A crise vivida pela economia mundial em 2008 trouxe consigo inúmeras oportunidades de crescimento e internacionalização para empresas brasileiras, conforme divulgação da Pwc (Price Waterhouse e Coopers), com base na pesquisa do Jornal Valor Econômico. A internacionalização dessas empresas, além das oportunidades de crescimento, aduziu novas responsabilidades legais, entre elas a introduzida pelo Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC), em seu pronunciamento técnico nº 2, regulamentado pela Deliberação n° 640/10 da Comissão de Valores Mobiliários. Esse pronunciamento possui características semelhantes ao Statement nº 52 do Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) norte-americano e visa melhorar a qualidade das informações contábeis, proporcionando maior transparência e credibilidade às demonstrações contábeis no âmbito internacional. Neste cenário globalizado, o Brasil necessita se equiparar aos mais de cem países que já adaptaram suas normas ao contexto internacional e começar a utilizar uma única linguagem contábil. Portanto, objetiva-se com esse estudo examinar as exigências que o CPC 2 trouxe para as empresas brasileiras que internacionalizaram seus negócios e quais as principais semelhanças e diferenças entre o CPC 2 e o FASB 52. Estes pronunciamentos auxiliam e regulamentam as Leis contábeis no foco de conversão da moeda, com o principal objetivo de estar convergentes e padronizadas. Nesse sentido conclui-se que a harmonização das normas contábeis é necessária e inevitável, visto que fortalece a profissão e a linguagem contábil que cada vez mais se padroniza mundialmente, mesmo reconhecendo-se que existem diferenças tributárias entre países. Deste modo faz-se necessário estar sempre atualizado. O contador do século XXI terá que se tornar um profissional com muito mais organização e disciplina, e sua profissão já está caracterizada pela modernidade e variedade em campos de atuação. O estudo realizado através de pesquisa bibliográfica, também, em normas americanas e brasileiras. Citando principais divergências e convergências entre os países. Sendo de principal importância para os estudiosos e profissionais da área. / The crisis in the world economy in 2008 brought with it numerous opportunities for growth and internationalization for Brazilian companies, as disclosed by PwC Brazil, based on the newspaper Valor Economico research. The internationalization of these companies and the growth opportunities, put forward new legal responsibilities, including the introduced by the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC), in its technical pronouncement # 2, regulated by Resolution No. 640/10 of the Brazilian Securities Commission. This statement has similar characteristics to Statement 52 of the Financial Accounting Standarts Board (FASB) US and aims to improve the quality of accounting information, providing greater transparency and credibility to the financial statements at the international level. In this globalized scenario, Brazil needs to equate to more than one hundred countries have adapted their standards to the international context and start recording a single accounting language. Therefore, aims at presenting what conditions the CPC 2 brought to the Brazilian companies to internationalize their business and what are the main similarities and differences between the CPC 2 and 52. These FASB pronouncements and help regulate the accounting laws on currency conversion focus with the main objective to be convergent and standardized. In this sense it is concluded that the harmonization of accounting standards is necessary and inevitable, as strengthens the profession and the accounting language and increasingly standardizes worldwide. Of course, knowing that there is tax differences between countries. In this mode it is necessary to be always up to date. The XXI Century counter will have to become a professional with more organization and discipline, and their profession is already characterized by modernity and variety in fields. The study conducted through literature search also in American and Brazilian standards. Citing major differences and similarities between countries. It is of prime importance to scholars and professionals.

