The Effect Of Mandatory IFRS Adopting on Reducing Accrual – Based Earnings Management – Study on Listed Firms in Egyptian Stock Market

Document Type : Original Article

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Accounting Department Faculty of Commerce Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt

Abstract

This research aims to determine how moving to adopt mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reduces accrual – based earnings management measured on a sample of listed firms in Egyptian stock market at the period between 2013 and 2016 . The result showed that however there is a difference in the mean of discretionary accruals between the first period and the second one, there is no significance in these differences , that leaded to reject the research hypothesis that is  mandatory adopting IFRS reduces accrual – based earnings management .

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