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The Effect of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Adoption on the Value Relevance of Financial Reporting

Author : Tatiana Garanina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Effect of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Adoption on the Value Relevance of Financial Reporting written by Tatiana Garanina and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the influence of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption by Russian public companies on the value relevance of financial reporting in Russia.Design/methodology/approach - We selected 67 Russian public companies that report both under RAS and IFRS for four consecutive years (2006 - 2009). Research limitations - The main limitation of the paper is the sample, but this can be explained by the fact that only 67 companies in Russia report under two standards (RAS and IFRS). So the sample could not be increased as there are no other companies that fulfill the characteristics of the sample.Findings - The obtained results show that on the Russian market there is no evidence of increased value relevance of financial reporting to external users of financial information after adopting IFRS when comparing and evaluating the two regimes (RAS and IFRS) unconditionally. Such results can be explained by the notion of mock compliance which originates due to the institutional differences between the RAS and IFRS development environments.Originality/value - Adoption of IFRS by companies in emerging markets has been a subject of interest for a lot of researchers, but this is the first research of the kind in the field of value relevance of adoption of IFRS on the Russian market.

Effects of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) on Value Relevance of Accounting Information

Author : Osamwonyi Ohonba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
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Download or read book Effects of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) on Value Relevance of Accounting Information written by Osamwonyi Ohonba and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad objective of this research was to empirically examine the effect of IFRS on value relevance of accounting information. This study employs a longitudinal panel research design. The population of this study covers all quoted banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. As at the study period, there were only 15 quoted banks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and this also forms the sample for the study. Secondary data was been used for this study. The data was retrieved from corporate annual reports of the sampled banks for 2010-2017 financial years. The researcher utilizes only corporate annual reports because they are readily available, accessible and also provides a greater potential for comparability of results. More so, they are produced annually and kept in public sphere. The Ordinary least square regression (OLS) was used for the data analysis. The study findings revealed that while IFRS adoption has a statistically significant influence on Earnings per share and Dividend per share value relevance; it has no statistically significant influence on Book value per share value relevance. The study recommends that investors and indeed users of accounting information should still be confident in relying on accounting information prepared by corporate entities in making investment decisions. The study recommends that there is need for companies to comply fully with all IFRS standards in the preparation of financial reports since IFRS adoption was found to have positive effects on value relevance.

Accounting in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Catalin Albu
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounting in Central and Eastern Europe written by Catalin Albu and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), most of them former components of the communist bloc, have suffered diverse influences over time. Historically, the advent of communism in the 1950s has stopped the economic and political development of these countries. Its fall during the late 1980s and early 1990s triggered severe changes in the economic and social environment, with profound consequences on the countries' accounting and business models. The accounting regulatory process of these countries has mostly been a public one, although some countries also involved private sector and professional bodies. With economic and political reforms these countries are now reforming their accounting systems with for example the adoption of International Accounting Standards/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Additionally, the CEE countries' political will to join the European Union compelled the regulators to ensure a high level of harmonization with the European Directives. This volume present theoretical and empirical papers that will further our understanding of accounting issues in CEE countries.

Adoption of IFRS in the Netherlands. Impact on value relevance

Author : Alfred Mully
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656605963
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis Adoption of IFRS in the Netherlands. Impact on value relevance by : Alfred Mully

Download or read book Adoption of IFRS in the Netherlands. Impact on value relevance written by Alfred Mully and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Börse, Versicherung, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Listed Dutch firms are required by law to prepare their financial statements in accordance with the International financial Statements (IFRS) since 2005. Before 2005, listed Dutch firms prepared their financial statements using Dutch law, Title 9 of book two of the Dutch Civil Code. It is interesting to investigate the effect of the implementation of IFRS. Is the quality of the financial statements improved by the implementation of IFRS for the users of the financial statements, such as investors, suppliers and banks? This question can be answered in many ways, looking at different characteristics of the accounting information, for example the comparability, the relevance, the reliability and the understandability. In this thesis the relevance will be studied. Information has the quality of relevance when it influences the economic decisions of users by helping them evaluate past, present or future events or conforming, or correcting, their past evaluations. (IFRS Handbook, 2007, p. 40) In order to be relevant the accounting information must reflect the information needs of the users in valuing a company. In order to determine the market price of a company, investors need accounting information that reflects the share price of a company. The research done studying the relevance of accounting information for valuating companies is called value-relevance research. The implementation of IFRS had consequences for the value-relevance of the accounting information. Whether the value-relevance had improved by the adoption of IFRS is dependent on the differences between the former accounting system and IFRS. The impact on value relevance in the Netherlands has not been studied yet. The impact on value-relevance in other countries has been studied however, for example in the United Kingdom (Harris and Muller, 1999), Germany (Hung and Subramanyam, 2007) and Spain Callao et al. (2007). These studies can give a powerful insight in how the difference in value-relevance of two accounting systems can be studied.

