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Conditional Conservatism and its Effect on Earnings Quality and
Stock Prices in Indian Capital Market
Gregory D. Lyimo
Assistant Lecturer, The Institute of Finance Management (IFM) Shaaban Robert Street, P.O.BOX 3918, Dar es
salaam, Tanzania
*E-mail of corresponding author: gregorylyimo2002@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract
This study examines conditional conservatism in Indian capital markets and extent to which conditional
conservatism affect earnings quality and stock prices. Conservatism principle has been traditionally used in
financial reporting for long time it has been dominant accounting principles (Watts 2003). In recent years, the
focus of standard setters such is IASB have been less conservative accounting standard. We used secondary data
for companies listed in Bombay stock exchange from 2006 to 2012. We employed pooled panel data regression
with standard error robust. We find enough evidence to support presence of conditional conservatism during
2006 to 2012 in Indian capital market. We also find that conservatism do not affect the quality of reported
earnings, however it influence stock prices.
Keywords: Conservatism, earnings quality, returns.
1.0 Introduction
In recent years, the quality of reported earnings has become key concern for analyst and investors as it influence
resources allocation in capital markets. However, the quality of reported earnings is influenced by standards used
to measure and managers discretion in the process of measuring. This has lead to the need to understand the
process of measurement of earnings and factors that induce bias in the process of measuring the reported
earnings in order to avoid poor allocation of investment in financial markets. It is becoming important for
analysts and investors to understand factors that influence the quality of reported earnings so as to avoid losses in
trading and maximize their portfolio.
Traditionally financial reporting is based on conservatism principle which requires anticipating all possible
losses and writes them off in unfavorable period and underestimate gains in favorable period (Penman& Zhang
2002). This principle has been practiced in the past, and it has been influential one over time (Watts 2003).
However in recent years, standard setters for example IASB have developed standard which are less
conservative in nature in an attempt to reduce conservatism in financial reporting.
Studies have documented mixed findings relating to the effect of conservatism on earnings quality and stock
prices. On the one hand, Chen et al. (2007) findings suggest that advantage of conservatism is to decrease the
level of earnings management. Likewise, Fan & Zhang (2007) suggests that conservatism enhance information
quality.
On the other hand prior studies have documented negative impact of conservatism on earnings and return. Chen
et al. 2013 findings reveal that firms that are more conservatism are associated with poor earnings quality.
Specifically their findings suggest that conservatism reduces the persistence of earnings thus making earnings of
poor quality. Likewise, Hui et al. (2009) find that more conservative firms release less earnings forecast.
Moreover, studies also have associated level of conservatism in financial reporting and legal origin. For example
Ball et al. (2000) affirms that companies in common law countries recognize timely bad news than good news as
compared to code law countries. Likewise, Ball et al. 2003 find that East Asian countries Hong Kong, Thailand,
Singapore and Malaysia which are common law countries use conditional conservatism in reporting.
Furthermore, the level of conditional conservatism has been associated ownership of companies. For example,
Ball and Shivakumar (2005) find that conditional conservatism is more in public companies than in private
companies. Also, Risberg (2005) reveals that independent firms recognize bad news timelier as compared to
firms with pyramid group.
So far, the debate on the conservatism is far from been resolved, one side opposing conservatism and other side
supporting conservatism. Also studies have shown that legal origin also influences the level of conservatism
accounting. Therefore, this study is motivated to examine conditional conservatism in India and the effect of
conditional conservatism on earnings quality and stock price.
This study is important due to three reasons. Fist, India economy is growing faster and is now shifting from
industrialized to high-tech services oriented. The concern now is the the ability of financial report to reflect the
economy changes as this change results to the increased research and development expenses as well as
restructuring charges. The immediately written them off by some companies has increased conservatism.
Therefore, conducting this study in India will fill gap in literature.
Second, most of studies investigating the effect of conservatism on earnings quality and stock price have done in
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developed economies and assume market efficiency (Ball et al. 2000, Penman& Zhang 2002, Ball et al. 2010,
and Kim & Pevzner 2010). Therefore conducting this study in emerging market where the level of efficiency of
capital market is less than developed economies will provide new insights from emerging market perspective.
Third, Ball et al. (2000, 2003) affirms that companies in common law countries recognizes timely bad news than
good news as compared to code law countries. India is a common law country, which offers unique setting on
legal origin to study the trend of conditional conservatism in India over time.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section two discusses the literature review. Section three cover
data and methodology. Section four present empirical findings and finally, section five draw the conclusion.
