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This book comprehensively examines accounting conservatism and its relationship with the stock market. Through a historical overview and a review of recent literature, it explores the evolution of conservatism research and the conceptual developments, measurement advancements, and empirical findings produced by academic scholars over the last decades. Additionally, it critically evaluates the applicability of conservatism models developed in the U.S. market to the Italian setting, offering a thorough analysis of their validity. Furthermore, the book presents novel empirical findings on conservatism's impact on the Italian stock market during the Covid-19 pandemic. This nuanced exploration offers valuable insights for academics, practitioners, and researchers seeking to understand the complexities of financial reporting practices in diverse market environments.

This proceedings volume offers a diverse compilation of scholarly papers that explores financial markets and corporate reporting in times of geopolitical crises. Featuring a selection of papers presented at the 2022 and 2023 Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting (ACFA) held in Prague, Czech Republic, this book provides empirical research, insightful analyses and practical implications on the challenges and opportunities in today's global financial landscape. It covers a wide spectrum of research methodologies including modeling, empirical testing, cases studies, and qualitative analysis. From investigating the economics of crypoassets to examining sustainable finance development issues, this book is valuable to academics, scholars, researchers, and policymakers in finance and accounting, including auditing and tax theory.

This book gives an overview of the most common techniques used by analysts and experts to assess and value banks in all phases of a Bank's life, from licensing to resolution. These include licensing procedures, going concern market valuation techniques, liquidation, and resolution methodologies. The author sheds light on financial institutions'reporting and financial statements and explains how to interpret the data. Special attention is given to the different valuation approaches for financial institutions ranging from the basic PE and PBV methodologies to the more sophisticated ones such Discount cash flow (DCF), Dividend discount model (DDM), excess return models (EVA), and their variant, the warranted equity value (WEV) method. The authors also illustrate how to build a sum-of-the-parts model (SOTP) and how to treat capital in the process as well as developing a bottom-up approach for the cost of equity. The book provides numerous real-world examples which will hopefully help practitioners build their own MS Excel models. Furthermore, this publication investigates some of the critical aspects of banking M&A and its valuation implications. This book also takes a deep dive into valuation for Banks in gone concern status, describing the basis for three different types of valuation of Banks in resolution: to inform a decision on whether to put a bank into resolution; to inform the choice of resolution tools and the extent of any bail-in of liabilities; and to determine whether any creditors would have been better off had the bank gone into insolvency. Special attention is given to the valuation of non-performing loans (NPLs) and financial assets focusing on some operational aspects of winding-down a bank's loan and trading book portfolio.

Die primäre Zielsetzung der IFRS-Abschlüsse besteht in der Bereitstellung entscheidungsnützlicher Informationen, um die Funktionsfähigkeit der Kapitalmärkte zu ermöglichen. Dabei kommt der Fair Value Bewertung eine immer größere Bedeutung zu, da insbesondere Investoren für ihre Entscheidungsfindung zeitnahe und zukunftsgerichtete Informationen benötigen. Den Rechnungslegungsnormenkontext bietet hierfür der IFRS 13 „Fair Value Measurement“, der anhand der Objektivität der für die Fair Value Bewertung herangezogenen Inputfaktoren Fair Values in drei Hierarchiestufen einteilt (sog. Fair Value Hierarchie). Hier setzt die vorliegende Arbeit an und zeigt, dass sowohl objektive Fair Values in Form von Marktpreisen (Hierarchiestufe 1) als auch modellbasierte Fair-Value-Schätzungen (Hierarchiestufe 2 und 3) entscheidungsnützliche Informationen für Investoren darstellen. Dennoch führt ein durch Bewertungsspielräume begründeter Abfall der Objektivität entlang der Hierarchiestufen zu einer Abnahme der Entscheidungsnützlichkeit von Fair-Value-Informationen. Zudem ergibt die empirische Untersuchung, dass die Entscheidungsnützlichkeit von Fair Values durch länderspezifische Faktoren wie systembedingte, ökonomische und kulturelle Faktoren beeinflusst wird.Die AutorinTatjana Wirt hat an der Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Duisburg-Essen promoviert.

