Meyer (2007) Accounting plays a significant role within the concept of generating and communicating wealth of companies. Financial statements still remain the most important source of externally feasible information on companies. In spite of their widespread use and continuing advance, there is some concern that accounting practice has not kept pace with rapid economic and high technology changes which in invariably affects the value relevance of accounting information.
The importance of Meyer’s assertion is reinforced by massive accounting fraud in developed countries especially US, rapidly changing business environment and reports by some researchers that value relevance of accounting information has declined (Lev and Zarowin, 1999 and Francis and Schipper, 1999).
However, a number of researchers claim that accounting information has not lost its value relevance (Vieru, Perttunen and Schadewitz, 2005 and Collins, Maydew and Weiss, 1997).