Accounting for Past and Future Actions
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چکیده
Explicitly or not, an accounting measurement system must choose whether or not to exclude, from its scope consideration, any economic activities yet to occur. We provide a model where such a scope distinction between measurements has both accounting and economic meanings. In particular, we represent measurements limited to past actions with an assets-in-place (AIP) accounting measurement in contrast to a Full accounting measurement which represents measurements anticipating future actions. We then embed the accounting model into a rms accounting choice problem in which the rm rationally recognizes that its accounting choice may change its own investment e¢ ciency as well as the risk premium in its share price. We analyze how the optimal choice between the two measurements depends on the investment environment (e.g., growth opportunities) as well as the inherent measurement characteristics (e.g., measurement noise). We show the optimal choice can be subtle if the rms investment is endogenous to the accounting regime itself. For example, Full accounting may be preferable even if the noise in Full accounting is high in some cases. Similarly, AIP accounting may become preferable even if the rm-growth may be sizeable. The underlying driving force is that the endogenous investment makes endogenous the total uncertainty of the rms cash ows as well as the resolution of the uncertainty due to the accounting report. This indirect e¤ect of accounting measurement (i.e., the real e¤ectvia the investment channel) changes the trade-o¤ the rm faces in choosing a preferred accounting measurement.
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