MOTIVES FOR ASSET REVALUATION POLICY CHOICE IN CROATIA

• Main Authors: Željana Aljinović Barać, Slavko Šodan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Croatian Operational Research Society 2011-02-01
• Series: Croatian Operational Research Review
• Subjects: revaluation policy choice; fair value accounting; financial leverage; financial reporting
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=142174

The aim of this paper is to research managers’ motives of accounting policy choice for long-term nonfinancial assets. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) allow managers to choose between cost and revaluation model for measurement after recognition. The assumption is that manager’s decision is opportunistic so they use the revaluation model as a device to improve perceptive borrowing capacity of a company, and consequently, to reduce debt cost. Prior studies were mainly conducted in developed, marketoriented economies, unlike Croatia. The contribution of this paper is the research of motives and determinants of asset revaluation policy choice in bank-oriented economies with inactive markets. Furthermore, multivariate logistic regression was not used as a research method in this field of accounting in transition and emerging economies till now. Empirical evidence is provided through the sample of Croatian listed companies and the results show that large, profitable companies with low liquidity ratio, low cash flow ratio and increasing debt are more likely to perform upward revaluation.