2007
DOI: 10.1080/09638180701706732
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IFRS Adoption and Accounting Quality: A Review

Abstract: In 2002, the European Union (EU) Parliament passed a regulation that requires consolidated and simple accounts for all companies listed in the EU to use International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for fiscal years starting after 1 January 2005. This change in accounting systems will have a large impact on the information environment for EU companies. This paper provides a review of the literature on adoption of different Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). We thus provide background and gui… Show more

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“…Ahmed, Chalmers, & Khlif, 2013;Aubert & Grudnitski, 2011;Barth, Landsman, & Lang, 2008;Chen, Tang, Jiang, & Lin, 2010;Gebhardt & Novotny-Farkas, 2011;Jeanjean & Stolowy, 2008;Lara, Torres, & Veira, 2008;Paananen, 2008;Paananen & Lin, 2009;Soderstrom & Sun, 2007). Besides country factors, there are firm-specific characteristics that reflect managers' incentives to prepare high-quality financial statements.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ahmed, Chalmers, & Khlif, 2013;Aubert & Grudnitski, 2011;Barth, Landsman, & Lang, 2008;Chen, Tang, Jiang, & Lin, 2010;Gebhardt & Novotny-Farkas, 2011;Jeanjean & Stolowy, 2008;Lara, Torres, & Veira, 2008;Paananen, 2008;Paananen & Lin, 2009;Soderstrom & Sun, 2007). Besides country factors, there are firm-specific characteristics that reflect managers' incentives to prepare high-quality financial statements.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As noticed in the table, the IFRS variable enters significantly in most of 809 the regressions. International accounting standards as a corporate governance 810 mechanism aim to standardize financial information and improve the quality of 811 accounting reports by reducing the opacity of accounting numbers and enhancing 812 firm value (Soderstrom and Sun 2007). Another corporate governance device which 813 deserves to be highlighted is ownership concentration.…”
Section: U N C O R R E C T E D P R O O Fmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Em países de origem common law o propósito dos emissores de padrões contábeis é satisfazer as necessidades de informação dos investidores (SODERSTROM; SUN, 2007), ao passo que nos países code law a contabilidade serve de medida para dividir os lucros entre o governo (impostos), acionistas (dividendos), bancos (juros) e trabalhadores (salários e benefícios) (BALL; KOTHARI; ROBIN, 2000).…”
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“…Em tais ambientes, os relatórios financeiros não são frequentemente utilizados para reduzir a assimetria de informação (SODERSTROM; SUN, 2007).…”
Section: Corrupçãounclassified
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