There are two approaches which investors can exercise when using accounting information are commonly discussed, either to the use of financial reporting to value the company or the use of financial reporting to assess the management's stewardship of the company. Despite the fact that US GAAP, IFRS, and UK GAAP are all market oriented sets of accounting standards, both FASB and IASB are more inc...

Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected]/ [email protected] Tel: +94-777-238-282(Mobile)/ +9421222-7519 (office) The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence concerning value relevance of accounting information such as Earning per Share (EPS), Net Asset...

Applying both the price-levels model and the lagged-price-deflated returns model, we investigated the incremental value relevance of the reconciliation of accounts from the Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) to the International Accounting Standards (IAS) by those Chinese listed companies that have simultaneously issued A-shares and B-shares. In addition, we examined the usefulness of accountin...