Title: Financial reporting quality revisited: interactions between earnings management and the value relevance of accounting information

Authors: Andrei Filip, Jackie Di Vito

Addresses: ESSEC Business School, Av. Bernard Hirsch, B.P. 50105, 95021 Cergy, France. ' HEC Montreal, 3000, Chemin de la Cote Sainte Catherine, Montreal, Quebec H3T 2A7, Canada

Abstract: The concept of financial reporting quality is not new. Earnings management, timely loss recognition and value relevance are often used in prior research as metrics of accounting quality. The objective of the present study is to analyse the interaction between these metrics. By using a sample of 576 Canadian listed firms, we predict that firms with less earnings management exhibit higher value relevance of accounting data. We provide evidence that earnings that are not manipulated (or do not need to be manipulated) are more informative than earnings that are.

Keywords: value relevance; earnings management; accounting quality; financial reporting; accounting information; loss recognition; Canada.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCG.2009.029370

International Journal of Corporate Governance, 2009 Vol.1 No.3, pp.271 - 284

Published online: 28 Nov 2009 *

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