The purpose of introducing the revaluation model on the Statement of Korea Accounting Standards No. 5(SKAS No. 5) and K-IFRS No. 1016 differs, therefore, the position of the company applying these accounting standards is expected to vary in whether th...
The purpose of introducing the revaluation model on the Statement of Korea Accounting Standards No. 5(SKAS No. 5) and K-IFRS No. 1016 differs, therefore, the position of the company applying these accounting standards is expected to vary in whether they carry out the asset revaluation in accordance with the companies characteristics.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in financial characteristics under the perspective of the companies which performed the asset revaluation between the companies which performed the asset revaluation and the companies which did not. From the results, this study will describe the similarities and the differences of the financial characteristics of the company revaluated by SKAS No. 5 and the K-IFRS No. 1016. Furthermore, this study verifies whether additional information is provided to the capital market from the differences of the financial characteristics through revaluation.
Study results are as follows.
Firstly, the result of analysis on the differences in company characteristics including the credit ratings between the company that conducted the asset revaluation and the company that did not conduct the asset revaluation. As a result, during the 2008 and 2009 when SKAS No. 5 was applied, companies with low credit rating, high debt ratio, low ROA, large scale, and low foreign ownership, conducted revaluations. On the other hand, during the periods of 2010 and 2011, when K-IFRS No. 1016 was applied, found no significant differences between the companies which conducted asset revaluation and did not, from variables related to financial structure including credit rating.
The result can be interpreted that the companies which conducted asset revaluation based on the SKAS No. 5 have characteristics such as low credit ratings and having not robust financial structures. Results of further analysis on whether poor credit rated companies showed improvement in the credit rating through asset revaluation, companies in accordance with SKAS No. 5 have shown improvement which was the original intention of the SKAS No. 5. Secondly, as a result of verifying the revaluation surplus of asset-revaluated company has relevance with the share price during 2008 and 2009 in which SKAS No. 5 was applied showed no significant value relevance, but during the period of 2010 and 2011 when K-IFRS No. 1016 was applied showed significant positive(+) value relevance. In other words, the financial information of companies which conducted asset revaluation in accordance with SKAS No. 5 showed improvement of its financial structure and the companies which conducted asset revaluation in accordance with K-IFRS No. 1016 in order to adhere to the principles of international accounting standards with reflecting fair value, was confirmed that shows the different response in the market.
Furthermore, this study analyzes whether revaluation surplus impacts discriminatorily on the value relevance depending on the nature of the company including credit ratings. The revaluation surplus of company which conducted asset revaluation in accordance with SKAS No. 5 showed significant positive value relevance only for companies with high credit ratings, low debt ratio and the value relevance were not found. This can be interpreted as a positive (+) value relevance in the share price of the company’s revaluation surplus with favorable corporate financial structure. These results are similar to results that appeared significant positive (+) value relevance for all variables in the financial information of the company which conducted asset revaluation in accordance with K-IFRS No. 1016.