“…In total, 20 South African accountants, experienced in implementing fair value accounting requirements, were interviewed. The findings complement existing studies on fair value that deal mainly with developed economies, are quantitative or involve fair value's history, ideology, assumptions and appropriateness (Barlev and Haddad, 2003; Penman, 2007; Whittington, 2008; Power, 2010; Georgiou and Jack, 2011; Palea and Maino, 2013; Brousseau et al , 2014; Durocher and Gendron, 2014; Zhang and Andrew, 2014; Barker and Schulte, 2017; Chen et al , 2017; Haswell and Evans, 2018; Palea, 2019).…”