This book focuses on the impact of the disclosure of non-financial risk, which could be seen as the most relevant non-financial information (NFI), in the aftermath of the 2014/95/EU Directive. The author analyses whether the switch from voluntary to mandatory NFI enhance the quality of disclosed NF risk-related information and the usefulness of the risk disclosure for investors. The book focuses specifically on the mandatory disclosure of non-financial (NF) risks as required by the EU Directive for listed Italian companies, investigating both the state of art of its disclosure and its usefulness for investors. In doing so, the book contributes to fill two relevant gaps in risk literature. The first research gap is related to the insufficient investigation of the disclosure of NF risks. Companies mandated to disclose risk-related information focused mainly on financial risks, in spite of the width of the definition of risk, conceived as information about any opportunity, danger,threat, or exposure that has or could impact the company in the future. The second gap is that empirical evidence about the effects of corporate risk disclosures is still limited, and the potential benefits of the disclosure of information on risks have not been fully explored. In particular, the relationship between risk disclosures and firm value is under researched, as the risk literature mainly focuses on the incentives question, related to the motives for which companies decide to disclose. The research in this book focuses on Italy, a country that provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of mandatory NF risk disclosure on firm market value, being one of the biggest industrial European countries that had not mandatory legislation for NFI disclosure, and also one of the leading countries in voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting at an international level. It has been carried out in the fiscal year 2017, the first year of the application of themandatory NF disclosure for obliged Italian listed PIEs. The book contributes both to the measurement literature, as it presents a self-constructed quality NF risks and to the value relevance analysis literature, providing evidence of the usefulness of financial and non-financial risk-related disclosures in the Italian context.

In diesem Buch befasst sich der Autor auf theoretischer und laborexperimenteller Ebene mit einer noch jungen Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Unternehmenskommunikation, der sogenannten integrierten Berichterstattung (Integrated Reporting, IR). Während die theoretisch-kritische Auseinandersetzung u. a. auf die Evaluierung eines potentiellen Mehrwertes abzielt, rückt das Laborexperiment, welches im Essener Labor für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung durchgeführt wurde, Urteile und Entscheidungen privater Investoren in den Mittelpunkt. Die Ergebnisse der Analysen bereichern den in Wissenschaft und Praxis geführten Diskurs um die Vorteilhaftigkeit der Berichtsform IR.

Now in its fifth edition, Derivatives and Internal Models provides a comprehensive and thorough introduction to derivative pricing, risk management and portfolio optimization, covering all relevant topics with enough hands-on, depth of detail to enable readers to develop their own pricing and risk tools. The book provides insight into modern market risk quantification methods such as variance-covariance, historical simulation, Monte Carlo, hedge ratios, etc., including time series analysis and statistical concepts such as GARCH Models or Chi-Square-distributions. It shows how optimal trading decisions can be deduced once risk has been quantified by introducing risk-adjusted performance measures and a complete presentation of modern quantitative portfolio optimization. Furthermore, all the important modern derivatives and their pricing methods are presented; from basic discounted cash flow methods to Black-Scholes, binomial trees, differential equations, finite difference schemes, Monte Carlo methods, Martingales and Numeraires, terms structure models, etc. The fifth edition of this classic finance book has been comprehensively reviewed. New chapters/content cover multicurve bootstrapping, the valuation and hedging of credit default risk that is inherently incorporated in every derivative—both of which are direct and permanent consequences of the financial crises with a large impact on our understanding of modern derivative valuation. The book will be accompanied by downloadable Excel spread sheets, which demonstrate how the theoretical concepts explained in the book can be turned into valuable algorithms and applications and will serve as an excellent starting point for the reader's own bespoke solutions for valuation and risk management systems.

This book provides researchers and scholars with a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of earnings management theory and literature. While it raises new questions for future research, the book can be also helpful to other parties who rely on financial reporting in making decisions like regulators, policy makers, shareholders, investors, and gatekeepers e.g., auditors and analysts. The book summarizes the existing literature and provides insight into new areas of research such as the differences between earnings management, fraud, earnings quality, impression management, and expectation management; the trade-off between earnings management activities; the special measures of earnings management; and the classification of earnings management motives based on a comprehensive theoretical framework.

Leading analyst Sandy Chen provides a thorough guide to the analysis and valuation of banks. Unlike other businesses and institutions, banks have a number of unique characteristics that need to be taken into account when performing a valuation and as such traditional valuation methodologies are unsuitable and more specialized techniques required.

Event Studies are overwhelmingly widespread in financial research, providing tools for shedding light on market efficiency, as well as measuring the impact of various occurrences on public firms'security prices. Mastering the Event Study approach is essential for researchers and practitioners alike. Event Studies for Financial Research aims to help readers obtain valuable hands-on experience with Event Study tools and gain technical skills for conducting their own studies. Kliger and Gurevich provide a detailed application of their approach, which consists of: a description of the method; references; guided applications; and elaborated framework for implementing the applications.

