“…The practice of REM is more costly from the perspective of shareholders and investors (Chi, Lisic, & Pevzner, 2011; Zang, 2012) because it is associated with low‐quality cash flow information (Roychowdhury, 2006), exacerbated information asymmetry, less credible and reliable accounting numbers (Ascioglu, Hegde, Krishnan, & McDermott, 2012) and severe economic consequences (Tang, Eller, & Wier, 2016). Thus, finding a mechanism to eliminate REM has become of increasing interest to several types of stakeholder over the last decade.…”