Download or read book Are Financial Sector Weaknesses Undermining the East Asian Miracle? written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFC Technical Paper No. 3. Inflation plagues many of the developing countries in which the International Finance Corporation (IFC) operates. To date, however, little is known about the impact of inflation on the financial statements of firms in developing countries. The authors of this study have developed a simple algorithm, based on the method of inflation accounting used in Brazil, and have applied it to the accounts of listed companies in Turkey for the period 1982-90. The paper documents an inflation-induced bias in financial statements and introduces a methodology for adjusting corporate financial statements for inflation effects.