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Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes around IFRS Adoption?

The European accounting review, 2015-01, Vol.24 (1), p.31-61 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. 2015 ;ISSN: 0963-8180 ;EISSN: 1468-4497 ;DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2015.1009144

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  • Title:
    Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes around IFRS Adoption?
  • Author: Christensen, Hans B. ; Lee, Edward ; Walker, Martin ; Zeng, Cheng
  • Is Part Of: The European accounting review, 2015-01, Vol.24 (1), p.31-61
  • Description: We examine the impact of managerial financial reporting incentives on accounting quality changes around International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption. A novel feature of our single-country setting based on Germany is that voluntary IFRS adoption was allowed and common before IFRS became mandatory. We exploit the revealed preferences in the choice to (not) adopt IFRS voluntarily to determine whether the management of individual firms had incentives to adopt IFRS. For comparability with previous studies, we assess accounting quality through multiple constructs such as earnings management, timely loss recognition, and value relevance. While most existing literature documents accounting quality improvements following IFRS adoption, we find that improvements are confined to firms with incentives to adopt, that is, voluntary adopters. We also find that firms that resist IFRS adoption have closer connections with banks and inside shareholders, consistent with lower incentives for more comprehensive accounting standards. The overall results indicate that reporting incentives dominate accounting standards in determining accounting quality. We conclude that it is unwarranted to infer from evidence on accounting quality changes around voluntary adoption that IFRS per se improves accounting quality.
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0963-8180
    EISSN: 1468-4497
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2015.1009144
  • Source: Taylor & Francis Open Access
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