H1: Separate financial statements are incrementally value-relevant relative to consolidated financial
statements. As a consequence, the estimated coefficients on the reconciliation adjustments of book
value and net income from consolidated to separate financial statements are expected to be
significantly different from zero.
This research focuses on the book value of equity and net income as they are key drivers in firm
valuation (Feltham and Ohlson 1995, 1996; Ohlson 1999, 2000). Following Ohlson (1995), the basic
model for testing the first hypothesis