An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms

In this paper, I investigate whether the mandatory IFRS adoption can reduce the earnings management in UK firms. The results of all three different methods suggest that earnings management has reduced after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in UK firms. The conclusion highlights the importance of a rel...

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Main Author: HU, QING
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36258/
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description In this paper, I investigate whether the mandatory IFRS adoption can reduce the earnings management in UK firms. The results of all three different methods suggest that earnings management has reduced after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in UK firms. The conclusion highlights the importance of a relatively high quality accounting standard to earnings quality. I suggest that the IASB should make their efforts to create higher quality accounting standard and require companies to adopt it.
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spelling nottingham-362582017-10-19T16:58:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36258/ An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms HU, QING In this paper, I investigate whether the mandatory IFRS adoption can reduce the earnings management in UK firms. The results of all three different methods suggest that earnings management has reduced after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in UK firms. The conclusion highlights the importance of a relatively high quality accounting standard to earnings quality. I suggest that the IASB should make their efforts to create higher quality accounting standard and require companies to adopt it. 2016-09-05 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36258/1/Dissertation.pdf HU, QING (2016) An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Earnings management IFRS
spellingShingle Earnings management
IFRS
HU, QING
An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title_full An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title_fullStr An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title_full_unstemmed An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title_short An Analysis of the Effect of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on Earnings Management in U.K Firms
title_sort analysis of the effect of mandatory adoption of international financial reporting standards (ifrs) on earnings management in u.k firms
topic Earnings management
IFRS
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36258/