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‘Shopping Around’ for Accounting Practices: The Financial Statement Presentation of French Groups

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  • Yuan Ding
  • Hervé Stolowy
  • Michel Tenenhaus

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This article illustrates the progressive move away from traditional accounting practices through a study of the presentation of financial statements. Based on a sample of one hundred large French industrial and commercial groups over a ten‐year period, and applying a logistic regression method, our survey confirms a trend among French companies, which are increasingly turning their backs on traditional national practices as regards the balance sheet format, the income statement format, the voluntary disclosure of a statement of changes in shareholders’ equity and the cash flow statement format. This move towards ‘alternative’ practices is made possible by the flexibility of French regulation, and can probably be explained by the desire of French firms to attract more investment on international capital markets. However, this trend shows no signs of a clear orientation towards any particular accounting model (IAS, U.S. or U.K.). The behaviour of the French firms observed in our study can be considered as a kind of ‘shopping around’ for accounting practices.

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  • Yuan Ding & Hervé Stolowy & Michel Tenenhaus, 2003. "‘Shopping Around’ for Accounting Practices: The Financial Statement Presentation of French Groups," Abacus, Accounting Foundation, University of Sydney, vol. 39(1), pages 42-65, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:abacus:v:39:y:2003:i:1:p:42-65
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6281.00119
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    2. Jiří Strouhal & Marie Paseková & Libuše Müllerová, 2011. "Comparative Analysis of Czech Accounting with International Regulation from SMEs Perspective," European Financial and Accounting Journal, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2011(1), pages 39-59.
    3. Halaoua, Sameh & Hamdi, Badreddine & Mejri, Tarek, 2017. "Earnings management to exceed thresholds in continental and Anglo-Saxon accounting models: The British and French cases," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 39(PA), pages 513-529.
    4. Elena Barbu, 2006. "L'application des normes IAS/IFRS par les entreprises françaises cotées : une décision sous influence institutionnelle," Post-Print halshs-00548117, HAL.

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