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| Author: | Kamp, B. |
| Title: | Fiscal year-end choice: determinants and dynamics |
| Journal: | International Journal of Accounting
2002 : VOL. 37:4, p. 421-427 |
| Index terms: | Accounting Finance Companies International |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The international diversity of firms' fiscal year-end is relatively unknown. However, this diversity has practical implications for both accounting research and business comparability. This study examines the backgrounds of the diversity. It is found that differences in tiny, supposedly unimportant details in national legislation on fiscal year-end have much stronger impact on fiscal year-end choice than the generally assumed cause of seasonality. In the last decade of international harmonization, only a few instances of fiscal year-end changes are found motivated by enhancing comparability. Worldwide, a weak drift towards December was found. |
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