2.0 Literature Review
Many studies have investigated the relationship between conditional conservatism and earnings quality. For
example, Kim & Pevsner (2010) investigate the relationship between conditional conservatism and future
negative surprise in USA from 1973 to 2005. Their findings suggest that conditional conservatism is positively
associated with future lower likelihood of bad earnings. Their findings also suggest that conservatism have
information benefit to users as it influences stock prices. However, Abedini et al. (2014) examine the level of
conservatism and investors reaction to cash stock in Tehran stock exchange. Their finding shows that more
conservative firms have negative effect on reaction of investor on cash stock.
Moreover, Kazemi et al. (2011) examine the relationship between conservatism and earnings quality. Their
findings suggest that there is positive relationship between conservatism and earnings quality measured by
persistence, predictability, value relevance and timeliness of earnings. However, Chen et al. (2013) investigate
the relationship between conservatism and earnings and find that firms that are more conservatism are associated
with poor earnings quality. Their findings suggest that bias induce in earnings by conservatism accounting
makes earnings less persistence earnings.
Consequently, Gigler and Hemmer (2001) examine the relationship between conservatism and voluntary
disclosure. Their findings show that more conservative firms are associated with less voluntary disclosure. Also,
Hui et al. (2009) conducted study to examine the relationship between conservatism and management earnings
forecast. Their finding show that firm that practice conservative accounting principle releases less earnings
forecast
Studies have investigated conditional conservatism and earnings quality measured by auditor tenure. For
example, Li (2010) study shows that there is negative relationship between conservatism and auditor’s tenure for
small firms, however the study reveal positive association between conservatism and auditors tenure for large
firms. Likewise Soliman (2014) findings show that there positive relationship between conservatism and auditor
tenure.
Using a sample of 126,376 firm year observation from 1975 to 2004, Balachandran & Mohanram (2011)
investigate the relationship between increased accounting conservatism and value relevance of earnings. Their
findings reveal that there is no relationship between increased conservatism and decline in value relevance of
earnings. Likewise, Nahandi, & Khanlari, (2012) examine the association between conservatism and information
content of earnings. Their finding show non linear relationship between conservatism and information content of
earnings.
Chen et al. (2007) examine relationship between earnings quality measured by earnings management and
conservatism. Their findings show that conservative accounting improves earnings quality by reducing earnings
management. Likewise Fan & Zhang (2012) examines the relationship between conservatism and information
efficiency. Their finding suggests that conservative firms are associated with improved information quality.
Using conservatism score (CS) as measure of conservatism, Penman & Zhang (2002) findings reveal that poor
earnings are associated with more conservatism accounting. Also their finding reveals that stock prices do not
react to earnings quality of firm that practice more conservative accounting. Likewise Lagor (2008) investigate
the relationship between conservatism and restatement announcement. The findings show that conditional
conservatism increases following restatement announcement. Also the findings reveal that conditional increased
more for firm with debt and compensation contracting which are significant.
The evidence presented so far show mixed findings; some opposing conservatism and other supporting
conservative as it enhance better earnings quality and influence stock prices. This mixed finding is what makes
this study unique to investigate conservatism trend in India and its effect on earnings quality and stock price in
India stock market.
3.0 Hypothesis, Methodology and Data
3.1Hypothesis
We proposed two research hypothesis stated in alternative in investigating conservatism accounting in India and
its effect to earnings quality and stock prices. Since Ball et al. (2000) affirms that companies in common law
countries recognize timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries. We state our first
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hypothesis in alternative form as given below.
1H : Firms in India use conservatism accounting in financial reporting.
Prior studies have documented that conservatism accounting is negatively related both earnings quality and stock
prices (Penman & Zhang 2002, Paek et al. 2007 and Abedini, et al. 2014). We form our second hypothesis stated
in alternative as shown below.
2H : Conservatism has negative impact on earnings quality and stock price.
3.2Methodology
We employed quantitative research methods to study conditional conservatism trend in India and its effect on
both earnings quality and stock prices. Our study follow model proposed by Basu 1997 to investigate conditional
conservatism in India and its effect on stock price as given in equation one.
ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, / (1)
Where;
=tiEPS , Earnings per share before extraordinary for firm i for year t
=tiP, Price at the end of year for firm i for year t
1)1, /)( −−−= tttti PPPRET
=tiDR , Dummy variable equal to 1 if tiRET , is negative and zero otherwise
=ti,ψ Error term
Similar with prior studies the extent of conservatism is measured by the asymmetric timeline coefficient ( 3α )
(Basu 1997, Ismail & Elbolok 2011). When 3α >0 and it is statistically significance indicates that bad news are
recognized more quickly that good news thus firms uses conservatism accounting.
