A separated analysis for reflecting
preparer incentives distinguishes between firms that adopted IFRS for simplifying
financial report process and the others. In the former group reporting quality
deteriorates, after IFRS adoption, both in terms of abnormal accruals and all our
timely loss recognition proxies whereas reporting quality remains unchanged from
timely loss recognition point of view for the latter group of firms. Our findings
show that a change in accounting standards per se does not imply different
financial reporting quality, measured in term of earnings quality. The
consequences of IFRS adoption depend on factors reflecting preparer incentives
(Pope and McLeay, 2011).