• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.215-224
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• 2008

For global companies that are going to raise funds from international capital markets or to which lots of foreign investment are being given, it is necessary to prepare consolidated financial statements. This study provides the results of some analyses in accordance with the system of consolidated financial statements disclosure. First, disclosing those statements with audit opinion reflected would provide useful reliable and financial information. Second, such disclosure as foresaid would meet international standards that consolidated financial statements are used as main financial statements and separate financial statements as auxiliary ones. The disclosure system would make it possible for domestic corporations to introduce international accounting standards earlier, especially from 2009, in accordance with the road map of those standards. Third, the system of consolidated financial statements disclosure would play an important role in promoting the implementation of consolidated taxation systems under which corporate tax is levied in accordance with consolidated balance sheet.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.209-216
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• 1998

The Korean economy has been under the IMF-led rescue programs since the late 1997. For the transparency of financial currency, Korean government had made the Korean firms which are depend on each other financially compose the consolidated financial statements since 1985, because South Korea's financial crisis has been caused by a string of corporate failures that have put enormous strain on the banking system at a time when the won was plunging against the dollar. But there are many problems to get the transparency in the actions and accountability of both public and private institutions, because of the domestic corporations' structural characteristics and the law of accounting. This paper reviewed, therefore, some problems on the consolidated financial statements and advantages to introducing the combined financial statements through comparing the contents of those statements

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.750-759
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• 2020

This study examine the relation between additional disclosure information of external audits details on consolidated financial statements, audit hours, and audit fees. The results of the analysis of listed companies that disclosed consolidated financial statements from 2014 to 2016 are as follows. First, the additional disclosures of the consolidated financial statements external audit is positively associated with the audit hours of the auditor. This result can be interpreted that the additional disclosure of the consolidated audit information is based on the incentive to provide useful information of auditor. Second, the audit fees of the auditors for additional disclosures in the consolidated financial statements were not significantly related. This suggests that, the additional disclosure of the consolidated audit practice is not based on the auditor's perception of the audit risk. This study provides that information on the external audit details of audit reports and consolidated audit reports is distinguished and disclosed, providing useful information to researchers. In addition, this study suggests policy implications by demonstrating that disclosure of the details of the external audit of the consolidated financial statements is based on the auditors' incentive to provide useful information.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.33-40
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• 2011

It is very difficult to predict what effects the introduction of IFRS(International and Financial Reporting Standars) has on the existing system. Only the cautious and careful adoption of new system will minimize the confusion. The purpose of this paper is to propose appropriate design and construction of IS on financial statement according to the introduction of IFRS(International Financial Reporting Standard) in order to minimize the confusion. In order to meet that purpose, suggestions on five areas in consolidation financial statement are proposed. Those five aspects are as follows: Area of SPE Consolidation, Area of internal transaction setoff, Area of unrealized gain or loss setoff, Area of eliminate the investment account against the stockholder's equity, Making Consolidation footnote and Consolidation CoA as other area.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.15
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• pp.1-18
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• 2004

It was 1976 when the preparation of consolidated financial sheet was first prescribed in this nation. Since then, the prescription has been revised several times. Revised in April 1992, enforcement regulations of the Securities Exchange Act provided that every listed corporation has its consolidated financial sheets and an auditor's opinion about them attached to its business report. In other words, the outside audit of consolidated financial sheets became inevitable. The Act of the Outside Audit of Corporation was revised in December 1993 to provide that all corporations must prepare consolidated financial sheets and receive the outside audit of the documents beginning their settlement of accounts in December 1994. In case of overseas corporations, consolidated financial sheets and the Equity Law have been applied since their settlement of accounts in December 1995. Now those sheets must be prepared by all local and overseas corporations that involve relations of governance or dependence. The preparation and public notification of consolidated financial sheets has been settled as a system. This nation has not yet introduced consolidated tax return using consolidated financial sheets. Such tax return system is already being used by most of the world's economic powers such as U.S., Europe and Japan. This study shows that reduction in corporation tax is the biggest reason for avoiding consolidated tax return system, even though the system can facilitate the settlement of consolidated accounting. Consolidated tax return, which is being implemented in about 20 countries including U.S., needs to be introduced by this nation where consolidated financial sheets are publicly notified.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.8
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• pp.167-186
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• 2002

Since first introduced on July 1974, consolidated financial statements had been concluded or not depending on decision-makings by companies. But the Securities and Exchange Law as revised on April 1992 specified that any listed corporation must add consolidated financial statements and their auditor's opinion to its business report. foreign-based corporations became subject to the conclusion of the sheets and equity method from the time of business closing on Dec. 1995. Now all of domestic and foreign-based corporations, whether they are controlling or controlled businesses, are subject to consolidated financial statements. Business bankruptcies and restructuring under the economic crisis since the late 1997 raised the necessity of the increased reliability and transparency of consolidated accounting information and significantly changed contents of consolidated audit report. An analysis over the past three years shows that auditor's opinions about consolidated financial sheets are mostly qualified opinions whose proportion is being gradually decreased, while rejected opinions are annually increasing in proportion. When compared to the year of 1998, the numbers of those controlled businesses, and companies under the equity method were all decreased, but rather increased when determined on the basis of such numbers per a corporation. This suggests that corporations are promoting business diversification through business separation and share acquisition and advancing into foreign markets as well as domestic ones. Especially, special contents included in consolidated auditing report show a tendency to increase annually. Based on all these findings, the strengthening of accounting regulation will lead to providing more reliable information related to auditor's opinion about consolidated financial statements and raising the information effectiveness and validity of the statements as publicly notified.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.113-127
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• 2012

From the end of 1st quarter of 2012, Korean mandatory firms had started releasing financial reports conforming to the K-IFRS(Korean adopted International Financial Reporting Standards). Major characteristics of IFRS, such as 'principles based' features, consolidated reporting, 'fair value' measurement, increased pressure for non-financial disclosures have resulted in brief and various disclosure practices regarding the main body of each statements and vast amount of note description requirements. Meanwhile, a host of previous studies on IFRS disclosures have incorporated regulatory and/or 'compete information' perspectives, mainly focusing on suggesting further enforcement of strengthened requirements and providing guidelines for specific treatments. Thus, as an extension of prior findings and suggestions this study had explored to conduct an integrative approach embracing views of the reporting entities and the users of financial information. In spite of all the state-driven efforts for faithful representation and comparability of corporate financial reports, an overhaul of disclosure practices of fiscal year 2010 and 2011 had revealed numerous cases of insufficiency and discordance in terms of mandatory norms and market expectations. As to the causes of such shortcomings, this study identified several factors from the corporate side and the users of the information; some inherent aspects of IFRS, industry/corporate-specific context, expenditures related to internalizing IFRS system, reduced time frame for presentation. lack of clarity and details to meet the quality of information - understandability, comparability etc. - commonly requested by the user group. In order to improve current disclosure practices, dual approach had been suggested; Firstly, to encourage and facilitate implementation, (1) further segmentation and differentiation of mandates among companies, (2) redefining the scope and depth of note descriptions, (3) diversification and coordination of reporting periods, (4) providing support for equipping disclosure systems and granting incentives for best practices had been discussed. Secondly, as for the hard measures, (5) regularizing active involvement of corporate and user group delegations in the establishment and amendment process of K-IFRS (6) enforcing detailed and standardized disclosure on reporting entities had been recommended.