We also follow extended Basu (1997) model proposed by Ismail & Elbolok (2011) to examine the effect of
conservatism on earnings quality as indicated on equation two.
ttitititititititi NPCFORETDRRETDRPEPS ψααααα +++++= ,,4,,3,2,10,, /*/ (2)
Where
=tiCFO , Cash flow from operation for firm i in year t
=tiNP, Net profit before extra ordinary activities for firm i for year t
3.3 Sample section
The study used secondary data extracted from Prowess database that is maintained by the Center for Monitoring
Indian Economy. Our sample size initial was comprised of 500 companies listed in BSE 500. However, we
reduced companies with missing information for computing key variables thus reduced our sample to 337
companies with 2,359 firm year observations. Our sample period is seven spinning from 2006 to 2012.
4.0 Empirical results
4.1 Descriptive statistics
Table 1 present the results of descriptive statistics for our variables. The mean (median) value of earning per
scaled by beginnings stock price is 0.069 (0.0596). The mean (median) value of return is 0.173 (0.0501) while
the mean (median) value of earnings quality measured by cash flow from operation scaled by net profit is 1.454
(1.0085).
4.2 Pairwise Correlation
Table 2 reports pairwise correlation among our variables. Returns ( tiRET , ) is significance negatively related to
negative return ( tiDR , ) at 5% level of significance. We also find there positive significance correlation between
return ( tiRET , ) and titi RETDR ,, * at 5% level of significance. Moreover, there is significance negative
relationship between tiDR , and titi RETDR ,, * at 5% level of significance.
4.3Results of Heteroskedasticity test, Multi-co linearity test, and Outliers
We report our results of tests and regression estimation in this section. Table 3 report the results of multi-
collinearity test. We employed variance inflation factors to determine whether there is problem of multi-
collinearity among our independent variables. We obtained variance inflation factor values of 2.13, 2.09 and
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1.22 which are far away from the cut-off value of 10 (Hair, et al 1995, Gujarat 2003). Therefore our independent
variables are free from problem of multi-collinearity.
Table 4 presents the results of heteroskedasticity test. We employed Breusch-Pagan test and obtained chi-square
value of 71.34 which is far beyond the chi-square value of 3.84. We therefore, rejected the null hypotheses of
constant variance. To alleviate the problem of heteroskedasticity we employed pooled OLS with standard error
robust using STATA statistical package (Thompson 2011).
We also winsorized all our variables at 99% and 1%, to alleviate the problem of extreme observations that might
have influence on our study similar with prior studies (Francis et al 2004). Out of 2,359 firm year observations
24 observations in this paper are winsorized.
4.3.1 Pooled Regression Results and Discussion
This part reports the results of regression for whole sample and year basis regression results on asymmetric
timelines and also we report the effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality and stock prices.
Table 5 reports the results of estimation of conditional conservatism. We employed Basu 1997 model and find
that asymmetric timelines coefficient ( 3α = 0.0539, p<0.05). This evidence supports our first hypothesis that
firms in India uses conservatism accounting. We also find that earnings are sensitive to bad news at 1.97 times
( 121 /)( ααα + as compared to sensitivity to good news.
Table 6 report conditional conservatism values of our full sample from 2006 to 2012 in year basis. We find that
in each year the asymmetric timeliness coefficient is greater than zero ( 3α >0) that indicates the presence of
conservatism yearly in India. In year 2006 the asymmetric timeliness is 0.0789, p <0.05, likewise in 2007 the
asymmetric timeliness coefficient is 0.0175, p <0.05. We also find that the coefficient of asymmetric timeliness
is 0.00002, p <0.01 in 2009. Moreover in 2012 we find the asymmetric timeliness coefficient of 0.2410, p<0.05.
However, we find insignificant asymmetric timeliness coefficient in 2008, 2010, 2011. Therefore, on average our
year basis results from 2006 to 2012 suggest presence of conditional conservatism in India. Also our results
suggest that there is negative relationship between stock price and conditional conservatism. As conditional
conservatism increases stock price tends to fall.
Table 7 presents the result of effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality. We employed model
developed by Ismail & Elbolok 2011 to examine the effect of conservatism on earnings. We find that there is no
significant relationship between conservatism and earnings quality ( 4α =0.000215, p>0.1). Therefore, presence
of conservatism does not influence earnings quality in India.
The overall findings show prevalence of conservatism in India. The findings also reveal that the level of
sensitivity of earnings to bad news in India is 1.97 times as compared to positive return. However, this level of
sensitivity to bad news is low as compared to sensitivity of 5.69 reported in Egypt capital markets by Ismail &
Elbolok (2011). We also collectively find that conditional conservatism do not influence earnings quality,
however it influence stock prices in Indian stock market.
5.0 Conclusion
We examine conditional conservatism in context of Indian stock market and extent to which conditional
conservatism affect both stock prices and earnings quality. Conservatism principle has been traditionally been
used in financial reporting and it has been influential principle over time (Watts 2003).
