“…The enforcement agencies such as the SEC can step in as a regulator to avoid a firm acting in a natural monopoly market, or managers acting to prejudice consumers and investors. These findings are consistent with results reported in the works of Iatridis (2010), , Hao et al (2019), as well as Key and Kim (2020). With the exception of Iatridis (2010) whose study was based in the UK, the rest of these studies were carried out in Asia, and all of the studies used as proxy, the magnitude of discretionary accruals (DA), in investigating whether IFRS significantly lowers the accrual aggressiveness.…”