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- Accounting information is considered value relevant if it is correlated with market value of a company.
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Understanding the evolution in value relevance of accounting information provides insights into whether accounting is relevant in the new economy. This is not a given because accounting developed when the US economy largely comprised industrial firms and has not changed fundamentally since then.
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- Predictive Value
- Feedback Value
- Timeliness
FASB also identified three main characteristics of relevant accounting information: predictive value, feedback, and timeliness. Financial information must have all of these characteristics in order to be considered relevant.
Predictive value refers to the fact that quality financial information can be used to base predictions, forecasts, and projections on. Financial annalists and investors can use past financial statements to chart performance trends and make predictions about future performance and profitability.
Quality information has a feedback value when it can confirm or correct previous expectations. In other words, users can examine financial information and confirm or adjust their predictions made on previous performance trends. Based on this feedback, users can make future decisions.
Timeliness is one of the most important factors in relevant information. Out of date information does not do investors or creditors any good when they are trying to make current and future decisions. Financial reporting must be timely and current in order to be used by investors and creditors.
May 29, 2019 · The article covered 90 empirical research papers published between 1993 and 2016 from various countries across continents, and the majority of them concluded that accounting information is relevant across continents before and after IFRS adoption, while few hold the opposite view.
- Meena Bhatia, Mwila J. Mulenga
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Feb 21, 2022 · IFRS is a new set of accounting standards that strives to improve the readability and understandability of financial statements across the globe. IFRS encourages increase in disclosure of financial information and the fair value recognition of financial statement items.
Jan 1, 2023 · We address how value relevance of accounting information evolved as the new economy developed. Prior research concludes that accounting information—primarily earnings—has lost relevance. We consider more accounting items and find no decline in combined value relevance from 1962 to 2018.
For accounting information to be relevant, it must possess: Confirmatory value – Provides information about past events. Predictive value – Provides predictive power regarding possible future events.
Nov 1, 2021 · We review three streams of the value relevance literature: (i) the value relevance of earnings and book values, (ii) the value relevance of other accounting information, and (iii) the role of economic conditions on the value relevance of accounting information.