Friday, November 18, 2016

Accounting for Biological Assets and the Cost of Debt

ABSTRACT

Firms engaged in agriculture generate revenue from biological assets that manifest in the cultivation of bearer fruits and nuts, the tilling of crops, and the production of livestock and forestry. We investigate whether firms' cost of debt is associated with the measurement method they use to account for their biological assets. We find that the cost of debt is ...more

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