Empirical goodwill research: Insights, issues, and implications for standard setting and future research

A Amel-Zadeh, M Glaum, T Sellhorn - European Accounting …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the determinants and decision usefulness of
goodwill reporting. We structure our discussion around five guiding questions that reflect …

The effect of mandatory IFRS adoption on conditional conservatism in Europe

P André, A Filip, L Paugam - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We study the effect of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. We capture conditional conservatism …

Using real activities to avoid goodwill impairment losses: Evidence and effect on future performance

A Filip, T Jeanjean, L Paugam - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We examine whether managers postpone the recognition of goodwill impairment by
manipulating cash flows and the consequences of such a strategy on future performance …

[PDF][PDF] An intangible-adjusted book-to-market ratio still predicts stock returns

H Park - Critical Finance Review, 2019 - cfr.ivo-welch.info
The book-to-market ratio has been widely used to explain the cross-sectional variation in
stock returns, but the explanatory power is weaker in recent decades than in the 1970s. I …

Managerial discretion to delay the recognition of goodwill impairment: The role of enforcement

A Filip, GJ Lobo, L Paugam - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Under International Financial Reporting Standards, managers can use two
approaches to increase the estimated fair value of goodwill in order to justify not recognizing …

Debiasing the measurement of conditional conservatism

M Badia, M Duro, F Penalva… - Journal of Accounting …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Basu's [“The Conservatism Principle and the Asymmetric Timeliness of
Earnings.” Journal of Accounting and Economics 24 (1997): 3–37] measurement of …

Intangible assets and the book‐to‐market effect

H Park - European Financial Management, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The book‐to‐market effect is well known but prior research does not analyze the impact of
goodwill and related transformations in accounting rules that may bring significant changes …

Warrants in the financial management decisions of innovative firms

H Park - Journal of Futures Markets, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intangible investments such as R&D are expensed rather than capitalized due to accounting
conservatism. Thus, firms with mostly intangible assets are subject to more constraints in …

Goodwill impairment after M&A: acquisition-level evidence

J Potepa, J Thomas - Journal of Financial Reporting, 2023 - publications.aaahq.org
To provide a fuller picture of compliance with ASC 350-20, we hand-collect data to track 893
large acquisitions across time. Our model, which links impairments to post-acquisition …

Reflections on M&A accounting from AOL's acquisition of Time Warner

PM Healy - Accounting and Business Research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In early 2000, AOL announced the acquisition of Time Warner for 162billion.Theacquisition,
oneofthelargestinhistory,generated 127 billion of goodwill. Yet after only a few years, the …