We specifically investigated whether financial markets in India reflect more bad news timely than good news
and extent to this affect the quality of earnings. Our evidence suggests that financial markets reflect more bad
news than good news ( 3α =0.0539, p<0.05). We find that earnings are sensitive to bad news at 1.97
( 121 /)( ααα + as compared to sensitivity to good news. Our evidence support Ball et al. 2000 findings that
firms in common law countries recognize timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries.
We also find that conditional conservatism do not affect the quality of reported earnings, however it influence
stock prices.
Our findings have implication to regulators to develop or adopt accounting standard that reduces or eliminate
conservatism hence improve stock prices.
This paper suggests that future research should focus on studying the effect of conditional conservatism on
earnings quality. Specifically future studies should examine effects of conditional conservatism on earning
quality proxies such accrual quality, smoothness, persistence and predictability.
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Table 1: Descriptive statistics
Name µ δ ρ50 Kurtosis Skewness Min Max N
titi PEPS ,, / 0.069 0.124 0.0596 228.083 -10.151 -3.175 0.661 2359
tiRET , 0.173 0.789 0.0501 142.975 7.874 -0.969 18.585 2359
tiDR , 0.451 0.498 0 -1.964 0.195 0 1 2359
titi RETDR ,, * -0.136 0.216 0 2.414 -1.747 -0.969 0 2359
tiNPCF ,/ 1.454 7.717 1.0085 225.756 11.177 -56.192 182.512 2359
Notes: Notes: Descriptive statistics of the variables included in this study. N=number of observation,
ρ50=median, µ=mean, δ=standard deviation. =EPS Earnings per share before extraordinary, tiDR ,
= dummy
variable equal to 1 if tiRET , is negative and zero otherwise. 1)1, /)( −−−= tttti PPPRET , NP stand for net profit
before extra ordinary activities, CF stand for cash flow from operation.
Table 2: Pairwise correlation
titi PEPS ,, / tiDR , tiRET , titi RETDR ,, *
titi PEPS ,, / 1
tiDR ,
0.082 1
tiRET ,
-0.099 -0.403 * 1
titi RETDR ,, * 0.058 -0.7143 * 0.3801* 1
Notes: Notes: pair wise correlation coefficient of the variables. ** depicts up to 5% level of significance.
Table 3: Multi-collinearity test results using Variance inflation factor
Variable VIF 1/VIF
tiDR , 2.13 0.469866
titi RETDR ,, * 2.09 0.479428
tiRET , 1.22 0.820195
Mean VIF 1.81
Notes: Multi-collinearity test using Variance inflation factor
Table 4: Heteroskedasticity test results
Breusch-Pagan / Cook-Weisberg test for heteroskedasticity
Ho: Constant variance
Variables: dr06 ret drrto6
chi2(3) = 71.34
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
Notes: This table presents results of heteroskedasticity test using Breusch-Pagan test.
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Table 5: Estimation conditional conservatism
ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, /
Independent
Variable
Coefficient and probability values attached to independent
variables:
No of
observation
Overall R-
square
titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α
0.0813
***
(0.00)
-0.007
(0.302)
-0.0068
**
(0.083)
0.05396
**
(0.001)
2,359 0.0101
Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The
values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and *
represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses
Table 6: Year wise regression for measuring conditional conservatism
ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, /
Independent
Variable
Coefficient and probability values attached to independent
variables:
No of
observation
R-square
titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α
2006 0.074***
(0.00)
0.033**
(0.004)
-0.00626*
(0.069)
0.0789**
(0.001)
337 0.0442
2007 0.088***
(0.00)
-0.035**
(0.002)
-0.0072
(0.102)
0.0175
(0.047)
337 0.0607
2008 0.0973***
(0.00)
-0.02647
(0.174)
-0.023
(0.219)
0.0226
(0.552)
337 0.0088
2009 0.1017
(7.84)
-0.0003**
(0.02)
0.0308
(1)
2.05E-05***
(0.00)
337 0.0125
2010 0.0657***
(0.00)
-0.0351*
(0.063)
-7.4E-05
(0.99)
0.0189
(0.719)
337 0.0299
2011 0.0717
(6.7)
-0.0359
(-2.0)
-0.0142
(-0.78)
0.0213
(0.51)
337 0.0235
2012 0.0643**
(0.026)
0.0409
(0.287)
-3.4E-05
(1.0)
0.2410**
(0.027)
337 0.0297
Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The
values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and *
represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses
Table 7: Impact of conservatism on Earnings quality
ttitititititititi NPCFORETDRRETDRPEPS ψααααα +++++= ,,4,,3,2,10,, /*/
Independent
Variable
Coefficient and probability values attached to independent variables: No of
observation
Overall
R-
square
titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α iti NPCFO ,4 /α
0.0812
***
(0.00)
-0.007
(0.29)
-0.0069
*
(0.082)
0. .053819
**
(0.001)
0. 000211
(0.522)
2,359 0.0102
Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The
values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and *
represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses.
