Astami and Tower (2006) investigated four key accounting policy disclosures in the 2000/2001 annual reports of 442 listed companies in the Asia-Pacific region. The results of their study indicate that companies that pursue income-increasing accounting techniques in their aggregate accounting policies are characterised by lower financial leverage, lower owner concentration, and higher investment opportunity sets. Furthermore, they provided empirical evidence that the variations of management’s choice of accounting policies can be explained by the country of reporting as well as certain firm specific variables. Their findings differ from those of studies done in developed countries (Cullinan and Knoblett, 1994; Bowen et al., 1995; Missonier, 2004), which have reported that highly levered firms pursue accounting policies that accelerate the reporting of income.