A crise vivida pela economia mundial em 2008 trouxe consigo inúmeras oportunidades de crescimento e internacionalização para empresas brasileiras, conforme divulgação da Pwc (Price Waterhouse e Coopers), com base na pesquisa do Jornal Valor Econômico. A internacionalização dessas empresas, além das oportunidades de crescimento, aduziu novas responsabilidades legais, entre elas a introduzida pelo Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC), em seu pronunciamento técnico nº 2, regulamentado pela Deliberação n° 640/10 da Comissão de Valores Mobiliários. Esse pronunciamento possui características semelhantes ao Statement nº 52 do Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) norte-americano e visa melhorar a qualidade das informações contábeis, proporcionando maior transparência e credibilidade às demonstrações contábeis no âmbito internacional. Neste cenário globalizado, o Brasil necessita se equiparar aos mais de cem países que já adaptaram suas normas ao contexto internacional e começar a utilizar uma única linguagem contábil. Portanto, objetiva-se com esse estudo examinar as exigências que o CPC 2 trouxe para as empresas brasileiras que internacionalizaram seus negócios e quais as principais semelhanças e diferenças entre o CPC 2 e o FASB 52. Estes pronunciamentos auxiliam e regulamentam as Leis contábeis no foco de conversão da moeda, com o principal objetivo de estar convergentes e padronizadas. Nesse sentido conclui-se que a harmonização das normas contábeis é necessária e inevitável, visto que fortalece a profissão e a linguagem contábil que cada vez mais se padroniza mundialmente, mesmo reconhecendo-se que existem diferenças tributárias entre países. Deste modo faz-se necessário estar sempre atualizado. O contador do século XXI terá que se tornar um profissional com muito mais organização e disciplina, e sua profissão já está caracterizada pela modernidade e variedade em campos de atuação. O estudo realizado através de pesquisa bibliográfica, também, em normas americanas e brasileiras. Citando principais divergências e convergências entre os países. Sendo de principal importância para os estudiosos e profissionais da área. / The crisis in the world economy in 2008 brought with it numerous opportunities for growth and internationalization for Brazilian companies, as disclosed by PwC Brazil, based on the newspaper Valor Economico research. The internationalization of these companies and the growth opportunities, put forward new legal responsibilities, including the introduced by the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC), in its technical pronouncement # 2, regulated by Resolution No. 640/10 of the Brazilian Securities Commission. This statement has similar characteristics to Statement 52 of the Financial Accounting Standarts Board (FASB) US and aims to improve the quality of accounting information, providing greater transparency and credibility to the financial statements at the international level. In this globalized scenario, Brazil needs to equate to more than one hundred countries have adapted their standards to the international context and start recording a single accounting language. Therefore, aims at presenting what conditions the CPC 2 brought to the Brazilian companies to internationalize their business and what are the main similarities and differences between the CPC 2 and 52. These FASB pronouncements and help regulate the accounting laws on currency conversion focus with the main objective to be convergent and standardized. In this sense it is concluded that the harmonization of accounting standards is necessary and inevitable, as strengthens the profession and the accounting language and increasingly standardizes worldwide. Of course, knowing that there is tax differences between countries. In this mode it is necessary to be always up to date. The XXI Century counter will have to become a professional with more organization and discipline, and their profession is already characterized by modernity and variety in fields. The study conducted through literature search also in American and Brazilian standards. Citing major differences and similarities between countries. It is of prime importance to scholars and professionals.

Typical accounting studies attempting to explain accounting method choice employ positive theoretical hypotheses and test for association between adoption method or adoption timing and economic measures that focus upon specific firm stakeholders. Such studies addressing the adoption and impact of SFAS 87, "Employer's Accounting for Pensions," yield mixed and contradicting results. Various researchers have suggested that traditional economic analysis often fails to capture important explanatory variables and is far too simplistic. The purpose of this study is to expand analysis by evaluating a particular accounting choice by means of three different characterizations. SFAS 106, "Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions," allows management to choose between two very different methods of adopting the standard. The principal question explored in this study is: why did managers of firms that employ defined benefit postretirement plans for benefits other than pensions choose to adopt SFAS 106 using a particular method? The research question is explored by means of three different characterizations: 1) a traditional economic characterization; 2) a sociopolitical characterization); and 3) a joint decision characterization. Logit methodology is used with method of SFAS 106 adoption as the binary dependent variable of interest. Results indicate that all three characterizations are important in understanding the SFAS 106 adoption method choice. Further, each characterization adds separate information toward comprehension of the choice, supporting the notion of the complexity of accounting choice issues.

This study uses concurrent verbal protocol analysis to examine the decision processes of lenders as they evaluate the financial information of a loan applicant. Of specific interest is the lenders' use of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Board No. 95 (FAS 95), Statement of Cash Flows, in that decision process.

