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Does accounting treatment of share-based payments impact performance measures for banks?

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:39 authored by Alaa Alhaj Ismail, Sami AdwanSami Adwan, John Stittle
This paper identifies, evaluates and analyses the resulting impact of mandatory expensing of share-based compensation (SBC) under IFRS2/FASB123R on a set of widely used performance measures in the EU and US banking industry. The paper shows that the accounting treatment of SBC schemes, following the mandatory adoption of IFRS2/FAS123R, has a statistically significant negative impact on the selected performance measures over the period 2004–11. The impact also seems to be material, yet modest, for US banks and only for large and high-growth EU banks, indicating that earlier public concerns and criticisms of the implementation of IFRS2/FAS123R are largely unsubstantiated. The findings also show that banks continue to use SBC, but there is a reduction, albeit insignificant, in the recognised SBC expense over the period 2009–11. That is, earlier public concerns that firms would curtail employing SBC in their employees’ compensation schemes to avoid the effect of SBC expense recognition on their financial ratios came to light after the first option life-cycle in the post-adoption period was over. The findings also show a marked movement towards using cash-settled-based payments, possibly due to their manipulative accounting treatment, a potentially interesting issue for related accounting research and accounting standard setters.

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  • Published

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Journal

Australian Accounting Review

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1035-6908

Publisher

Wiley

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  • Accounting and Finance Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-03-27

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-07-05

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-08-15

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