Convergência contábil internacional : uma análise da qualidade da informação contábil em razão da adoção dos padrões internacionais de contabilidade editados pelo IASB (original) (raw)

With the development of globalized markets, accounting is to be the language of communication between different companies and countries, because the language is not uniform. International accounting standards have to minimize these differences in order to improve comparability between companies and improve this information to be more useful. They have a need to improve the quality of information, which is expected with the use of standards. Thus, this study examined the quality resulting from the adoption of international accounting standards globally, then two groups of countries, involving the group of the most developed and emerging countries and individualized by country. To measure quality, four dimensions of quality were used as proxies: persistence, conservatism, earnings management and Value Relevance. Regarding the overall result, only the hypothesis of increased value relevance was not rejected. Even when results were analyzed the developed and emerging countries. Among th...