ge e Schrand (2010), as quais foram o gerenciamento de resultados pelo modelo de Paulo (2007), qualidade dos accruals (DECHOW; DICHEV, 2002) e value relevance pelo modelo de preços (COLLINS; MAYDEW; WEISS, 1997), enquanto que para a característica das firmas utilizou-se o endividamento total e o tamanho das firmas. Os resultados iniciais realizados por regressão linear múltipla apontaram, de modo geral, que para as proxies qualidade dos accruals e value relevance as relações das características das firmas apresentaram-se de acordo com as evidências da literatura (DECHOW; GE; SCHRAND, 2010), ao passo que para o gerenciamento de resultados, a relação do tamanho da firma se mostrou positiva, contrariando a literatura. No que diz respeito a mensuração da qualidade da informação como variável latente, isto é, incorporando todas as dimensões analisadas, as relações corroboraram as evidências apontadas na literatura, ou seja, o gerenciamento de resultados reduziu a qualidade da informação contábil e a qualidade dos accruals e o value relevance a aumentaram, ao passo que o tamanho se relacionou positivamente com a qualidade da informação contábil, enquanto que o endividamento impactou negativamente a qualidade da informação contábil. No que diz respeito as estatísticas de qualidade do ajustamento, elas não alcançaram os requisitos estatísticos satisfatórios, de acordo com Marôco (2010), para validação do modelo testado. Sendo assim, mensurar a qualidade da informação contábil de forma simultânea por equações estruturais, produz os efeitos capazes de explicar a qualidade da informação contábil como variável latente quando relacionados com as características das firmas.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:31:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marta Cristina Pelucio Grecco.pdf: 992557 bytes, checksum: 539419ae7d82230dc40ffe5259361b13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-11-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this study was to evaluate whether changes in accounting practices brought reduction in earnings management of listed Brazilian non-financial companies, resulting in improvement of quality in accounting information. A sample of non-financial Brazilian companies (361 firms) was used. Data were collected at the website of the CVM or at the website of the companies, when necessary. To measure earnings management through discretionary accruals Jones Model and KS Model were applied, including the internationally used variations of these models and the use of polynomial equations. A model developed in this study was used to observe the effect of IFRS on earnings management of firms in periods Full- IFRS and Hybrid, and the restrictive effects of Big Four audit, corporate governance and regulatory environment. The results of earnings management were considered through discretionary accruals obtained by residues of the models that had better information as statistical results: Model Jones polynomial; Modified Jones Model by Kothari, Leone and Wasley (2005) original polynomial and omitting accounts receivable; Modified Jones Model by Teoh, Welch and Wong (1998) with the omission of the polynomial variation of accounts receivable and inclusion of ROA; and Model KS polynomial. Evidence was found that convergence to IFRS had a restrictive effect on earnings management in Brazil after the complete implementation of IFRS. Among the factors constraining earnings management studied by Big Four audit, corporate governance and regulatory environment, it was noted that the most effective is the regulatory environment. Entities, whose industry is regulated by a regulatory agency in addition to the CVM, have lower levels of earnings management than the others. It was also noted that the larger the company the lower is the level of earnings management. It is noteworthy that the process of convergence to IFRS in Brazil is recent, this way, this work was limited to short coverage periods of these standards. Given this limitation, it is suggested that more research would be conducted to examine earnings management in IFRS in Brazil in later periods, to validate the results obtained by this work, maintaining the reduced use of discretionary appropriations in light of IFRS in Brazil. / O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi avaliar se as mudanças nas práticas contábeis trouxeram redução no gerenciamento de resultados das empresas abertas brasileiras não financeiras, ocasionando uma melhoria na qualidade da informação contábil. Foi utilizada uma amostra composta por companhias abertas brasileiras não financeiras (361 empresas). Os dados foram coletados no sítio da CVM ou no sítio das próprias empresas, quando necessário. Para mensurar o gerenciamento de resultados por meio de apropriações discricionárias foram aplicados os Modelos Jones e KS, incluindo as variações internacionalmente utilizadas destes modelos e com uso de equações polinomiais. Foi utilizada uma modelagem desenvolvida neste trabalho para observar o efeito das IFRS no gerenciamento de resultados das empresas, nos períodos Full-IFRS e Híbrido, e dos efeitos restritivos de auditoria por Big Four, governança corporativa e ambiente regulatório. Foram considerados como apropriações discricionárias, os resíduos dos modelos de gerenciamento de resultados que apresentaram melhores informações conforme resultados estatísticos: Modelo Jones polinomial; Modelo Jones Modificado por Kothari, Leone e Wasley (2005) polinomial original e com omissão de contas a receber; Modelo Jones Modificado por Teoh, Welch e Wong (1998) polinomial com omissão da variação de contas a receber e com inclusão do ROA; e Modelo KS polinomial. Foram encontradas evidências de que a convergência às IFRS teve efeito restritivo no gerenciamento de resultados no Brasil após a implantação completa das IFRS. Entre os fatores restritivos ao gerenciamento de resultados estudados, auditoria por Big Four, governança corporativa e ambiente regulatório, notou-se que o mais efetivo é o ambiente regulatório. As entidades cujo setor é regulado por uma agência regulatória além da CVM, apresentam menores níveis de gerenciamento de resultados que as demais. Notou-se também que quanto maior a empresa menor o nível de gerenciamento de resultados. Ressalta-se que o processo de convergência às IFRS no Brasil ainda é recente, desta forma, este trabalho foi limitado ao curto período de vigência destas normas. Considerando-se esta limitação, sugere-se que sejam efetuadas mais pesquisas para analisar o gerenciamento de resultados na Era IFRS no Brasil em períodos posteriores, para validação dos resultados obtidos por este trabalho, com manutenção da redução do uso de apropriações discricionárias à luz das IFRS no Brasil.

