Measuring the impact of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) to financial information of portuguese companies



Document title: Measuring the impact of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) to financial information of portuguese companies
Journal: Revista universo contabil
Database: CLASE
System number: 000313112
ISSN: 1809-3337
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidade dos Acores, Departamento de Economia e Gestao, Ponta Delgada, Azores. Portugal
Year:
Season: Ene-Mar
Volumen: 5
Number: 1
Pages: 129-144
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico
English abstract To increase efficiency of the European finance market, the European Union (EU) recently forced all public companies to publish their financial disclosures with the support of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), emanated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), beginning January 1, 2005. In this paper, we measure the impact of the application of IFRS to financial information of Portuguese public companies belonging to the Eurolist by Euronext Lisbon. The results show that the Balance Sheet and Income Statement structures of the firms studied suffered relevant accounting conversions in the process of compliance. Nevertheless, we did not find a clear pattern for the accounting variations. IFRS implementation conditioned the measure made to the performance and the financial position of the business companies in Portugal
Portuguese abstract Com o propósito de aumentar a eficiência do mercado financeiro Europeu, a União Europeia obrigou as empresas cotadas nos mercados comunitários regulamentados a divulgar, a partir de 2005, as demonstrações financeiras consolidadas com base nas Normas Internacionais de Contabilidade (NIC), emanadas do International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Este estudo pretende avaliar o impacto produzido pela adopção das NIC na informação financeira das empresas Portuguesas cotadas no mercado de cotações oficial, circunscrevendo-se ao Eurolist by Euronext Lisbon. Os resultados demonstraram que a estrutura do balanço e demonstração dos resultados sofreu uma conversão contabilística relevante. Contudo, verificou-se que as variações contabilísticas ocorridas não revelaram um padrão, sendo excessivamente inconstantes. A implementação das NIC condicionou a avaliação efectuada ao desempenho e à posição financeira das empresas em Portugal
Disciplines: Administración y contaduría
Keyword: Contaduría,
Empresas,
Información financiera,
Contabilidad,
Armonización contable,
Normas internacionales de información financiera (NIIF),
Normas internacionales de contabilidad,
Demostraciones financieras,
Unión Europea,
Portugal
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