The Impact of Financial Statement Comparability on Earnings Management: Evidence from Frontier Markets

This paper examined whether financial statement comparability constrains opportunistic earnings management in frontier market countries. Using a large sample of 19 frontier market countries, and an accounting comparability method that maps comparability across several accounting standards, the resul...

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Main Authors: Wil Martens, Prem W. S. Yapa, Maryam Safari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:International Journal of Financial Studies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7072/8/4/73