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Financial reporting quality of ESG firms listed in China

PloS one, 2023-06, Vol.18 (6), p.e0284684-e0284684 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright: © 2023 Wu, Abeysekera. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ;COPYRIGHT 2023 Public Library of Science ;2023 Wu, Abeysekera. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;2023 Wu, Abeysekera 2023 Wu, Abeysekera ;2023 Wu, Abeysekera. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1932-6203 ;EISSN: 1932-6203 ;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284684 ;PMID: 37310959

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  • Title:
    Financial reporting quality of ESG firms listed in China
  • Author: Wu, Mengqian ; Abeysekera, Indra
  • Zahid, Rana Muhammad Ammar
  • Subjects: Accounting ; Accumulated depreciation ; Cash flow forecasting ; Cash flow statements ; China ; Commerce ; COVID-19 ; Decision making ; Earnings management ; Economic aspects ; Engineering and Technology ; Environmental protection ; Environmental quality ; Financial reporting ; Financial statements ; Health risks ; Income ; Influence ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Physical Sciences ; Profits ; Reproducibility of Results ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Robustness (mathematics) ; Smoothness ; Social Sciences ; Standard deviation ; Time series ; Value creation
  • Is Part Of: PloS one, 2023-06, Vol.18 (6), p.e0284684-e0284684
  • Description: Given the growing importance of environmental protection in China, this study investigated the determinants of the financial reporting quality of environmental, social and governance (ESG) firms listed in China. The quality of financial reporting shows how informative the accounting numbers are for decision-making. Because business outlook can influence financial reporting quality, this study examined predictable, moderately predictable and unpredictable business outlooks. The study randomly selected 100 firms from the 2021 China ESG Top 500 Outstanding Enterprises published by the Sina Finance ESG Rating Centre and then analysed those firms in 2018, 2019 and 2020. It investigated determinants (financial health, governance and earnings management), controlling for the influence of known variables (firm age and firm-specific risk) on financial reporting quality measured as accruals quality and earnings smoothness. Ordinary robust least square regression was conducted. Financial health had a negative influence, but governance variables and earnings management did not affect financial reporting quality. Firm-specific risk had a positive effect, but firm age did not influence financial reporting quality. Changes in business outlook had no impact on the determinants' effect on financial reporting quality. The study found that ESG firms did not engage in earnings management and aggressively manage earnings, pointing to ethical behaviour. This is the first study to contribute to understanding the financial reporting quality of ESG firms listed in China. It examined different business outlooks to understand ESG firms' behaviour towards financial reporting quality. The findings invite replicable studies outside China to understand the contextual validity and reliability of the financial reporting quality of ESG firms, and to investigate the effect of determinants not examined in this study.
  • Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
    EISSN: 1932-6203
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284684
    PMID: 37310959
  • Source: Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access
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