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The Effects Of International Financial Reporting Standards On Financial Reporting Quality, Wafaa Salah, Abdallah Ahmed Abdelsalam Jul 2019

The Effects Of International Financial Reporting Standards On Financial Reporting Quality, Wafaa Salah, Abdallah Ahmed Abdelsalam

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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the financial reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has more quality than local GAAP for firms listed on Taiwan stock exchange. Financial Reporting Quality is measured in this study by three attributes of earnings introduced in previous literature, namely: 1) earnings management expressed as managing towards positive earnings and earnings smoothing and, 2) timely loss recognition expressed as the asymmetric incorporation of economic gains and losses and large negative net income, and 3) value relevance. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Regression analysis, Z-test, and Binary Logistic Regression are employed to investigate …