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Proposed international standard on auditing financial statements of less complex entities: IAASB IAAER roundtables—Breakout 2 Design,Structure, and Content

In this commentary, we summarize stakeholder views articulated during roundtables addressing the 2021 International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board's (IAASB) Exposure Draft: Proposed International Standard on Auditing of Financial Statements of Less Complex Entities (ED LCE). In support of its mission, the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER)—together with the IAASB—organized by-invitation roundtables bringing together audit practitioners, academics, and financial statements users. A structured agenda was followed and addressed some of the topics on which the IAASB sought views. This commentary provides a summary of views heard during the second roundtable breakout session focused on Design, Structure, and Content and provides recommendations to the IAASB regarding the way forward. A paper addressing the first breakout session on Authority and Group is available in a previous issue of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting.     

Basic research, openness, and convergence

We study a model where economic growth is fueled by public basic-research investment and the importation of leading technology from foreign countries. In each period, the government chooses the amount of basic research, balancing the costs and benefits of stimulating growth through both channels. We establish the existence of steady states and the long-run share of technologically advanced sectors in the economy. Then we explore how different degrees of openness affect long-term incentives to invest in basic research. Our main insight is that higher openness tends to encourage more investment in basic research, which, in turn, yields a larger share of leading sectors. If, however, there are prospects of importing major technology advances, highly open countries will reduce basic research as such imports become particularly valuable.     

The effects of tax reform on labor supply, tax revenue and welfare when tax avoidance matters

We examine how tax avoidance in the form of trade in well-functioning asset markets affects the study of labor supply. We discuss the implications for tax policy analysis, and we show that a failure to account for avoidance responses may lead to huge errors when analyzing how tax reform affects labor supply, tax revenue and the welfare cost of taxation. Our model may explain a number of otherwise hard to understand dimensions of taxpayer response.