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards

Author : Mohamed H. Warsame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards written by Mohamed H. Warsame and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the impact of adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the prior and superseded International Accounting Standards (IAS) on investor returns, the level of earnings management and the value relevance of accounting information in African capital markets. This study is motivated by the growing momentum of African countries adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for listed, cross listed or even unlisted companies. Prior to the adoption of IFRS, a high level of diversity existed in accounting standards between African countries. These differences consisted of the number of promulgated standards, conservatism of these standards, their completeness for potential accounting transactions, depth and guidelines on allowable measurement methods and disclosure requirements. First, this study empirically examines whether IFRS adoption has impacted investor returns through the informativeness of reported earnings and secondly, whether the level of discretionary earnings management as determined by several models and proxies has declined from the IFRS adoption. Thirdly, this study examines the changes in value relevance of accounting information from the migration to IFRS. This study finds significantly higher informativeness of reported earnings under IFRS for investor returns compared to earnings per share (EPS) reporting under local GAAP after controlling for confounding factors. This provides evidence for the valuation impact of IFRS adoption. Furthermore, this study finds evidence of significantly lower earnings management by firms using IFRS compared to firms utilizing local GAAP's. This lower earnings management by IFRS reporting firms is observed for both the use of discretionary accruals to manage earnings upwards and earnings smoothing. On the value relevance of financial statements, this study first, finds that accounting reports are value relevant in all African markets examined. In addition, IFRS adopted countries and those harmonizing closely with IFRS are found to have the highest value relevance. Furthermore, test of difference in value relevance in South Africa between IFRS and South African GAAP reporting firms shows significantly higher value relevance for IFRS accounting information. -- Abstract.

IFRS Adoption and Financial Reporting Quality

Author : Habeeb Mohamed Nijam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book IFRS Adoption and Financial Reporting Quality written by Habeeb Mohamed Nijam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional and commonly held wisdom with respect to the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is that they lead to improved financial reporting quality and comparability and thereby favorable economic consequences. There are however contradicting evidences disproving this conventional wisdom or rejecting its gross generalization over the entire jurisdictions harmonizing on IFRS. Driven by this fact, quests for knowledge about the dynamics and contexts that lead to differential effects of IFRS get momentum. In an attempt to explore the insight into the effects of international accounting harmonization by way of IFRS adoption, this paper reviews selected literatures on consequences of IFRS adoption. This review discusses some empirical evidences that have been reported in various countries that include Europe, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Norway, Greece, Poland, Belgian, France, Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Jordan, China, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Kenya and Nigeria. Our review focuses on the aspects of value relevance, disclosure quality, cost of capital, earning management and financial statement impact due to the IFRS adoption. This review reveals that economic consequences of IFRS adoption significantly differ across jurisdictions though being its impact reported to be positive in majority of cases. There are also notable number of studies that report indifferent and or negative effects of IFRS adoption. When IFRS studies report mixed evidence with respect to value relevance of book value of equity and earing, book value of equity supersedes the earning parameters. IFRS are found to supersede many other domestic financial reporting standards in terms of volume and quality of disclosures in financial statements. This review also obtains that IFRS' impact on the reduction of cost of capital depends on financial reporting incentives, law enforcement, types of legal systems and various other country and capital market specific characteristics. Further, though there are some evidences to the contrary, the quality of earnings reported under IFRS has been established to be superior to that under other local standards.

Economics and Political Implications of International Financial Reporting Standards

Author : Uchenna, Efobi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466698772
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Economics and Political Implications of International Financial Reporting Standards written by Uchenna, Efobi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are internationally-recognized financial reporting guidelines regulated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to ensure that uniformity exists in the global financial system. In addition to regulating financial reporting, the adoption of IRFS has been shown to impact the flow of foreign capital and trade. Economics and Political Implications of International Financial Reporting Standards focuses on the consequences and determinants of the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), which has remained a top issue in International Accounting. This timely publication brings to the forefront issues related to the political and economic influences and impacts of IFRS in addition to providing a platform for further research in this area. Policy makers, academics, researchers, graduate-level students, and professionals across the fields of management, economics, finance, international relations, and political science will find this publication pertinent to furthering their understanding of financial reporting at the global level.

