• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.21 no.46
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• pp.167-172
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• 1998

Under serious inflation, there has been a considerable gap between book value and market value. To improve this gap, asset revaluation has been implementing in Korea. This paper investigates firms' motives of asset revaluation. The result of empirical tests may be summarized as follow : The corporations listed in Korea Stock Exchange revaluate their assets in order to borrow money owing to good financial structures. Based on this result, the asset revaluation law would be necessary to review.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.22 no.52
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• pp.221-228
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• 1999

The purpose of this paper is to see whether the improvement on the financial structure through the asset revaluation is temporary or not. The financial structure of the companies which revalue the asset was improved for the revaluating year, but the financial structure worsened in the next year. Therefore, I can infer that the asset revaluation is carried out to supply their capital by enterprises.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.1-22
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• 2010

There have been arguments in Korea that fair value accounting system improves quality of accounting information through the asset revaluation. These arguments are based on the fact that investors prefer fair value to cost value information. Others argue that cost principles may offer more proper information to the investors because financial statements applied the cost principles are more objective and thus more reliable. Prior researches focused mainly on the motives of asset revaluation but I examined the effects of the tangible asset revaluation on the stock prices. The empirical findings indicate that : (1) the gains on the tangible asset revaluation are positively correlated with the stock prices; (2) the net book values applied the cost principles explain stock prices better than the net book values applied fair values. My findings suggest that the gains on the tangible asset revaluation constitute a part of the firms' values but the accounting informations measured fair value are not always useful to the investors in the capital market.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.293-304
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• 2020

The study reveals the extent of changes in selective financial numbers caused by fixed asset revaluation (FAR) and explores whether there was a management motive for playing the financial numbers game through using the FAR model. The data set consists of a sample of 142 listed companies purposively selected from 13 industries. The study found a significant impact of FAR on the net asset value (NAV), fixed asset intensity (FAI), and debt-to-equity ratio (DER). These findings are supported by the political cost and the debt covenant hypotheses. The study also observed a high growth of fixed assets by 9.5% to 14,603.8% resulting from FAR. More revealing is that FAR increased NAV in revaluer companies by an average of 427.20% as compared to 6.86% in non-revaluer companies. Even some companies with negative NAV took resort on FAR to show positive NAV. Besides, revaluer companies managed to reduce their DER by 70.45% as opposed to an increase of 8.45% in non-revaluer companies. Hence, the study concludes that most of the publicly-listed companies are involved in financial numbers game by the use of the FAR model. To build confidence among investors, companies should practice FAR rightly and disclose related information to help reduce information asymmetry.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.163-173
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• 2018

This study examined the difference between the information asymmetry in pre- and post K-IFRS adoption used each samples. Efficient market assumption suggests that capital markets already have recognized real value of PP&E and applied those values for estimating the item, in which case PP&E revaluation is not additional information in the capital market but simply an activity to makes costs. This study examined whether the information asymmetry had reduced significantly after adopting K-IFRS or not, verified each period samples those are pre- and post-adopting the asset revaluation since it could have been adopted in advance from 2008. As study results, I confirmed PP&E revaluation affected to reduce the information asymmetry in pre- adopting K-IFRS, but not in post- adopting K-IFRS. These results could be one of proofs which are supported that capital market have been judging PP&E revaluation as the window dressing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.334-350
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• 2010

This study aims at investigating the possible effects on the tax accounting practices stemming from adopting the IFRS in financial reporting process. It also seeks for policy implications to help alleviate practical conflicts likely to arise from the inconsistencies between the existing tax law and the tax related IFRS provisions. The results of the survey analysis are summarized as follows: firstly, majority opinion is opposed to the fair value based revaluation of property assets as well as the application of immediate recognition of foreign currency translation gains/losses. It favors the existing provision on asset securitization which adopts sales transaction view. Secondly, most of the respondents oppose the proposed amendments which allows dual classification of lease contracts on the ground. Third, functional currency appears acceptable on a conceptual level, even though a deep concern is expressed regarding the practical feasibility of computing taxable income using financial statements translated on the basis of functional currency on a practical viewpoint. Fourth, many respondents support the existing convention of recognizing depreciation expenses for taxation purposes and are in favor of the separation of accounting and tax books on a long-term basis. Fifth, the majority opinion approves the maintenance of existing tax reconciliation system and the recognition of expenses related with the doubtful accounts on reporting basis. Finally, a concern is raised with regard to the added burden of practical job loads needed to comply with the proposed amendments.