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Conditional conservatism and its effect on earnings quality and stock prices in indian capital market

  • 1. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 98 Conditional Conservatism and its Effect on Earnings Quality and Stock Prices in Indian Capital Market Gregory D. Lyimo Assistant Lecturer, The Institute of Finance Management (IFM) Shaaban Robert Street, P.O.BOX 3918, Dar es salaam, Tanzania *E-mail of corresponding author: gregorylyimo2002@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This study examines conditional conservatism in Indian capital markets and extent to which conditional conservatism affect earnings quality and stock prices. Conservatism principle has been traditionally used in financial reporting for long time it has been dominant accounting principles (Watts 2003). In recent years, the focus of standard setters such is IASB have been less conservative accounting standard. We used secondary data for companies listed in Bombay stock exchange from 2006 to 2012. We employed pooled panel data regression with standard error robust. We find enough evidence to support presence of conditional conservatism during 2006 to 2012 in Indian capital market. We also find that conservatism do not affect the quality of reported earnings, however it influence stock prices. Keywords: Conservatism, earnings quality, returns. 1.0 Introduction In recent years, the quality of reported earnings has become key concern for analyst and investors as it influence resources allocation in capital markets. However, the quality of reported earnings is influenced by standards used to measure and managers discretion in the process of measuring. This has lead to the need to understand the process of measurement of earnings and factors that induce bias in the process of measuring the reported earnings in order to avoid poor allocation of investment in financial markets. It is becoming important for analysts and investors to understand factors that influence the quality of reported earnings so as to avoid losses in trading and maximize their portfolio. Traditionally financial reporting is based on conservatism principle which requires anticipating all possible losses and writes them off in unfavorable period and underestimate gains in favorable period (Penman& Zhang 2002). This principle has been practiced in the past, and it has been influential one over time (Watts 2003). However in recent years, standard setters for example IASB have developed standard which are less conservative in nature in an attempt to reduce conservatism in financial reporting. Studies have documented mixed findings relating to the effect of conservatism on earnings quality and stock prices. On the one hand, Chen et al. (2007) findings suggest that advantage of conservatism is to decrease the level of earnings management. Likewise, Fan & Zhang (2007) suggests that conservatism enhance information quality. On the other hand prior studies have documented negative impact of conservatism on earnings and return. Chen et al. 2013 findings reveal that firms that are more conservatism are associated with poor earnings quality. Specifically their findings suggest that conservatism reduces the persistence of earnings thus making earnings of poor quality. Likewise, Hui et al. (2009) find that more conservative firms release less earnings forecast. Moreover, studies also have associated level of conservatism in financial reporting and legal origin. For example Ball et al. (2000) affirms that companies in common law countries recognize timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries. Likewise, Ball et al. 2003 find that East Asian countries Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia which are common law countries use conditional conservatism in reporting. Furthermore, the level of conditional conservatism has been associated ownership of companies. For example, Ball and Shivakumar (2005) find that conditional conservatism is more in public companies than in private companies. Also, Risberg (2005) reveals that independent firms recognize bad news timelier as compared to firms with pyramid group. So far, the debate on the conservatism is far from been resolved, one side opposing conservatism and other side supporting conservatism. Also studies have shown that legal origin also influences the level of conservatism accounting. Therefore, this study is motivated to examine conditional conservatism in India and the effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality and stock price. This study is important due to three reasons. Fist, India economy is growing faster and is now shifting from industrialized to high-tech services oriented. The concern now is the the ability of financial report to reflect the economy changes as this change results to the increased research and development expenses as well as restructuring charges. The immediately written them off by some companies has increased conservatism. Therefore, conducting this study in India will fill gap in literature. Second, most of studies investigating the effect of conservatism on earnings quality and stock price have done in
