“…Second, this study adds to the accounting literature by identifying the determinants of financial statement comparability. A series of previous studies has discussed how accounting standards affect financial statement comparability (e.g., Barth et al, ; Brochet, Jagolinzer, & Riedl, ; Cascino & Gassen, ; Lin, Riccardi, Wang, Hopkins, & Kabureck, ; Neel, ; Wang, ; Yip & Young, ), but only minimal research has explored the firm‐specific factors (e.g., Fang, Maffett, & Zhang, ; Kim, Kang, & Park, ; Lee, Kang, Lee, & Park, ) that play an important role in the implementation of comparability (Francis, Pinnuck, & Watanabe, ). Our study extends the literature and shows that firms' CSR performance at the individual level also influences its financial statement comparability.…”