Effects of Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards

Author : Wai Ling Yap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Effects of Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards written by Wai Ling Yap and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is said to produce higher quality accounting information, greater comparability of accounts, greater consistency of accounting processes, greater transparency between firms and lower costs of capital. However, there are arguments against the adoption of IFRS. The first objective of this study is to examine the accounting quality of IFRS earnings and equity, compared to the accounting quality of earnings and equity prepared under previous standards; that is GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) for United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Singapore firms. The second objective is to investigate the effect of IFRS on the accounts (earnings and equity) of the average listed firm in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. These three countries are chosen because of their comparable historical Anglo-accounting system roots, but deviations in approaches during the accounting standards harmonization era. This study focuses on the initial adoption of IFRS, which is the most appropriate time to measure and fully capture the impact of the changes of accounting standards from GAAP to IFRS. The reason for this is because IFRS 1 First Time Adoption of International Financial Accounting Standards states that firms have to show reconciliations between previous GAAP and IFRS on (a) equity at the date of transition and the end of the latest period presented in the entity's most recent annual financial statements under GAAP, and (b) profit or loss of the latest period of the entity's most recent annual financial statements, with supplementary explanations necessary for understanding the transition. The results of this study shows the accounts of United Kingdom firms are most affected by the adoption of IFRSs when compared to Hong Kong and Singapore firms. Results also reveal that there is little evidence to conclude that financial statements prepared under IFRS are more market value relevant than financial statements prepared under GAAP.There is also little evidence to conclude that financial statements prepared under IFRSs are incrementally value relevant relative to financial statements prepared under GAAP. The conclusions are that countries that historically chose their GAAPs on selective IASs prior to the adoption of IFRSs were less affected by adjustments to companies equity and earnings. But these adjustments, even in the less harmonized companies in the United Kingdom, were not value relevant to the equity market.

IFRS in a Global World

Author : Didier Bensadon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319282255
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book IFRS in a Global World written by Didier Bensadon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, dedicated to Prof. Jacques Richard, is about the economic, political, social and even environmental consequences of setting accounting standards, with emphasis on those that are alleged to be precipitated by the adoption and implementation of IFRS. The authors offer their reasoned critiques of the effectiveness of IFRS in promoting genuine global comparability of financial reporting. The editors of this collection have invited authors from 17 countries, so that a great variety of accounting, auditing and regulatory cultures, and educational perspectives, is amply on display in their essays.

Insights into IFRS : KPMG's practical guide to International Financial Reporting Standards. 1

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Insights into IFRS : KPMG's practical guide to International Financial Reporting Standards. 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

IAS/ IFRS

Author : Vera Palea
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
ISBN 13 : 9788846480880
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book IAS/ IFRS written by Vera Palea and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Financial Reporting Standards Implementation

Author : Mohammad Nurunnabi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801174423
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book International Financial Reporting Standards Implementation written by Mohammad Nurunnabi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to International Accounting aims to address a vital gap in research by focusing on providing relevant and timely studies on International Financial Reporting Standards implementation for local and international policymakers.

The Impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Adoption on the Accounting Quality of Listed Companies in Kenya

Author : Erick Rading Outa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Adoption on the Accounting Quality of Listed Companies in Kenya written by Erick Rading Outa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to establish if the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Kenya has been associated with higher accounting quality for listed companies based on the theory that IFRS adoption has benefits such as transparency, accounting quality and reduced cost of capital. By applying quantitative techniques and responding to suggestions on country specific studies, accounting quality measures of earnings management, timely loss recognition and value relevance were analyzed. There was increased variability in earnings in the post adoption period as analyzed by Levenes test for variances with f and p values of 0.000 (.05). While the variability of change in earnings to variability of change in cash flows showed insignificant decline, analysis based on rank sum tests indicated u=0.0 and p=0.317 implying insignificant difference between the pre and post cash flow and earnings ratio variance. The Spearman correlation between cash flow and accruals as analyzed by Cramer's test reported a p =.157, that is p5. The rest of the measures showed insignificant variations. Previous research examined the effects of IFRS adoption mainly in the EU on the impact of IFRS adoption using quantitative techniques with literature citing gaps and conflicting conclusions on accounting quality changes. In contrast, the current research in a common law developing country has shown that IFRS insignificantly improves accounting quality under different circumstances which can be generalized in developing countries. This contribution matters as it implies more debates and better methods to be researched on while adopters to be assured that insignificant improvements appear to be related to compliance and adoption strategies most of which are continuously addressed by the Standard setters and regulators.

