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Fair Value Accounting and Managers' Hedging Decisions

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  • WEI CHEN
  • HUN‐TONG TAN
  • ELAINE YING WANG

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We conduct two experiments with experienced accountants to investigate how fair value accounting affects managers’ real economic decisions. In experiment 1, we find that participants are more likely to make suboptimal decisions (e.g., forgo economically sound hedging opportunities) when both the economic and fair value accounting impact information is presented than when only the economic impact information is presented, or when both the economic and historical cost accounting impact information is presented. This adverse effect of fair value accounting is more likely when the price volatility of the hedged asset is higher, which is a situation where, paradoxically, hedging is more beneficial. We find that the effect is mediated by participants’ relative considerations of economic factors versus accounting factors (e.g., earnings volatility). Experiment 2 shows that enhancing salience of economic information or separately presenting net income not from fair value remeasurements reduces the adverse effect of fair value accounting. Our findings are informative to standard setters in their debate on the efficacy of fair value accounting.

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  • Wei Chen & Hun‐Tong Tan & Elaine Ying Wang, 2013. "Fair Value Accounting and Managers' Hedging Decisions," Journal of Accounting Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(1), pages 67-103, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:joares:v:51:y:2013:i:1:p:67-103
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2012.00468.x
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