Market pricing of banks’ fair value assets reported under SFAS 157 since the 2008 financial crisis

SFAS 157 & the Market’s Assessment of Fair Valued Assets: An Examination of Fair Valued Assets Held by Financial Firms During and Following the Financial Crisis

Introduced in late-2007, SFAS 157 redefined existing accounting standards concerning fair value accounting and significantly impacted financial reporting for financial institutions. Prior studies, using larger samples of financial firms, have concluded that Level 3 fair values (the most opaque and subjective fair values) were heavily discounted by the market. Consistent with prior studies, this...

Fair Value Accounting and the Financial Crisis: Messenger or Contributor

Did fair value accounting play a role in the current financial crisis? This appendix explores the issue. Fair value accounting implies that assets and liabilities get measured and reflected on a firm`s financial statements at their market value, or close substitutes. Extensive academic research done over the past 20 years shows that financial statements that reflect the market values of assets ...

MicroLevel Barriers to Using Fair Value in Financial Reporting of Iranian Banks

Changing the measurement basis from historical to fair value is one of the most important developments in IFRS. The wide dimensions of fair value measurement in the banking industry, requires carefull examination of the obstacles and effects of using this basis before implementation. in addition to the characteristics of the macroeconomic environment, the different banking business framework an...

Comparative Study of Capital Assets Pricing Models (CAPM) with Extrapolating Capital Assets Pricing Models (X-CAPM) in Tehran Exchange Market

The main objective of this article is to present a comparative study of capital assets pricing models (CAPM) with extrapolating capital assets pricing models (X-CAPM) of companies admitted in Tehran Exchange Market which is accomplished for the first time by investigators of this research in Iran. Accordingly, the statistical population under study of this research includes all companies admitt...

Financial market crisis and financial market channel