{"title":"The effect of accounting for high performing employee services as a right of use asset on the balance sheet on nonprofessional investors judgments","authors":"Akwasi Ampofo, Reza Barkhi, Joseph Nketia","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22623","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine whether accounting for high performing employee services as a right of use (ROU) asset and related liability on the balance sheet provide decision-useful financial statement information to nonprofessional investors (NPIs). We compare accounting for the right to use employees services as an asset on-balance-sheet (ONBS) and off-balance-sheet (OFFBS) to examine the extent to which a ROU asset and related liability provides NPIs with decision-useful information in assessing investment opportunity and likelihood to invest in a company's stock. We analyze one hundred and fifty-five usable responses of which 84 are in OFFBS control condition and 71 are in ONBS treatment condition. We find that accounting for high performing employees services as a ROU asset ONBS or OFFBS provides decision-useful information to NPIs that is not statistically different. Further analysis indicates that accounting for high performing employees as a ROU intangible asset presented ONBS, measured at fair value, or amortized cost with enhanced disaggregation and roll forward disclosures provide decision-useful information to NPIs. The likelihood to invest in a company's stock significantly increases if the ROU asset is measured at fair value with changes recorded in net income. Results have economic and practical implications for investors, standard-setters, and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcaf.22623","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We examine whether accounting for high performing employee services as a right of use (ROU) asset and related liability on the balance sheet provide decision-useful financial statement information to nonprofessional investors (NPIs). We compare accounting for the right to use employees services as an asset on-balance-sheet (ONBS) and off-balance-sheet (OFFBS) to examine the extent to which a ROU asset and related liability provides NPIs with decision-useful information in assessing investment opportunity and likelihood to invest in a company's stock. We analyze one hundred and fifty-five usable responses of which 84 are in OFFBS control condition and 71 are in ONBS treatment condition. We find that accounting for high performing employees services as a ROU asset ONBS or OFFBS provides decision-useful information to NPIs that is not statistically different. Further analysis indicates that accounting for high performing employees as a ROU intangible asset presented ONBS, measured at fair value, or amortized cost with enhanced disaggregation and roll forward disclosures provide decision-useful information to NPIs. The likelihood to invest in a company's stock significantly increases if the ROU asset is measured at fair value with changes recorded in net income. Results have economic and practical implications for investors, standard-setters, and researchers.