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Temporal variation and cross-sectional differences of accounting conservatism in emerging countries
Prior research finds that accounting conservatism has increased over time in developed countries. In this paper, we examine the time-series extent and shift of accounting conservatism in emerging countries over the period 2000-2012. We also analyse differences in conservatism level across countries, regions, legal regimes and industries. In addition, we examine the impact of size, market-to-book and leverage on the degree of conservatism at firm level. We use a set of measures to assess the degree of conservatism. These include changing time-series properties of profitability, earnings, cash flows, accruals components, asymmetric timeliness, Market-to-Book ratio and Khan and Watts' (2009) C-score. We find that the degree of conservatism declined during the period between 2000 and 2007 and increased over the period 2007-2012. In addition, we find significant differences in accounting conservatism between common-law and code-law countries, across regions and industries.
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IJAAPE publishes original scholarly papers across the whole spectrum of: financial accounting, managerial accounting, accounting education, auditing, taxation, public sector accounting, capital market and accounting, accounting information systems, performance evaluation, corporate governance, ethics, and financial management. All methodologies, such as analytical, empirical, behavioural, surveys, and case studies are welcome. IJAAPE encourages contributions especially from emerging markets and economies in transition and studies whose results are applicable across nation states or capable of being adapted to the different accounting and business environments.