​Mit der zu verzeichnenden Internationalisierung der Kapitalmarktkommunikation geht eine Ausrichtung der Wirtschaftsprüfung an internationalen Prüfungsnormen einher. Jochen C. Theis geht der Frage nach, wie der individuelle Kapitalmarktteilnehmer Informationen verarbeitet, die ihm im Rahmen der Kapitalmarktkommunikation bzw. der Berichterstattung des Wirtschaftsprüfers zur Verfügung gestellt werden. In mehreren empirischen Teilstudien zeigt sich u.a., dass Individuen bei der Verarbeitung von Chancen und Risiken im Lagebericht Reihenfolgeeffekten und damit einer Verzerrung im Sinne der Behavioral Finance unterliegen können. Ebenso wird gezeigt, dass ein Review Report nach ISRE 2400 dem Kapitalmarktteilnehmer den vom Wirtschaftsprüfer erlangten Grad an Prüfungssicherheit adäquat vermittelt.

Aktuelle Reformbestrebungen hinsichtlich der Qualitätsstärkung der Abschlussprüfung sowie die damit verbundene Zielsetzung der politischen Entscheidungsträger, die Funktionsfähigkeit der Kapitalmärkte zu stärken, werfen die Frage auf, welche Bedeutung Indikatoren für die Prüfungsqualität aus Sicht der Kapitalmarktteilnehmer besitzen. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert Johanna Souad Qandil die Wahrnehmung bestimmter Indikatoren der Prüfungsqualität aus Sicht der Eigenkapitalgeber börsennotierter Unternehmen. Methodisch greift sie dabei sowohl im theoretischen als auch im empirischen Teil ein Verständnis auf, nach dem die Qualität der Abschlussprüfung durch ihre Dimensionen, und diese determiniert durch Indikatoren, abgebildet wird.

Investor Relations for the Emerging Company provides enduring advice, insight, and procedures that will help companies communicate, legally and ethically, their commitment to enhancing shareholder value. This revised edition updates Sarbanes-Oxley; Frank-Dodd act and new governance regulations.

Objectif et fonction de la gestion financièreL'environnement économique de l'entrepriseL'analyse des états financiersL'analyse des coûts pour la prise de décisionL'actualisation, la capitalisation et les décisions financièresIntroduction à l'analyse des investissementsLes critères de choix des investissementsL'analyse de la rentabilité des projets d'investissementNotions fondamentales et instruments de mesure du risqueL'analyse du risque et le choix des investissementsLa gestion du fonds de roulementLa gestion de l'encaisse et des placements temporairesLa gestion des comptes clients et des stocksLe financement à court termeLa planification financière

Dark Pools is a practical text dealing with the increasingly important topic of dark pools, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading and liquidity. It discusses the development of the equity trading marketplace over the past two decades and how dark pools may evolve in a post-financial crisis world.

Revised and updated guide to some of the most important issues in the capital markets today, with an emphasis on fixed-income instruments. Fundamental concepts in equity market analysis, foreign exchange and money markets are also covered to provide a comprehensive overview. Analysis and valuation techniques are given for practical application.

This text explores the vexing problem of housing exclusion and the related financial fallout, which has come into sharp relief since the onset of the housing-led global credit crisis. The book looks at the dimensions of affordable housing finance, compares current policy approaches in the US, UK and Australia, and works towards solutions.

This book is a revised and updated guide to some of the most important issues in the capital markets today, with an emphasis on fixed-income instruments such as index-linked bonds, asset backed securities, mortgage backed securities and related products such as credit derivatives. However, fundamental concepts in equity market analysis, foreign exchange and money markets are also covered to provide a comprehensive overview. The focus is on analysis and valuation techniques, presented for the purposes of practical application. The book includes an accompanying CD-ROM with RATE software, designed to introduce readers to yield curve modelling. It also includes calculators for vanilla interest rate swaps and caps.

Text 4. Umschlagseite: Obwohl der Zusammenhang zwischen der Nutzung von Controllinginformationen, dem Lernen von Geschäftsführern bzw. Vorständen und dem Unternehmenserfolg in der Literatur häufig postuliert wird, liegen bislang nur wenige Untersuchungen vor, die sich mit diesem Thema beschäftigen. Daniel Steiners entwickelt eine umfassende Typologie der Nutzung von Controllinginformationen und untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen den verschiedenen Arten ihrer Nutzung durch Geschäftsführer bzw. Vorstände, dem Lernen dieses Personenkreises und dem Unternehmenserfolg. Auf der Basis einer umfangreichen empirischen Erhebung überprüft der Autor seine Hypothesen mit Hilfe des LISREL-Ansatzes der Kausalanalyse auf ihre praktische Relevanz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass ein positiver Zusammenhang besteht, dass aber verschiedene Arten der Nutzung von Controllinginformationen sich unterschiedlich auf verschiedene Arten des Lernens bei Geschäftsführern und auf den Unternehmenserfolg auswirken.