The above two lines of research suggest that enhanced corporate disclosures may
benefit a firm in many ways; however, managers wishing to retain the flexibility to
engage in earnings management may have incentives to limit the disclosure. To the
extent that disclosure of governance practice may reduce information asymmetry and
enable board and investors to effectively monitor management decisions and
performance, we predict that a better quality of disclosures on governance practice is
associated with a higher quality of earnings. Hence:
H4. Firms with higher quality of corporate governance disclosures have less
abnormal accruals and more informative earnings.