The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France

We examine the potential for IFRS to influence the market for SEOs in the UK and France. The divergence between the UK domestic accounting standards and IFRS is minor (low-divergence firms) whereas domestic accounting standards in France differ materially from IFRS (high-divergence firms); however,...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Harakeh, Mostafa (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Lee, Edward (author), Walker, Martin (author)
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منشور في: 2018
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11698
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141
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Harakeh, M., Lee, E., & Walker, M. (2019). The Differential Impact of IFRS Adoption on Aspects of Seasoned Equity Offerings in the UK and France. Accounting in Europe, 16(1), 106-138.
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description We examine the potential for IFRS to influence the market for SEOs in the UK and France. The divergence between the UK domestic accounting standards and IFRS is minor (low-divergence firms) whereas domestic accounting standards in France differ materially from IFRS (high-divergence firms); however, both countries have similar legal enforcement and institutional settings that might confound the effect of IFRS adoption. We argue that IFRS adoption serves to mitigate information asymmetry and improve accounting quality. Accordingly, we find that, following IFRS adoption, earnings management activities decrease among high-divergence firms prior to issuing SEOs. As a result of the lower levels of earnings management and information asymmetry, we predict and find that the market reaction to issuing SEOs improves significantly for high-divergence firms following IFRS. Given that equity financing becomes less costly, we find that the propensity to issue new SEOs increases among high-divergence firms after IFRS adoption. We find no similar changes among low-divergence firms. The results persist after running a matched-sample analysis and controlling for potential self-selection bias.
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spelling The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and FranceHarakeh, MostafaLee, EdwardWalker, MartinWe examine the potential for IFRS to influence the market for SEOs in the UK and France. The divergence between the UK domestic accounting standards and IFRS is minor (low-divergence firms) whereas domestic accounting standards in France differ materially from IFRS (high-divergence firms); however, both countries have similar legal enforcement and institutional settings that might confound the effect of IFRS adoption. We argue that IFRS adoption serves to mitigate information asymmetry and improve accounting quality. Accordingly, we find that, following IFRS adoption, earnings management activities decrease among high-divergence firms prior to issuing SEOs. As a result of the lower levels of earnings management and information asymmetry, we predict and find that the market reaction to issuing SEOs improves significantly for high-divergence firms following IFRS. Given that equity financing becomes less costly, we find that the propensity to issue new SEOs increases among high-divergence firms after IFRS adoption. We find no similar changes among low-divergence firms. The results persist after running a matched-sample analysis and controlling for potential self-selection bias.PublishedN/A2020-01-10T13:13:16Z2020-01-10T13:13:16Z20182020-01-10Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1744-9499http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11698https://doi.org/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141Harakeh, M., Lee, E., & Walker, M. (2019). The Differential Impact of IFRS Adoption on Aspects of Seasoned Equity Offerings in the UK and France. Accounting in Europe, 16(1), 106-138.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141enAccounting in Europeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/116982021-03-19T09:10:19Z
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title_full The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France
title_fullStr The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France
title_full_unstemmed The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France
title_short The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France
title_sort The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France
url http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11698
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449480.2018.1531141