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Record W2264985918

Fudged accounting theory, Evidence from the UK

2003· article· en· W2264985918 on OpenAlexaff
Audra Ong

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Management and Research · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGoodwillAccountingPositive accountingCapitalizationBusinessAccounting standardBook valueVariety (cybernetics)Management accountingAccounting information systemMark-to-market accountingEconomicsFlexibility (engineering)Financial accountingManagementMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The topic of accounting for intangible assets such as trade marks, patents, brands and goodwill has been highly controversial in the accounting profession for many years. Furthermore, the accounting treatment of brands has importance for marketers. Until recently, the flexibility within the regulations allowed companies to use a variety of accounting treatment and this led to the generation of fudged accounting theory (Murphy, 1990). This empirical study based on recent accounting regulatory changes for intangible assets in the UK examines the validity of the theory in the food, drink and media industries. The analysis demonstrates that companies are moving from the capitalization of brands to that of goodwill. Policies in respect of amortisation are, however, more divergent and fudged accounting theory still applies. The UK approach is being regarded with interest by the International Accounting Standards Committee and fudged accounting theory may be generalisable in different accounting regimes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.043
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.339

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.043
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0060.008
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations4
Published2003
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