The Thesis is focused on the concepts of audit committee and audit quality, which are the basic control mechanisms for the quality of financial statements. The Thesis first presents the reasons and conditions for the appointment of audit committee, then follows with the legal rules applicable for mandatory audit of financial statements and presents some common definitions and measures of audit quality. Next, the new regulation for mandatory audit in the European Union is presented. The practical part of the Thesis starts with an analysis of the annual reports of the companies that are a part of CZECH TOP 100 for the year 2014. The analysis is focused on auditor choice, audit fees, public interest entities and their obligation to appoint an audit committee. The next part contains an empirical analysis of the association between audit committee existence, auditor choice and audit quality, which is defined as the quality of reported earnings.

Bakgrund: 2005 infördes internationella redovisningsstandarder som innebar att många företag skulle redovisa enligt goodwill i enlighet med IAS36 och därmed utföra en årlig nedskrivningsprövning av goodwill. Denna nedgångsprövning av goodwill öppnar upp för subjektiva antagande och bidrar till att företagsledare får en möjlighet att agera opportunistiskt. Tidigare studier pekar på att nedskrivningen av goodwill bland annat kan påverkas av faktorerna big bath, resultatutjämning samt VD-byten, vilket bidrar till frågeställningen: Kan intressenter lita på redovisningen av goodwill? Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att genom att undersöka faktorer som kan påverka nedskrivning av goodwill förklarar huruvida intressenter kan lita på företag på Stockholmsbörsens redovisning av goodwill. Syftet är även att förklara huruvida redovisning av goodwillnedskrivning på Stockholmsbörsen uppfyller IASB:s krav på neutralitet. Metod: Studien innefattar en kvantitativ metod med abduktiv ansats. För att uppfylla syftet samlades data in från 90 slumpmässigt utvalda bolag. För att analysera detta användes multivariata regressioner i form av tobit regressionsanalys samt logistisk regressionsanalys. Analyserna utfördes både på urvalet som helhet och då urvalet var indelade utifrån vilken lista på Stockholmsbörsen de tillhört aktuellt år. Detta för att även kunna klargöra huruvida resultatet skiljer sig baserat på vilken lista företagen tillhör. Resultat och slutsatser: Vår studie visar att nedskrivning av goodwill i större utsträckning sker när resultatet är onormalt högt samt då bolag bytt VD under de två senaste räkenskapsåren. Detta betyder att intressenter inte fullt ut kan lita på företagens redovisning av goodwill. Resultatet visar även att ett VD-byte endast påverkar nedskrivning av goodwill bland urvalets minsta företag samt att resultatutjämning förekommer bland urvalets största och minsta företag men inte bland urvalets mellanstora företag. Detta indikerar att stora och små företag kan ha olika incitament att utöva resultatmanipulering. / Background: In 2005, international accounting standards were introduced, which meant that many companies would report goodwill in accordance with IAS36 and thereby perform an annual impairment test of goodwill. This impairment test of goodwill opens for subjective assumptions and contributes to business leaders being able to act opportunistically. Previous studies indicate that the impairment of goodwill can, among other things, be affected by factors like big bath, income smoothing and change of CEO. This contributes to the question: Can stakeholders trust the reporting of goodwill? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to, by examining factors that may affect the impairment of goodwill, explain whether stakeholders can trust companies listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm’s reporting of goodwill. The purpose is also to explain whether the reporting of goodwill impairment on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm meets IASB:s requirements for neutrality. Methodology: The study includes a quantitative method with an abductive approach. To fulfill the purpose, data was collected from 90 randomly selected companies listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm. To analyze this, multivariate regressions were used in the form of tobit regression analysis and logistic regression analysis. These analyzes were performed both on the sample but also when the sample was divided based on which list on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm they belonged to in the current year. This was done so that it could also be clarified whether the result differs based on which list the companies belong to. Results and conclusion: Our study shows that goodwill impairment occurs in bigger extent when the results are abnormally high and when companies have changed CEO during the last 2 years. This means that stakeholders cannot fully trust the companies’ reporting of goodwill. The result also show that a change of CEO only affects the impairment of goodwill among the sample’s smallest companies and that income smoothing occurs among the largest and smallest companies in the sample but not among the middle-sized companies in the sample. This indicate that large and small companies may have different incentives to exercise earnings management.

