financial reporting research – is it relevant to practice?
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Financial reporting research – is it relevant to practice?. Brian Singleton-Green Financial Reporting Workshop, Rome: 13-14 June 2013. Is FR research relevant to practice?. Obvious answers Obstacles The IASB’s new approach Four styles of standard setting The IASB, research and the future. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Brian Singleton-GreenFinancial Reporting Workshop, Rome: 13-14 June 2013
Financial reporting research – is it relevant to practice?
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Is FR research relevant to practice?
Obvious answersObstaclesThe IASB’s new approachFour styles of standard settingThe IASB, research and the future
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Is it relevant to practice? Obvious answers
No
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AAA membership
Year Practitioners Academics
1970 8,500 4,000
1979 5,500 5,500
2009 600 6,000
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Is it relevant to practice? Obvious answers
NoYes
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Practitioner concerns
What should I do? (practice)
What should we be required to do?
(policy)
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Corporate reporting questions
• Who uses corporate reporting?• What use do they make of it?• What other information do they use?• What are the effects of corporate reporting (effects ≠
uses)?• Eg, effects of different disclosures?• Effects of different forms of measurement?Answers will depend on context
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The corporate reporting debate
The standard setting debate
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Is it relevant to practice? Obvious answers
NoYesDepends
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Obstacles
• Incomprehensible• Disagreements• Normative conclusions• Perceived irrelevance
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AAA membership: what happened?
• Research changed• Practice changed
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The IASB’s new approach
Feedback Statement: Agenda Consultation 2011 (December 2012)
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… the IASB should establish, or facilitate the establishment of, a dedicated research capability to provide leadership in the thinking about financial reporting
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“Priority research projects”
• Emissions Trading Schemes• Business Combinations under Common Control• Discount Rates• Equity Method of Accounting• Intangible Assets; Extractive Activities; and Research &
Development Activities• Financial Instruments with the Characteristics of Equity• Foreign Currency Translation• Non-financial Liabilities (amendments to IAS 37)• Financial Reporting in High Inflationary Economies
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Four styles of standard setting
Codifying best practice
Implementing a theory
Doing what works
Doing what people want
Finding out what current practices are
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Finding out what works
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The IASB, research and the future
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IASB: motivations for change
• The financial crisis• Unsuccessful projects• The end of convergence
Credibility
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What the IASB means by “research”
• Academic research• Staff research• Work
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The IASB and research: the future
• More use of academic research• Will have to be positive results• Research is not a panacea• Change is reversible
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The long term
• Engage with the IASB• Engage with practitioners• Create forums for interaction
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Information for Better Markets
• Academic events• ICAEW lectures and conferences
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ICAEW lectures and conferences
• “International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): pros and cons”, Ray Ball, Accounting and Business Research (2006)
• Over 18,000 downloads from SSRN
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Information for Better Markets Conferences
• London, 16-17 December 2013• Reporting Financial Performance• Alfred Wagenhofer (Graz)• Charles Lee (Stanford)• Robert Libby (Cornell)• Steven Young (Lancaster)
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Information for Better Markets
• Academic events• ICAEW lectures and conferences• Reports
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The long term
• Engage with the IASB• Engage with practitioners• Create forums for interaction• Communication: clear, short and simple• Explain policy-relevance
Impact
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