August 2019

The informative value of taxes: The case of temporal differences in tax accounting

This work is an overview of empirical research of the last decades in the field of deferred taxes, focusing on their value relevance when making business, investment and financing decisions. The majority of research is derived from the Anglo-Saxon area, where the USA Accounting Standard SFAS No.109 is implemented. According to the relevant literature, Deferred Tax Assets, in contrast to Deferred Tax Liabilities, are...

Author(s): Evangelos Chytis