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Financial Accounting Theory Fifth Edition William R. Scott

Financial Accounting Theory Fifth Edition William R. Scott. Purpose: To create an awareness and understanding of the financial reporting environment in a market economy. Chapter 1 Introduction. 1.2 Some Historical Perspective. Early development

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Financial Accounting Theory Fifth Edition William R. Scott

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  1. Financial Accounting TheoryFifth EditionWilliam R. Scott Purpose: To create an awareness and understanding of the financial reporting environment in a market economy

  2. Chapter 1Introduction

  3. 1.2 Some Historical Perspective • Early development • Great depression of 1930s reinforced historical cost accounting • Alternatives to historical cost • Cash basis accounting • Current value accounting • Value-in-use • Fair value (exit price) • Mixed measurement model

  4. 1.2 Financial Reporting Horror Stories • Enron • WorldCom • Effects on financial reporting • Sarbanes-Oxley Act • More conservative accounting?

  5. 1.3 Ethical Behaviour by Accountants/Auditors • Was accountant/auditor behaviour leading up to Enron & WorldCom reporting disasters ethical? • Serve the client or serve society? • Why would you behave ethically in similar circumstances? • Ethical principles to do the right thing? • Yours and the profession’s long run interests? • Note each reason produces similar behaviour • But mindset differs

  6. 1.6 Role of Information in a Market Economy • To improve operation of capital markets • Adverse selection problem • To improve operation of managerial labour markets • Moral hazard problem • Both roles crucial • Results of Enron collapse show importance • Recession in U.S. economy, 2001 • Increased regulation (SOX)

  7. 1.6 Role of Financial Reporting in a Market Economy • Control adverse selection • Convert inside information into outside • Supply useful information to investors • Control moral hazard • Control manager shirking • Improve corporate governance

  8. 1.7 The Fundamental Problem Of Financial Accounting Theory • The best measure of net income to control adverse selection not the same as the best measure to motivate manager performance • Investors want information about future firm performance • Current value accounting? • Good corporate governance requires that managers “work hard” • Do historical cost accounting, conservatism better reflect manager effort?

  9. 1.8 Role of Standard Setting • Is standard setting needed? • Market forces motivate firms to produce information • But market forces subject to failure • Adverse selection • Moral hazard • Regulation steps in to try to correct market failures • Regulation is costly • Continued

  10. 1.8 Role of Standard Setting (continued) • Standard setting mediates between conflicting interests of investors and managers • Investors want lots of useful information • Managers may object to releasing all the information that investors desire

  11. 1.9.5 Ways to Mediate Between Conflicting Interests • Due process in standard setting • Representation of diverse constituencies • Super-majority voting • Exposure drafts

  12. 1.9.5 Structure of Standard Setting Bodies • IASB • International standards • FASB • United States standards • AcSB • Canadian standards • Securities commissions • Role in enforcing firms to follow standards • May set standards themselves • Why do they delegate most standard setting?

  13. Theories Relevant to Financial Accounting • The rational investor • A model of how an investor may use new information to revise beliefs about future firm performance • Rationality holds on average, not necessarily for each individual • Efficient securities markets • Share prices fully reflect all publicly available information • Efficiency is relative to a stock of information • Role of financial reporting in improving/expanding the stock of information • Continued

  14. Theories Relevant to Financial Accounting (continued) • Behavioural theories • Investors do not use all the information in financial statements → securities markets not fully efficient • Agency theory • Efficient contracts to motivate manager performance and achieve good corporate governance

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