The Value Relevance of International Financial Reporting Standards

Author : Mihaela Ionascu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Value Relevance of International Financial Reporting Standards written by Mihaela Ionascu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper explores the benefits of global financial reporting models for developing countries, discussing the case of Romania, which, at the recommendations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, exceeded the minimum requirements of the European Union, by imposing the full adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in individual financial statements of listed companies. Using regression analysis and decomposition techniques, the paper explores the evolution in value relevance of financial variables based on pre-(2009-2012) and post-(2014-2016) adoption samples, showing that after IFRS adoption financial information becomes significantly more relevant for equity valuations. We also provide empirical evidence showing that the degree of relevance for stock valuation, as well as the IFRS impact varies across types of firms. Overall, our findings tend to indicate the success of the financial reporting reform, which could be relevant for other jurisdictions facing similar decisions.

Global Comparability of Financial Reporting Under IFRS

Author : Francesco De Luca
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031151569
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Comparability of Financial Reporting Under IFRS by : Francesco De Luca

Download or read book Global Comparability of Financial Reporting Under IFRS written by Francesco De Luca and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The globalization of financial markets worldwide has progressively pushed toward simultaneous globalization of accounting information. Thus, during the last 50 years, categories of preparers, users, and regulators have devoted their efforts to support the global comparability of financial reporting aiming at favoring the comparison of corporates’ financial performances at a cross-country level. In the same vein, IASB, national standard setters, and jurisdictions have participated in and given momentum to this process. At the same time, academic research has followed this process and tried to build a theoretical framework to address the related issues, to assess the impact on preparers, users, and regulators, while defining hindrances and obstacles to the comparability of financial reporting especially in an IFRS environment. In this context, this book reviews research studies on the comparability of financial reporting at a global level as well as highlights empirical analyses that demonstrate the extent to which global comparability has been achieved, and how it enhances value relevance of earnings across countries. It also looks at the cross-country investors’ perspectives by shaping the empirical analysis to provide further insights on the role of the "Big Four" auditing services in enhancing the comparability of earnings. The book provides an original contribution to the current debate about the comparability of financial reporting under IFRS and will be useful for researchers in the field.

Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting

Author : Mary E. Barth
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1601980086
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting written by Mary E. Barth and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting aids researchers in conducting research relevant to global financial reporting issues, particularly those of interest to financial reporting standard setters. Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting describes the relation between research and standard-setting issues; explains how a variety of research designs can be used to address questions motivated by standard-setting issues, including valuation research and event studies; offers examples of research addressing a specific global standard-setting issue - use of fair value in measuring accounting amounts; offers further opportunities for future research on specific standard-setting topics by providing motivating questions relating to the major topics on the agendas of the FASB and IASB; explains how the IASB aims to achieve its mission of developing a single set of high quality accounting standards that are accepted worldwide; summarizes extant evidence on the relative quality of accounting amounts across global standard-setting regimes and whether global financial reporting is achievable or even desirable. Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting examines opportunities for future research on issues related to globalization of financial reporting by identifying motivating questions that are potentially avenues for future research.

Earnings Quality

Author : Jennifer Francis
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1601981147
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Earnings Quality written by Jennifer Francis and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review lays out a research perspective on earnings quality. We provide an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research. Throughout, we focus on a capital markets setting, as opposed, for example, to a contracting or stewardship setting. Our reason for this choice stems from the view that the capital market uses of accounting information are fundamental, in the sense of providing a basis for other uses, such as stewardship. Because resource allocations are ex ante decisions while contracting/stewardship assessments are ex post evaluations of outcomes, evidence on whether, how and to what degree earnings quality influences capital market resource allocation decisions is fundamental to understanding why and how accounting matters to investors and others, including those charged with stewardship responsibilities. Demonstrating a link between earnings quality and, for example, the costs of equity and debt capital implies a basic economic role in capital allocation decisions for accounting information; this role has only recently been documented in the accounting literature. We focus on how the precision of financial information in capturing one or more underlying valuation-relevant constructs affects the assessment and use of that information by capital market participants. We emphasize that the choice of constructs to be measured is typically contextual. Our main focus is on the precision of earnings, which we view as a summary indicator of the overall quality of financial reporting. Our intent in discussing research that evaluates the capital market effects of earnings quality is both to stimulate further research in this area and to encourage research on related topics, including, for example, the role of earnings quality in contracting and stewardship.