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L'Information Comptable En Juste Valeur : Quelle Utilite Pour Les Investisseurs ?

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  • Badreddine Hamdi

    (ERMMES - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche Méditerranéennes en Management des Entreprises - UTLN - Université de Toulon)

  • Houda Elabidi

    (ERMMES - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche Méditerranéennes en Management des Entreprises - UTLN - Université de Toulon)

Abstract

The primary purpose of the application of fair value accounting is to provide financial informations that investors find most helpful in their decision making. To help better understand this issue, this research project examines the decision usefulness of fair value information to investors. Using a survey of French financial analysts, this study investigates the principal qualitative characteristics of fair value information. We examine especially whether this information is relevant, reliable and comparable. The results document that financial analysts consider fair value as an approach able to reflect the current economic reality of the firm and to ameliorate the assessment of financial risk by investors. However, most respondents agree that fair value accounting could impair reliability and comparability of financial statements.

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  • Badreddine Hamdi & Houda Elabidi, 2009. "L'Information Comptable En Juste Valeur : Quelle Utilite Pour Les Investisseurs ?," Post-Print halshs-00459351, HAL.
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