Le FASB et le CNC ont adopté dans un projet commun un nouveau mode de présentation de l'information sectorielle, en se fondant sur l'approche proposée par l'AIMR et l'AICPA, intitulée « l'approche organisationnelle » ou « sectorisation organisationnelle ». Suite à ce projet, une nouvelle norme a vu le jour, soit la SFAS 131, « Disclosures about Segments of an Entreprise and Related Information » et le chapitre 1701, « Information sectorielle ». La norme élaborée conjointement entre le FASB et le CNC demande aux sociétés de publier leur information segmentée à partir des découpages faits par les entreprises et servant de base à la prise de leurs décisions opérationnelles ainsi qu'à la mesure de leur performance interne. Selon un bon nombre d'études, la nouvelle norme a enrichi l'environnement informationnel par la production d'un grand volume d'information sectorielle divulguée par les entreprises. En outre, ces études ont démontré que les risques associés à la firme, soient le bid-ask spread, l'asymétrie de l'information et la dispersion des consensus des analystes financiers seront tous réduits suite à l'adoption de cette norme. Malgré l'existence de ce grand support en faveur des vertus de cette norme, il existe néanmoins un nombre grandissant de critiques à son égard. En effet, quantité d'études indiquent que les multiples problèmes que suscite cette norme provoquent la prolifération de choix discrétionnaires en matière de divulgation sectorielle de la part des dirigeants, ce qui peut exercer une influence sur la qualité de l'environnement informationnel de la firme. Par conséquent, et étant donné les avantages et les désavantages de cette norme, on ne peut dire si cette norme contribuera à l'existence d'un environnement informationnel inférieur ou supérieur. Cette étude vise à démontrer l'existence d'une association entre la politique de divulgation sectorielle et la structure de la gouvernance au sein des entreprises canadiennes soumises à la norme ICCA, chapitre 1701. La direction exerce son choix dans la détermination des secteurs à publier, dans l'identification des actifs associés à chaque secteur et dans l'allocation des coûts à l'égard des secteurs afin d'estimer les profits d'exploitation de chacun de ces secteurs. Cette étude examine les variables de gouvernance d'entreprise pouvant influencer le niveau de publication sectorielle choisi. Les associations trouvées entre la publication sectorielle et la gouvernance peuvent fournir un éclairage sur les choix de publication et devraient être pertinentes dans la découverte de nouveaux aspects relatifs aux exigences de publication sectorielle et dans la formulation de nouvelles politiques de publication. Dans cette étude, la principale hypothèse est que la gouvernance à travers ses variables et ses mécanismes détermine le niveau de l'information sectorielle telle qu'elle est publiée par les entreprises canadiennes adoptant la norme ICCA chapitre 1701. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Divulgation sectorielle, SFAS 131, ICCA 1701, Gouvernance d'entreprises, Sectorisation organisationnelle.

To consider the international trend and enhance the global competitiveness of Taiwan enterprises, the Government committed to convert the domestic accounting standards to International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). Taiwan Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No.10, ¡§Inventories¡¨, was revised to adopt IFRS and effective on January 1, 2009 under this background. New SFAS No.10 has different rules on inventory evaluation and has significant impacts on inventory decision-making and operating profits, which may cause much high pressure on companies¡¦ operating performance. Based on this assumption, this research would like to know whether adopting the new SFAS No.10 can affect earnings management behavior by studying the relations between inventories related financial factors and accrual-based earnings management. This research takes the absolute value of discretionary accruals (ADA) from the Modified Jones Model as a measuring indicator of earnings management; and selects six sequential quarterly financial statements of listed companies in Taiwan Stock Exchange Market before and after adopting new SFAS No.10. The total sampling periods are twelve quarters from the third quarter of 2007 to the second quarter of 2010. The empirical results of this study are summarized as follows: 1.After adopting New SFAS No.10, the levels of using discretionary accruals for earnings management are significantly reduced. 2.Gross Profit Margin and Inventory Turnover Rate both have significant correlations with using discretionary accruals for earnings management. 3.Companies have shorter product life cycles are more evident in using discretionary accruals for earnings management. 4.Fixed Assets to Total Assets Rate and Provision of Inventory Loss both have no significant correlations with using the discretionary accruals for earnings management.

