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Financial Management
USGAAP and IFRS Standards
Aldo Levy, Faten Ben Bouheni, Chantal Ammi
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USGAAP and IFRS Standards
Aldo Levy, Faten Ben Bouheni, Chantal Ammi
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This book combines the fundamentals of finance with relevance and effectiveness. It allows for the practice of this subject and covers all the programs of business schools, universities' finance courses, and engineering schools. This book is a relevant tool to acquire all the knowledge required for examination success and the achievement of proven practical competences.
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Value: IFRS vs. US GAAP
āā¦ value does not wait for the number of years ā¦ā wrote P. Corneille. This may be true for humans but certainly not for capital. It is of course not equivalent to have a sum of money now or later. If we invest this amount, we will not hold it until maturity and we lose the opportunity to invest it elsewhere. This time lost opportunity has a cost. The latter, which would make immediate or later provision equivalent, is called interest. The legal or normal person who needs money and the person who wants to make capital available will agree on the price, that is to say, the equivalent interest rate. Therefore, value and time (1.1) are functions of the interest rate. As in the future, there is no certainty that the expected value carries a share of risk (1.2) that is paid in proportion to the risk incurred, so there will be a risk premium to pay. The better the investor is informed about the readability of his investment horizon, the better he can adjust the requested rate. Therefore, the value and the information (1.3) available are correlated. Thus, the interaction between value, time, risk and available information is discussed in this chapter.
1.1. Value and the time1
āIs it worth the costā ā is this common sense often referred to? For financial investment, this cost of money is an expected profit, called interest rate.
1.1.1. Cost of money, interest rate (nominal and real)
The rates fixed for financial transactions are annual. If the latter takes place on a spaceātime less than the year (months, quarters, semesters), the rate is pro-rated at the annual rate.
EXAMPLE.ā An annual rate of 5% is equivalent to the following rates:
- ā monthly: 5% / 12 = 0.42%;
- ā quarterly: 5% / 4 = 1.25%;
- ā half-yearly: 5% / 2 = 2.5%.
The economic agents can choose a fixed rate (rate unchanged until the end of the transaction) or a variable rate (rate revised according to a reference rate based on the money or bond market).
The real interest rate corresponds to the nominal interest rate adjusted for inflation. Let:
where:
- ā n: nominal rate
- ā r: real rate
- ā i: inflation rate
EXAMPLE.ā The one-year inflation rate is 1.5%. What is the real interest rate for a paid investment at 4%?
The non-disposition of ann...