내부회계관리제도의 효과적인 운영과 회계정보의 비교가능성

This study examines the association between the effectiveness of Internal Control over Financial Reporting (hereafter, ICFR) and financial statement comparability (hereafter, Comparability). For empirical testing, I measure the degree of effective ICFR operation in consideration of the relative extent of human resource investment for ICFR and measure the Comparability by the De Franco et al. (2011) model, targeting either the KSE or KOSDAQ listed firms from 2006 to 2010. As the empirical results, the firms effectively operating ICFR have a higher level of Comparability. In other words, there exists a positive relationship between the effective ICFR operation and Comparability. I also conduct the several robustness check on the analysis and I find that the results of this paper are robust to these additional analyses. This result implies that Comparability is influenced by the effectiveness of ICFR. This study investigates the relationship between the effective ICFR operation and Comparability, and empirically proves to ICFR’s significant influence on the qualitative characteristics. This study will help information users in identifying the level of Comparability. Therefore, on account of laying out logical and distinctive evidence for the ICFR’s influence and role, the results of this study provide an insight into the usefulness of ICFR and Comparability related research.