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- Title
IFRS adoption and analysts' earnings forecasts: Australian evidence.
- Authors
Cotter, Julie; Tarca, Ann; Wee, Marvin
- Abstract
We study 145 large listed Australian firms to explore the impact of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) adoption on the properties of analysts' forecasts and the role of firm disclosure about IFRS impact. We find that analyst forecast accuracy improves, and there is no significant change in dispersion in the adoption year, suggesting that analysts coped effectively with transition to IFRS. However, we do not observe the expected relationship between firms' IFRS impact disclosures in their financial statements issued at the end of the transition year with forecast error and dispersion in the adoption year. The results question the timeliness and usefulness of financial statement disclosure, even in a setting where disclosure was mandated by accounting standards (AASB 1047 and AASB 1) and firms had strong incentives to provide information to analysts.
- Subjects
FINANCIAL statements; CORPORATE finance; FINANCIAL disclosure; ACCOUNTING standards; AUDITING standards; DISCLOSURE
- Publication
Accounting & Finance, 2012, Vol 52, Issue 2, p395
- ISSN
0810-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00392.x