재무제표 비교가능성에 영향을 미치는 산업특성

This study examines the effect of industry characteristics on financial statement comparability. While some studies suggest that industry effect exists on financial statement reporting, it is generally ignored or partially controlled by including industry fixed effects on regression models. Thus, our study investigates the impact of industry characteristics (i.e. homogeneity of operating expense or industry competition) on financial statement comparability. It is intuitively predictable that firms will produce comparable financial statements in homogeneous industries. Also, we expect positive relation between financial statement comparability and industry competition. It is because managerial motives to consider other firms’ financial information in reporting financial statement are expected to increase in competitive industries. We use proxy for industry homogeneity based on client firms’ operating cost structures following Cairney and Young (2006). Industry competition is measured by Herfindahl index. Finally, financial statement comparability is measured by following De Franco et al.(2011). Using a sample of 5,228 firm－year observations between 2008 and 2013, our results indicate that financial statements between two firms are more comparable when they operate in homogeneous industries or competitive industries. Furthermore, our results are robust to three different financial statement comparability proxies. Lastly, the effects of the magnitude of accruals or the adoption of K－IFRS do not derive our results.