  • 2. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 99 developed economies and assume market efficiency (Ball et al. 2000, Penman& Zhang 2002, Ball et al. 2010, and Kim & Pevzner 2010). Therefore conducting this study in emerging market where the level of efficiency of capital market is less than developed economies will provide new insights from emerging market perspective. Third, Ball et al. (2000, 2003) affirms that companies in common law countries recognizes timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries. India is a common law country, which offers unique setting on legal origin to study the trend of conditional conservatism in India over time. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section two discusses the literature review. Section three cover data and methodology. Section four present empirical findings and finally, section five draw the conclusion. 2.0 Literature Review Many studies have investigated the relationship between conditional conservatism and earnings quality. For example, Kim & Pevsner (2010) investigate the relationship between conditional conservatism and future negative surprise in USA from 1973 to 2005. Their findings suggest that conditional conservatism is positively associated with future lower likelihood of bad earnings. Their findings also suggest that conservatism have information benefit to users as it influences stock prices. However, Abedini et al. (2014) examine the level of conservatism and investors reaction to cash stock in Tehran stock exchange. Their finding shows that more conservative firms have negative effect on reaction of investor on cash stock. Moreover, Kazemi et al. (2011) examine the relationship between conservatism and earnings quality. Their findings suggest that there is positive relationship between conservatism and earnings quality measured by persistence, predictability, value relevance and timeliness of earnings. However, Chen et al. (2013) investigate the relationship between conservatism and earnings and find that firms that are more conservatism are associated with poor earnings quality. Their findings suggest that bias induce in earnings by conservatism accounting makes earnings less persistence earnings. Consequently, Gigler and Hemmer (2001) examine the relationship between conservatism and voluntary disclosure. Their findings show that more conservative firms are associated with less voluntary disclosure. Also, Hui et al. (2009) conducted study to examine the relationship between conservatism and management earnings forecast. Their finding show that firm that practice conservative accounting principle releases less earnings forecast Studies have investigated conditional conservatism and earnings quality measured by auditor tenure. For example, Li (2010) study shows that there is negative relationship between conservatism and auditor’s tenure for small firms, however the study reveal positive association between conservatism and auditors tenure for large firms. Likewise Soliman (2014) findings show that there positive relationship between conservatism and auditor tenure. Using a sample of 126,376 firm year observation from 1975 to 2004, Balachandran & Mohanram (2011) investigate the relationship between increased accounting conservatism and value relevance of earnings. Their findings reveal that there is no relationship between increased conservatism and decline in value relevance of earnings. Likewise, Nahandi, & Khanlari, (2012) examine the association between conservatism and information content of earnings. Their finding show non linear relationship between conservatism and information content of earnings. Chen et al. (2007) examine relationship between earnings quality measured by earnings management and conservatism. Their findings show that conservative accounting improves earnings quality by reducing earnings management. Likewise Fan & Zhang (2012) examines the relationship between conservatism and information efficiency. Their finding suggests that conservative firms are associated with improved information quality. Using conservatism score (CS) as measure of conservatism, Penman & Zhang (2002) findings reveal that poor earnings are associated with more conservatism accounting. Also their finding reveals that stock prices do not react to earnings quality of firm that practice more conservative accounting. Likewise Lagor (2008) investigate the relationship between conservatism and restatement announcement. The findings show that conditional conservatism increases following restatement announcement. Also the findings reveal that conditional increased more for firm with debt and compensation contracting which are significant. The evidence presented so far show mixed findings; some opposing conservatism and other supporting conservative as it enhance better earnings quality and influence stock prices. This mixed finding is what makes this study unique to investigate conservatism trend in India and its effect on earnings quality and stock price in India stock market. 3.0 Hypothesis, Methodology and Data 3.1Hypothesis We proposed two research hypothesis stated in alternative in investigating conservatism accounting in India and its effect to earnings quality and stock prices. Since Ball et al. (2000) affirms that companies in common law countries recognize timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries. We state our first
