The effect of financial reporting quality on corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from the Tunisian stock market |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Management, Zhejiang University, China;2. Business School, University of Queensland, Australia;1. Department of Finance, National Taiwan University, Taiwan;2. School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, China;3. School of Management, Gui Lin University of Technology, China;1. Financial Stability Division, Central Bank of Ireland, Ireland;2. Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland;3. National Center for Socio Economic Information and Forecasting, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam;4. Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | Positive Accounting Theory (Watts and Zimmerman, 1978) stipulates that financial reporting has two dimensions: market signaling and monitoring managerial behaviors. Through these signaling and stewardship means, a better financial reporting quality would have significant economic consequences in terms of efficient resources allocation, which results in improving firms’ investment decision. In this paper, we examine the impact of financial reporting quality on corporate investment efficiency. Our sample is based on 25 Tunisian listed companies for the period 1997–2013. The findings confirm that some characteristics of the financial information, namely, reliability and smoothness, appear to increase the investment inefficiency, while others, i.e., conservatism and relevance, seem have no significant effect on investment decisions. We attribute such results mainly to the contextual specificities of the Tunisian environment, such as, the institutional bodies and settings, the cultural values and some characteristics of the corporate governance system. |
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| Keywords: | Financial reporting quality Overinvestment Underinvestment Information asymmetry Agency costs Emerging market |
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