Do Family Firms Choose Conservative Accounting Practices?

IF 2 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE

International Journal of Accounting Pub Date : 2019-12-12 DOI:10.1142/s1094406019500148

Mehul Raithatha, T. Shaw

引用次数: 8

Abstract

We investigate whether family firms are motivated to adopt conservative accounting practices, given their unique characteristics of high promoter holdings, less diversified equity, and long-term interest in the business. We examine whether heterogeneity within family firms, captured through family members’ involvement in management and the firm’s affiliation to a business group, drives conservative behavior. We test our model on a sample of 2534 listed Indian firms from 2006 to 2015. Our results indicate that family-controlled firms are more conditionally conservative in their accounting practices, especially when family members manage them and when they are affiliated with a business group. These findings are robust to alternative measures of conservatism and also after controlling for omitted variable bias and reverse causality.

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家族企业选择保守的会计实务吗？

我们调查了家族企业是否有动机采用保守的会计做法，因为它们具有高发起人持股、较少多元化的股权和对业务的长期兴趣的独特特征。我们研究了家族企业内部的异质性，通过家族成员参与管理和企业与企业集团的关系来捕捉，是否会驱动保守行为。我们在2006年至2015年的2534家印度上市公司的样本上测试了我们的模型。我们的研究结果表明，家族控制的公司在其会计实践中更具条件保守性，尤其是当家族成员管理这些公司时，以及当它们隶属于一个企业集团时。这些发现对于保守主义的替代测量是稳健的，并且在控制了遗漏变量偏差和反向因果关系之后也是稳健的。

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International Journal of Accounting BUSINESS, FINANCE-

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