  • 3. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 100 hypothesis in alternative form as given below. 1H : Firms in India use conservatism accounting in financial reporting. Prior studies have documented that conservatism accounting is negatively related both earnings quality and stock prices (Penman & Zhang 2002, Paek et al. 2007 and Abedini, et al. 2014). We form our second hypothesis stated in alternative as shown below. 2H : Conservatism has negative impact on earnings quality and stock price. 3.2Methodology We employed quantitative research methods to study conditional conservatism trend in India and its effect on both earnings quality and stock prices. Our study follow model proposed by Basu 1997 to investigate conditional conservatism in India and its effect on stock price as given in equation one. ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, / (1) Where; =tiEPS , Earnings per share before extraordinary for firm i for year t =tiP, Price at the end of year for firm i for year t 1)1, /)( −−−= tttti PPPRET =tiDR , Dummy variable equal to 1 if tiRET , is negative and zero otherwise =ti,ψ Error term Similar with prior studies the extent of conservatism is measured by the asymmetric timeline coefficient ( 3α ) (Basu 1997, Ismail & Elbolok 2011). When 3α >0 and it is statistically significance indicates that bad news are recognized more quickly that good news thus firms uses conservatism accounting. We also follow extended Basu (1997) model proposed by Ismail & Elbolok (2011) to examine the effect of conservatism on earnings quality as indicated on equation two. ttitititititititi NPCFORETDRRETDRPEPS ψααααα +++++= ,,4,,3,2,10,, /*/ (2) Where =tiCFO , Cash flow from operation for firm i in year t =tiNP, Net profit before extra ordinary activities for firm i for year t 3.3 Sample section The study used secondary data extracted from Prowess database that is maintained by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. Our sample size initial was comprised of 500 companies listed in BSE 500. However, we reduced companies with missing information for computing key variables thus reduced our sample to 337 companies with 2,359 firm year observations. Our sample period is seven spinning from 2006 to 2012. 4.0 Empirical results 4.1 Descriptive statistics Table 1 present the results of descriptive statistics for our variables. The mean (median) value of earning per scaled by beginnings stock price is 0.069 (0.0596). The mean (median) value of return is 0.173 (0.0501) while the mean (median) value of earnings quality measured by cash flow from operation scaled by net profit is 1.454 (1.0085). 4.2 Pairwise Correlation Table 2 reports pairwise correlation among our variables. Returns ( tiRET , ) is significance negatively related to negative return ( tiDR , ) at 5% level of significance. We also find there positive significance correlation between return ( tiRET , ) and titi RETDR ,, * at 5% level of significance. Moreover, there is significance negative relationship between tiDR , and titi RETDR ,, * at 5% level of significance. 4.3Results of Heteroskedasticity test, Multi-co linearity test, and Outliers We report our results of tests and regression estimation in this section. Table 3 report the results of multi- collinearity test. We employed variance inflation factors to determine whether there is problem of multi- collinearity among our independent variables. We obtained variance inflation factor values of 2.13, 2.09 and
  • 4. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 101 1.22 which are far away from the cut-off value of 10 (Hair, et al 1995, Gujarat 2003). Therefore our independent variables are free from problem of multi-collinearity. Table 4 presents the results of heteroskedasticity test. We employed Breusch-Pagan test and obtained chi-square value of 71.34 which is far beyond the chi-square value of 3.84. We therefore, rejected the null hypotheses of constant variance. To alleviate the problem of heteroskedasticity we employed pooled OLS with standard error robust using STATA statistical package (Thompson 2011). We also winsorized all our variables at 99% and 1%, to alleviate the problem of extreme observations that might have influence on our study similar with prior studies (Francis et al 2004). Out of 2,359 firm year observations 24 observations in this paper are winsorized. 4.3.1 Pooled Regression Results and Discussion This part reports the results of regression for whole sample and year basis regression results on asymmetric timelines and also we report the effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality and stock prices. Table 5 reports the results of estimation of conditional conservatism. We employed Basu 1997 model and find that asymmetric timelines coefficient ( 3α = 0.0539, p<0.05). This evidence supports our first hypothesis that firms in India uses conservatism accounting. We also find that earnings are sensitive to bad news at 1.97 times ( 121 /)( ααα + as compared to sensitivity to good news. Table 6 report conditional conservatism values of our full sample from 2006 to 2012 in year basis. We find that in each year the asymmetric timeliness coefficient is greater than zero ( 3α >0) that indicates the presence of conservatism yearly in India. In year 2006 the asymmetric timeliness is 0.0789, p <0.05, likewise in 2007 the asymmetric timeliness coefficient is 0.0175, p <0.05. We also find that the coefficient of asymmetric timeliness is 0.00002, p <0.01 in 2009. Moreover in 2012 we find the asymmetric timeliness coefficient of 0.2410, p<0.05. However, we find insignificant asymmetric timeliness coefficient in 2008, 2010, 2011. Therefore, on average our year basis results from 2006 to 2012 suggest presence of conditional conservatism in India. Also our results suggest that there is negative relationship between stock price and conditional conservatism. As conditional conservatism increases stock price tends to fall. Table 7 presents the result of effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality. We employed model developed by Ismail & Elbolok 2011 to examine the effect of conservatism on earnings. We find that there is no significant relationship between conservatism and earnings quality ( 4α =0.000215, p>0.1). Therefore, presence of conservatism does not influence earnings quality in India. The overall findings show prevalence of conservatism in India. The findings also reveal that the level of sensitivity of earnings to bad news in India is 1.97 times as compared to positive return. However, this level of sensitivity to bad news is low as compared to sensitivity of 5.69 reported in Egypt capital markets by Ismail & Elbolok (2011). We also collectively find that conditional conservatism do not influence earnings quality, however it influence stock prices in Indian stock market. 