This thesis investigates the impact of accounting standard IAS39 on banking institutions in Greece and the UK. It specifically addresses preparers’ perceptions of that standard’s effects on the banking books of banks. The research involves a mixed methodology, namely: (i) a survey analysis of the perceptions of banking practitioners in Greece and the UK, in order to identify the standard’s impact on the banking sector as well as to gauge the standard’s acceptance of banks, in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of the implications of the standard for their organisations. ‘Elite’ interviews also advocate that such high powered individuals are the key holders to privy information. The results suggest that IAS39 is a highly controversial standard that introduces concerns not only for the banks’ valuation of assets and liabilities but also regulatory concerns over issues of policy formulation and stability. Generally, bankers are negative and largely sceptical of the standard, on the grounds of relevance and reliability. They do not view the standard as particularly useful, relevant, reliable or transparent for banking disclosures and financial stability when compared to the current mixed methodology approach followed currently for the valuation of assets and liabilities in the banking books of banks. Most concerns revolve around the standard’s effects on valuation of assets and liabilities, provisioning and hedging issues and bank capital management for regulatory capital purposes. In the introduction of accounting standards attention should be paid to the nature of the industry and the system (i.e. credit versus market-based) in which firms operate, as well as to establishing particular methodologies. It touches upon a contemporary issue of critical topical and international interest, of how accounting information standards relate to the systemic, operating, credit, market and liquidity risks of a modern, internationalised banking system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:521154 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis |
| Publisher | University of Aberdeen |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=128193 |
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