Revaluing assets is a violation of CSR if the accompanying credit is taken directly to
equity. Yet asset revaluations bring book value nearer to market value. Immediate write-off
of goodwill violates CSR and usually moves book values farther from market values. In
summary, both recognizing goodwill (consistent with CSR) and revaluing assets (violating
CSR) bring book value nearer to market value. Hence, developing predictions on the
effects of specific accounting treatments on value relevance is not always clear.
Conservative accounting (bias) is expected to generally reduce the value relevance of
both book value and earnings since the essence of conservatism is delay in reflecting
certain events in the accounting records