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Tunneling and value relevance of financial reports: Evidence from Hong Kong
Author(s)
Date Issued
2018
Journal
ISSN
1923-8401
1923-7529
Citation
Review of Economics & Finance, 2018, vol. 11(1), pp. 67-82.
Description
Open Access
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
Using a sample of Hong Kong listed firms that announced related party transactions, this paper examines the informativeness of financial reports prior to the announcements of related party transactions. We find that the value relevance of financial reports is higher for firms undertaking asset or equity tunneling transactions than for firms undertaking other types of related party transactions in the period prior to the announcement of transactions. Given firms with forthcoming tunneling transactions, financial reports are more value relevant for firms with more conservative accounting than for firms with less conservative accounting. Further, the association between conservatism and entrenchment effect is stronger for firms with forthcoming tunneling transactions. Collectively, the evidence suggests that firms adopt conservative accounting to increase the informativeness of financial reports prior to the tunneling transactions, which assists controlling shareholders in expropriating wealth from the minority shareholders from the tunneling transactions.
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