Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards?

A. Florou, U. Kosi, P.F. Pope, Accounting and Business Research 47 (2016) 1–29.

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Florou, Annita; Kosi, UrskaLibreCat; Pope, Peter F
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We examine whether the credit relevance of financial statements, defined as the ability of accounting numbers to explain credit ratings, is higher after firms are required to report under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find an improvement in credit relevance for firms in 17 countries after mandatory IFRS reporting is introduced in 2005; this increase is higher than that reported for a matched sample of US firms. The increase in credit relevance is particularly pronounced for higher risk speculative-grade issuers, where accounting information is predicted to be more important; and for IFRS adopters with large first-time reconciliations, where the impact of IFRS is expected to be greater. These tests provide reassurance that the overall enhancement in estimated credit relevance is driven by accounting changes related to IFRS adoption. Our results suggest that credit rating analysts’ views of economic fundamentals are more closely aligned with IFRS numbers, and that analysts anticipate at least some of the effects of the IFRS transition.
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Accounting and Business Research
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Florou A, Kosi U, Pope PF. Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards? Accounting and Business Research. 2016;47(1):1-29. doi:10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968
Florou, A., Kosi, U., & Pope, P. F. (2016). Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards? Accounting and Business Research, 47(1), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968
@article{Florou_Kosi_Pope_2016, title={Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards?}, volume={47}, DOI={10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968}, number={1}, journal={Accounting and Business Research}, author={Florou, Annita and Kosi, Urska and Pope, Peter F}, year={2016}, pages={1–29} }
Florou, Annita, Urska Kosi, and Peter F Pope. “Are International Accounting Standards More Credit Relevant than Domestic Standards?” Accounting and Business Research 47, no. 1 (2016): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968.
A. Florou, U. Kosi, and P. F. Pope, “Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards?,” Accounting and Business Research, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1–29, 2016, doi: 10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968.
Florou, Annita, et al. “Are International Accounting Standards More Credit Relevant than Domestic Standards?” Accounting and Business Research, vol. 47, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–29, doi:10.1080/00014788.2016.1224968.

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