Denna studie undersöker företagsspecifika ekonomiska faktorer och opportunistiska incitamentrelaterade faktorer hos företagsledare som är bestämmande för aktualisering av goodwillnedskrivning i den svenska kontexten. År 2005 implementerade International Accounting Standard Board principbaserade riktlinjer avseende redovisning av goodwill enligt IAS 36 mot tidigare systematiska avskrivningar av goodwill. Implementeringen avsåg att förbättra redovisning av goodwill genom att förse användarna av finansiella rapporter med mer värderelevant information avseende tillgångens underliggande prestation. Dock har det nya principbaserade reglementet kritiserats av forskare mot bakgrund av diskretionen som medföljer av IAS 36 vid nedskrivningsprövningar som kan ge upphov till opportunistiska incitament hos företagsledare. Undersökningen avgränsas till Nasdaq Stockholm i betraktande av att tidigare forskning visat inkonsekventa forskningsresultat avseende vilka faktorer som är bestämmande för goodwill nedskrivning samt att det föreligger få empiriska belägg och olika argument inom redovisningslitteraturen. Undersökningen utgörs av totalt 285 företag på Nasdaq Stockholm över fem undersökningsår, vilket efter täckningsfel och bortfall resulterar i 1090 företagsobservationer. Det empiriska resultatet tyder att företagsledare i den svenska kontexten under diskretionen som medföljer av IAS 36 agerar opportunistiskt för att uppnå eftertraktade resultat vid nedskrivningsprövningar, specifikt vid positionsbyte av den verkställande direktören och resultatutjämning vid abnormt höga resultat, och inte fullständigt följer företagsspecifika ekonomiska kriterier som följer av IAS 36 vid bedömning av kassagenererande enheters återvinningsvärde. Det subjektiva utrymmet vid nedskrivningsprövningar medför praktiska och teoretiska implikationer för användare av finansiella rapporter, utövare och normgivare. / This study examines factors associated to business specific characteristics and factors associated to opportunistic incentives by executives that are determining for actualization of goodwill impairment losses in the Swedish context. In 2005, the International Accounting Standard Board implemented principle-based guidelines regarding the recognition of goodwill in accordance with IAS 36 against previously systematic amortization of goodwill. The implementation was issued to improve the recognition of goodwill by providing users of financial reports with more value-relevant information regarding the asset's underlying performance. However, the new principle-based regulations have been criticized by researchers considering the discretion that follows with IAS 36 in impairment tests that may give rise to opportunistic incentives on the part of executives. The study is limited to Nasdaq Stockholm, owing to previous research showing inconsistent results regarding the factors that determine goodwill impairment losses and that there are few empirical evidence and different arguments in the accounting literature. The survey consists of a total of 285 companies on Nasdaq Stockholm over five examination years, which after coverage errors and omissions results in 1090 observations. The empirical result indicates that executives in Sweden under the discretion that are incorporated with IAS 36 act opportunistically to achieve coveted results in impairment tests, specifically in the change of position of the CEO and in managing of earnings by equalizing results in periods of abnormally high results, and do not fully follow business specific financials criteria that follows from IAS 36 when assessing the recoverable amount of cash generating units. The subjective scope of impairment tests entails practical and theoretical implications for users of financial reports, practitioners and normsetters.