The monetary unit assumption of financial accounting assumes a stable currency (i.e., constant purchasing power over time). Yet, even during periods of low inflation or deflation, nominal financial statements violate this assumption. I posit that, while the effects of inflation are not recognized in nominal statements, such effects may have economic consequences. I find that unrecognized inflat...

Financial assets are generally chosen for encapsulating wealth effects in empirical work on aggregate consumption, but there is growing interest in tangible wealth, notably housing, as a potential determinant. We estimate consumption functions for the G-5 on a Pooled Mean Group panel basis, which encapsulate roles for both tangible and financial wealth. Results suggest that tangible wealth play...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of capital structure decisions on firms’ profitability in manufacturing sector in Turkey. The data used in this research corresponds to the financial statements of manufacturing companies collected between 2005 and 2011. Regression analysis was employed by using financial ratios obtained from financial statements of firms within the scope of a...

In recent years, a large number of countries have made reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mandatory. The capital-market effects of this change have been extensively studied, but their sources are not yet well understood and still heavily debated. This paper presents new evidence that aims to distinguish between several potential explanations for these capital-mar...

In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases the equity risk premium, and reduces welfare. Regulatory measures, such as constraints on stock positions, borrowing constraints, and the Tobin tax have similar effects on fina...

Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the degree to which banks manage the information that they disclose to the public and regulators? We find that relaxing regulatory impediments to competition reduced discretionary loan loss provisioning and the frequency with which banks restate financial statements. The results suggest that compet...

The public sector has undergone a series of reforms, reforms that have had a great influence on the development of public accounting and reporting system. We consider that the most important issue that has resulted from these reforms refers to the introduction of consolidated financial reporting in the public sector. The public sector consolidated financial statements represent a challenging to...

M ost healthcare institutions have now presented at least one year's audited inancial information using the format and definitions required by the new audit and accounting guide, Audits of Providers of Health Care Services (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA], NewYork City, 1990). The guide requires facilities to report charity care and allows them to report community ser...

We study the influence of financial frictions on the cyclical dynamics of producer prices. Empirical results show that the response of industry-specific PPI inflation to changes in aggregate financial conditions depends importantly on differences in the ease of access to external finance across industries: In industries in which firms face a high likelihood of financial constraints, inflation i...

This paper examines the readability of the chairman’s narratives, as determined by the Flesch score, of a Malaysian public listed company’s corporate reports from 1962 to 2009. It partially supports earlier studies which demonstrated that corporate reports were difficult to read, and had shown very negligible decrease in difficulty over time. Net profit to sales and readability was significantl...