Prior to the issuance of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 8 (SFAS No. 8), there was a marked inconsistency in the area of accounting for foreign currency translation. Though designed to make the diverse accounting practices of multinational corporations (MNCs) more compatible, SFAS No. 8 was the subject of a great deal of criticism, eventually leading to the issuance of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 52 (SFAS No. 52). SFAS No. 52 differs from SFAS No. 8 on objectives and method of translation, and on accounting treatments of translation adjustments. This dissertation provides an empirical examination of the security market reaction to the accounting policy change embodied in SFAS No. 52, and its impact on the volatility of reported earnings of MNCs. The effects of the issuance and early adoption of SFAS No. 52 on security return distributions were determined by both cross-sectional comparisons of cumulative average residuals (CAR) between MNCs and domestic firms and between early and late adopters, and by time-series tests on CAR of MNCs. Two volume analyses were performed to test the effects of SFAS No. 52 on security volume. The first analysis was adjusted to remove the effects of the marketwide factors on volume, and the second analysis was unadjusted for the market influences. Four nonparametric tests were used in testing the effects of SFAS No. 52 vis-a-vis SFAS No. 8 on the volatility of reported earnings of MNCs. The findings of this study led to the following conclusions: (1) SFAS No. 52 had significantly affected security returns of MNCs, but had no significant effects on security volume of MNCs; (2) the early adoption of SFAS No. 52 had no effects on security returns and volume of early adopters as opposed to late adopters; and (3) SFAS No. 52 did not have any significant effects on the volatility of reported earnings of MNCs. However, the impact of exchange adjustments on MNCs* earnings under SFAS No. 52 was significantly affected by the size of foreign operations and industry classifications.

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Because of the non-recurring and transitory nature of discontinued operations, accounting standards require that the results of discontinued operations be separately reported on the income statement. Prior accounting literature supports the view that discontinued operations are non-recurring or transitory in nature, and also suggests that income classified as transitory has minimal relevance in firm valuation. Finance and management literature, however, suggest that firms discontinue operations to strategically utilize their scarce resources. Assuming that discontinued operations are a result of managerial motives to strategically concentrate resources into remaining continued operations, this dissertation examines the informativeness of discontinued operations. In doing so, this dissertation empirically tests the financial performance, investment efficiency, valuation, and analyst forecast accuracy effects of discontinued operations. In 2001, Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 144 (hereafter SFAS 144) replaced Accounting Principles Board's Opinion 30 (hereafter APB 30) and broadened the scope of divestiture transactions to be presented in discontinued operations. Some stakeholders of financial statements argued that discontinued operations were less decision-useful in the SFAS 144 era because too many transactions that do not represent a strategic shift in operations were separately stated as discontinued operations on the income statement. With the possibility that the discontinued operations reported in SFAS 144 era may not reflect a major strategic reallocation of resources, this dissertation examines whether the relationship between discontinued operations, firm performance, investment efficiency, and analyst forecast accuracy are different in the pre-SFAS 144 and SFAS 144 era. Using a sample of firms that discontinued operations between 1990 and 2012, this dissertation study finds limited evidence that firms experience improvement in financial performance following discontinued operations and that such improvement is only observed in pre-SFAS 144 era. The results also suggest that any improvement in financial performance documented is conditional on the profitability of the operations discontinued and provide no support for investment efficiency improvement following discontinued operations. Related to the valuation implications of discontinued operations, this dissertation shows that investors differentially value profitable and loss discontinued operations. However, such valuation differences are not dependent on the performance improvement implications. Finally, results support that analyst forecast accuracy of earnings decreases following the reporting of discontinued operations, but such effect is only observed in the pre-SFAS 144 era. This dissertation makes several contributions to the literature. First, this study extends the literature on corporate divestment by using a large sample of discontinuation decisions and hand-collected data on the profitability of the operations discontinued. Second, this research extends the literature on market studies by analyzing whether market response to a discontinuation decision is dependent upon the profitability of the operation discontinued. Third, based upon a review of the literature, it is believed that this is the first study to examine the possibility that analyst forecast accuracy may change following a discontinuation decision. Finally, this study extends the literature that examines the effects of changes in accounting rules and regulations on the informativeness of financial statement items. These results should be of interest to investors, regulators, and analysts.

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