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Financial Reporting for Financial Instruments

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  • Ryan, Stephen G.

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Financial Reporting for Financial Instruments provides an integrated examination of the four most active areas of empirical accounting research on financial reporting for financial instruments: (1) banks' loan loss accruals, (2) fair value versus amortized cost accounting measurement bases, (3) balance sheet presentation of risk-concentrated financial instruments such as derivatives and retained residual securities in securitizations, and (4) risk disclosures. The author explains conceptual and practical issues regarding financial reporting for financial instruments, summarizes extant empirical research in these areas, and indicates future empirical research possibilities. He emphasizes that empirical researchers should strive to incorporate four ideas into their research topics and designs: (1) financial instruments exhibit identifiable heterogeneity in their contractual features and risks; (2) at a first approximation, financial institutions are portfolios of interrelated financial instruments; (3) the markets in which financial instruments trade and the institutional settings in which financial institutions operate affect their value and risks; and (4) accounting and disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imperfectly capture the first three ideas.

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  • Ryan, Stephen G., 2012. "Financial Reporting for Financial Instruments," Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting, now publishers, vol. 6(3–4), pages 187-354, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:now:fntacc:1400000021
    DOI: 10.1561/1400000021
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    1. Peter Easton & Xiao-Jun Zhang, 2017. "Mixing fair-value and historical-cost accounting: predictable other-comprehensive-income and mispricing of bank stocks," Review of Accounting Studies, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 1732-1760, December.
    2. Chen, Qi & Goldstein, Itay & Huang, Zeqiong & Vashishtha, Rahul, 2022. "Bank transparency and deposit flows," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(2), pages 475-501.
    3. Basu, Sudipta & Vitanza, Justin & Wang, Wei, 2020. "Asymmetric loan loss provision models," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(2).
    4. Calomiris, Charles W. & Nissim, Doron, 2014. "Crisis-related shifts in the market valuation of banking activities," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 23(3), pages 400-435.
    5. Xiaomeng Chen & Andreas Hellmann & Safdar R. Mithani, 2020. "The Effect of Fair Value Adjustments on Dividend Policy Under Mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards Adoption: Australian Evidence," Abacus, Accounting Foundation, University of Sydney, vol. 56(3), pages 436-453, September.
    6. Gaoqing Zhang, 2023. "Models of Accounting Disclosure by Banking Institutions," Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting, now publishers, vol. 17(3-4), pages 173-300, May.
    7. Hoang, Daniel & Ruckes, Martin, 2017. "Corporate risk management, product market competition, and disclosure," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 107-121.
    8. Zhi Dong & Tien Foo Sing, 2021. "Do Investors Overreact for Property and Financial Service Sectors?," Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research, vol. 20(1), pages 79-123, April.
    9. Emre Kilic & Gerald Lobo & Tharindra Ranasinghe & Lin Yi, 2021. "Strategic usefulness of ignorance: evidence from income smoothing via retained interest of securitized loans," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 245-272, January.
    10. Sticca, Ralph Melles & Nakao, Silvio Hiroshi, 2019. "Hedge accounting choice as exchange loss avoidance under financial crisis: Evidence from Brazil," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
    11. Donohoe, Michael P., 2015. "The economic effects of financial derivatives on corporate tax avoidance," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 59(1), pages 1-24.

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    Keywords

    Financial reporting; Financial institutions; Financial instruments; GAAP;
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    JEL classification:

    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies

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