scholarly journals A Study of the Influence of Earnings Management and Accounting Information Quality on the Investment Efficiency of Chinese Listed Companies

Author(s):  
Lai-Wang Wang ◽  
Chiu-Hsiung Chen ◽  
Cheng-Chung Wu
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Zhonghai Yang ◽  
Roger Su ◽  
Shasha Zhou ◽  
Yingmei Li

Using the Chinese A-share listed firms over the period from 2005 to 2012, this paper examines the relationships between earnings management, annual report patch and accounting comparability. The empirical results indicate that Chinese listed companies tend to release their annual report patch after implementing accrual earnings management, but the Chinese listed companies are not likely to release their annual report patch after implementing real earnings management. Disclosing an annual report patch after implementing earnings management may have a positive impact on accounting comparability. This result indicates that an annual report patch published by sample firms may rectify disclosed errors or earnings management of a previous annual report, as a result accounting information quality will be improved.


2022 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 0-0

This paper takes the listed companies in China from 2008 to 2017 as the research sample to study the relationship between accounting information quality (AIQ) and company innovation investment efficiency. The results show that AIQ is negatively correlated with both the underinvestment and overinvestment of corporate innovation. Further, AIQ can alleviate financing constraints and reduce the lack of innovation investment; At the same time, AIQ can also alleviate the agency conflict and reduce the excessive investment in innovation. Finally, AIQ can promote the innovation investment efficiency of companies with low information environment.


2022 ◽  
Vol 33 (88) ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Claudio Marcio Pereira da Cunha ◽  
Pedro Paulo Furbino Bretas Barros

ABSTRACT This paper aimed to evaluate the moderation by variables related to incentives for earnings management (indebtedness, profitability, and size) over the effect of the change in standards (accounting or tax) on the book-tax differences (BTD). The end of the Transitional Tax Regime (RTT) enables us to evaluate the symmetry between the divergence and reconvergence of the accounting and tax standards, helping to identify the moderating effect of characteristics such as size, leverage, and profitability over the use of the discretion allowed by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Studying the effects of changes in the standards contributes to understanding how they affect accounting information quality, particularly when we observe symmetrical movements of divergence of the accounting and tax standards, such as IFRS adoption, and of reconvergence, with the end of the RTT. The analysis conducted enables us to separate effects of divergence between the tax and accounting standards from the innovations introduced by the IFRS. An understanding of the effect of the standard over accounting information quality contributes to the quality of the work of financial analysts, tax authorities, and regulators. Event studies are conducted to evaluate the effect of IFRS adoption, as well as the end of the RTT, over the BTD (a proxy for earnings management), in cross sections of companies. We use explanatory variables related to incentives to manage book and taxable income (indebtedness, profitability, and size), which could explain the ambiguity of the results in the literature. The article provides evidence that the indebtedness and size of companies influence the effect of IFRS adoption, as well as of the end of the RTT. We observed a negative relationship of indebtedness and size with the impact of changes in standards over differences between book and taxable income (BTD).


2016 ◽  
Vol 693 ◽  
pp. 1935-1942
Author(s):  
W.M. Mou

After explaining the definition of accounting information quality and investment efficiency, the paper goes on analyzing the impact of accounting information quality on investment efficiency, puts forward the assumptions, and extracts the Shenzhen Stock Exchange A-share 99 listed companies from 2009 to 2011 sample data for empirical research. It is found that high quality accounting information can contribute to improving the under-investment and restraining over-investment, and thus improve the investment efficiency of the enterprises.


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