The quality of accounting information in politically connected firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chaney, Paul K.; Faccio, Mara; Parsley, David
• 署名单位: Purdue University System; Purdue University; Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0165-4101
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2010.07.003
• 发表日期: 2011
• 关键词: earnings management; corporate-ownership; ULTIMATE OWNERSHIP; Cash flows; accruals; performance; equity; COSTS; LAW

摘要

We document that the quality of earnings reported by politically connected firms is significantly poorer than that of similar non-connected companies. Our results are not due to firms with ex-ante poor earnings quality establishing connections more often. Instead, our results suggest that, because of a lesser need to respond to market pressures to increase the quality of information, connected companies can afford disclosing lower quality accounting information. In particular, lower quality reported earnings is associated with a higher cost of debt only for the non-politically connected firms in the sample. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.