On Cost Tradeoffs Between Conservative and Market Value Accounting
We identify a cost tradeoff relevant to the comparison of alternative accounting regimes. We compare equilibrium deadweight losses, due to transacting and auditing, across the historical cost, lower-of-cost-or-market, and market value regimes. We provide conditions for each of the regimes to dominat...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
1997
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018314526438 |
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