“…By 2016, the approximately 140 jurisdictions around the world that required or permitted the use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounted for 60% of the world's gross domestic product (Pacter, 2016). Several studies have analysed this process of converting to IFRS, including the effects of adoption (e.g., Aubert & Grudnitski, 2011;Barbosa Neto, Dias, & Pinheiro, 2009;Bissessur & Hodgson, 2012;Cotter & Wee, 2012;De Souza, Borba, & Zandonai, 2011;Durukan, Ozkan, & Dalkilic, 2012; Guimarães dos Santos, Lima, Freitas, & Lima, 2011;Iatridis, 2012a;Lima, 2011;Martins & Brasil, 2008;Martins & Paulo, 2010;Muller, Oliveira & Lemes, 2011;Riedl, & Sellhorn, 2012;Pelucio-Grecco, Geron, & Formigoni, 2010;Pires & Decourt, 2015;Santos & Calixto, 2010); its relation to earnings management (e.g., Aubert & Grudnitski, 2012;Barth, Landsman, Lang, & Williams, 2012;Fernandes, 2011;Iatridis, 2012b;Jeanjean & Stolowy, 2008;Leventis, Dimitropoulos, & Anandarajan, 2011;Pelucio-Grecco, Geron, Grecco, & Lima, 2014;Shelton, Owens-Jackson, & Robinson, 2011;Tsipouridou & Spathis, 2012;Wang & Campbell, 2012;Zéghal, Chtourou, & Sellami, 2011); and the effects of substituting US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to prepare financial reports for the US capital market by companies not located in the United States (e.g., Mcenroe & Sullivan, 2011a, 2011bDuh, Hsu, & Alves, 2012;Kim, Li, & Li, 2012). Academics,...…”