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- Title
Management's Preferences for FASB Statement No. 52: Predictive Ability Results.
- Authors
Griffin, Paul A.
- Abstract
Research attempting to explain or predict preferences with respect to accounting rules is a relatively new branch of accounting research. Factors affecting a manager's welfare (e.g., political costs) are identified and then evaluated empirically to ascertain whether such factors are helpful in predicting a manager's decision to respond to proposed changes in the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB's) rules on foreign currency translation. FASB Statement No. 52, issued December 1981, replaced FASB Statement No. 8 and required U.S. multinational corporations to switch from the "temporal" to the "current rate" method of translating foreign currency financial statements into U.S. dollars. The models use current economic data as well as information about managers' responses to earlier changes in the rules for translating foreign currency statements. While the models adequately describe management's behaviour, and hence are consistent with earlier research, their predictive ability is only a modest improvement over naive prediction rules.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTING standards; ACCOUNTING methods; BUSINESS; RESEARCH; EXECUTIVES
- Publication
Abacus, 1983, Vol 19, Issue 2, p130
- ISSN
0001-3072
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6281.1983.tb00244.x