The authors also find that ‘borrowers whose pre-IFRS financial reporting deviates more from IFRS experience a greater reduction in accounting-based financial covenants, but a greater increase in collateral provisions’. In addition, ‘borrowers who suffer deterioration in accounting quality after mandatory IFRS adoption experience a greater increase in interest rates [and] collateral provisions …, as well as a greater decrease in the use of counting based financial covenants.’