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- Title
- A Case based analysis of impairment decision making
- Related
- Journal of law and financial management, Vol. 7, No. 2, p.36-42
- Related
- http://www.mgsm.edu.au/wps/wcm/connect/Internet/Root/research/publications/journals/jlfm/2008-dec/
- Publisher
- Macquarie Graduate School of Management
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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180100 Law
150200 Banking, Finance and Investment
- Author/Creator
- Finch, Nigel
- Description
- The adoption of IFRS based reporting in Australia for all reporting periods commencing 1 January 2005 onwards resulted in substantial variations to prior accepted reporting practices. One area in which change was particularly profound was in the shift to an impairment testing based regime for goodwill accounting and reporting. The IFRS framework requires substantially greater levels of disclosure about the assumptions brought to bear in sustaining a valuation for goodwill. At face value, this should have resulted in improved transparency and the availability of higher levels of decision useful information. However, a review of disclosures relating to goodwill and its impairment by a sample of large Australian reporting entities in the first year after the transition to IFRS suggests substantial room for improvement. In particular, required disclosures were frequently omitted, or suggested that the technical requirements of the IFRS goodwill impairment testing process had not been complied with. Consequently, it is concluded that at present, it is in exceptional cases rather than a matter of generality that IFRS compliant disclosures sustain improved insights and support better decision making by financial statement users.
- Description
- 7 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 180100 Law
- Subject Keyword
- 150200 Banking, Finance and Investment
- Subject Keyword
- goodwill
- Subject Keyword
- financial reporting
- Subject Keyword
- creative accounting
- Subject Keyword
- impairment accounting
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Resource Type
- Journal Of Law And Financial Management Collection
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Graduate School of Management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/79060
- Identifier
- ISSN:1446-6899
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009000748
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Publisher version archived with the permission of the publisher Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. This archived copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to use this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
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