5.0 Conclusion We examine conditional conservatism in context of Indian stock market and extent to which conditional conservatism affect both stock prices and earnings quality. Conservatism principle has been traditionally been used in financial reporting and it has been influential principle over time (Watts 2003). We specifically investigated whether financial markets in India reflect more bad news timely than good news and extent to this affect the quality of earnings. Our evidence suggests that financial markets reflect more bad news than good news ( 3α =0.0539, p<0.05). We find that earnings are sensitive to bad news at 1.97 ( 121 /)( ααα + as compared to sensitivity to good news. Our evidence support Ball et al. 2000 findings that firms in common law countries recognize timely bad news than good news as compared to code law countries. We also find that conditional conservatism do not affect the quality of reported earnings, however it influence stock prices. Our findings have implication to regulators to develop or adopt accounting standard that reduces or eliminate conservatism hence improve stock prices. This paper suggests that future research should focus on studying the effect of conditional conservatism on earnings quality. 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  • 6. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 103 Table 1: Descriptive statistics Name µ δ ρ50 Kurtosis Skewness Min Max N titi PEPS ,, / 0.069 0.124 0.0596 228.083 -10.151 -3.175 0.661 2359 tiRET , 0.173 0.789 0.0501 142.975 7.874 -0.969 18.585 2359 tiDR , 0.451 0.498 0 -1.964 0.195 0 1 2359 titi RETDR ,, * -0.136 0.216 0 2.414 -1.747 -0.969 0 2359 tiNPCF ,/ 1.454 7.717 1.0085 225.756 11.177 -56.192 182.512 2359 Notes: Notes: Descriptive statistics of the variables included in this study. N=number of observation, ρ50=median, µ=mean, δ=standard deviation. =EPS Earnings per share before extraordinary, tiDR , = dummy variable equal to 1 if tiRET , is negative and zero otherwise. 1)1, /)( −−−= tttti PPPRET , NP stand for net profit before extra ordinary activities, CF stand for cash flow from operation. Table 2: Pairwise correlation titi PEPS ,, / tiDR , tiRET , titi RETDR ,, * titi PEPS ,, / 1 tiDR , 0.082 1 tiRET , -0.099 -0.403 * 1 titi RETDR ,, * 0.058 -0.7143 * 0.3801* 1 Notes: Notes: pair wise correlation coefficient of the variables. ** depicts up to 5% level of significance. Table 3: Multi-collinearity test results using Variance inflation factor Variable VIF 1/VIF tiDR , 2.13 0.469866 titi RETDR ,, * 2.09 0.479428 tiRET , 1.22 0.820195 Mean VIF 1.81 Notes: Multi-collinearity test using Variance inflation factor Table 4: Heteroskedasticity test results Breusch-Pagan / Cook-Weisberg test for heteroskedasticity Ho: Constant variance Variables: dr06 ret drrto6 chi2(3) = 71.34 Prob > chi2 = 0.0000 Notes: This table presents results of heteroskedasticity test using Breusch-Pagan test.
  • 7. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2014 104 Table 5: Estimation conditional conservatism ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, / Independent Variable Coefficient and probability values attached to independent variables: No of observation Overall R- square titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α 0.0813 *** (0.00) -0.007 (0.302) -0.0068 ** (0.083) 0.05396 ** (0.001) 2,359 0.0101 Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and * represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses Table 6: Year wise regression for measuring conditional conservatism ttitititititi RETDRRETDRPEPS ψαααα ++++= ,,3,2,10,, / Independent Variable Coefficient and probability values attached to independent variables: No of observation R-square titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α 2006 0.074*** (0.00) 0.033** (0.004) -0.00626* (0.069) 0.0789** (0.001) 337 0.0442 2007 0.088*** (0.00) -0.035** (0.002) -0.0072 (0.102) 0.0175 (0.047) 337 0.0607 2008 0.0973*** (0.00) -0.02647 (0.174) -0.023 (0.219) 0.0226 (0.552) 337 0.0088 2009 0.1017 (7.84) -0.0003** (0.02) 0.0308 (1) 2.05E-05*** (0.00) 337 0.0125 2010 0.0657*** (0.00) -0.0351* (0.063) -7.4E-05 (0.99) 0.0189 (0.719) 337 0.0299 2011 0.0717 (6.7) -0.0359 (-2.0) -0.0142 (-0.78) 0.0213 (0.51) 337 0.0235 2012 0.0643** (0.026) 0.0409 (0.287) -3.4E-05 (1.0) 0.2410** (0.027) 337 0.0297 Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and * represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses Table 7: Impact of conservatism on Earnings quality ttitititititititi NPCFORETDRRETDRPEPS ψααααα +++++= ,,4,,3,2,10,, /*/ Independent Variable Coefficient and probability values attached to independent variables: No of observation Overall R- square titi PEPS ,, / 0α tiDR ,1α tiRET,2α titi RETDR ,,3 *α iti NPCFO ,4 /α 0.0812 *** (0.00) -0.007 (0.29) -0.0069 * (0.082) 0. .053819 ** (0.001) 0. 000211 (0.522) 2,359 0.0102 Notes: This represents results of pooled OLS regression using standard error (clustered by firm and year). The values presented in parentheses represent the probability values attached to the coefficient. ***, ** and * represent levels of significance at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively according to two tailed hypotheses.
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