The effect of financial reports’ auality on Ffrm’s rerformance

• Author(s): Lopes, Cláudia Maria Ferreira Pereira ; Cerqueira, António Melo ; Brandão, Elísio
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/584
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Financial report quality; Abnormal accruals; Firm performance
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

We analyse whether the quality of firms’ Financial Reports (FRQ) produces any effect on their performance. Bradshaw et al. (2004) and Gelos and Wei (2005) call attention to the fact that the international capital movements is affected by FRQ. Following Schipper and Vicent (2003) we use the abnormal accruals to access earnings quality. For seventeen European countries, we found evidence that FRQ produces a positive impact on firm’s performance. This finding indicates that mangers are not opportunists and tends to make decisions to defend the firm’s best interests. This result is robust since it does not depend on the accounting firms’ performance proxy (ROA/ROE). In addition, it is also consistent when we use data in time series and in cross-sectional and when we estimate regression with lagged or the current year information about abnormal accruals.