Essays about: "Defined benefit pension plans"
Found 4 essays containing the words Defined benefit pension plans.
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1. Defined Benefit Obligations - A Quantitative Study of the Managerial Opportunism within the Accounting of Defined Benefit Obligations
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 the rates on corporate- and government bonds began to diverge (Runesson et al., 2018). The increased differences in bond rates had a large effect on the Swedish firms. READ MORE
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2. Is transparent accounting information more value relevant? : A Scandinavian study on the removal of the corridor method.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper examines if the value relevance of pension accounting information has increased after the implementation of IAS 19R and its removal of the corridor method, requiring all firms with defined benefit pension plans utilising the corridor method to recognise previously disclosed actuarial gains and losses in the financial statement. With a sample of 185 Scandinavian firms and 370 firm-year observations for 2012 (disclosure year) and 2013 (recognition year) we perform two separate stock-price regressions (one recognition model and one recognition versus disclosure model). READ MORE
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3. Earnings Management Under IAS 19 –An analysis of the extent to which entities alter assumptions when accounting for employee benefits before and after the amendment of IAS 19
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The amendments to the existing standard IAS 19 published in 2011 changed the requirements concerning the reporting of defined benefit plans for public entities applying IFRS, effective as of January 2013 with full retrospective application. The revised standard from 2011 prevent earnings management through the deferring and concealment of some actuarial gains and losses, but still leave scope for professional assumptions concerning the determination of the discount rate. READ MORE
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4. The emergence of an accounting practice –An analysis of how the changes in interpretation and application of IAS 19 paragraph 83 resulted in a new accounting practice in Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Background and discussion: IAS 19 paragraph 83 addresses the estimation of the discount rate used for determination of the present value of defined benefit pension plans. Until 2010, the paragraph was consistently applied within Sweden, when all companies agreed that the yield on government bonds should be used as a reference for the discount rate. READ MORE
