State ownership and financial statement comparability

IF 2.2 3区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI:10.1111/jbfa.12757

William Francis, Xian Gu, Iftekhar Hasan, Joon Ho Kong

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Abstract

This paper investigates how state ownership affects financial reporting practices in China. Using several measures of state (government) ownership, we show that a one-standard-deviation increase in state ownership decreases financial statement comparability by 36.61%, and the impact is more pronounced when the central authority has majority control of the company. Moreover, lower earnings quality and lower levels of accounting conservatism among state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may explain the lower accounting comparability between SOEs and non-SOEs (NSOEs). Additionally, similar (different) managerial objectives converge (diverge) financial statement comparability between SOEs and NSOEs. Last, the geographical locations of firms also contribute to financial statement comparability. We employ a difference-in-differences design, changes regression and entropy balancing to mitigate potential endogeneity bias.

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国家所有权和财务报表的可比性

本文研究了国家所有权如何影响中国的财务报告实践。通过对国家（政府）所有权的几种衡量方法的研究，我们发现国家所有权每增加一个标准差，财务报表可比性就会降低 36.61%，而且当中央政府拥有公司的多数控制权时，这种影响更为明显。此外，国有企业较低的盈利质量和较低的会计保守主义水平也可以解释国有企业与非国有企业之间较低的会计可比性。此外，相似（不同）的管理目标也会收敛（分散）国有企业与非国有企业的财务报表可比性。最后，企业的地理位置也会影响财务报表的可比性。我们采用差分设计、变化回归和熵平衡来减轻潜在的内生性偏差。

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Journal of Business Finance & Accounting BUSINESS, FINANCE-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

17.20%

发文量

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