Although many countries have adopted IFRS on a mandatory basis, there is likely variation in the effect of IFRS adoption on earnings’ information content that depends on institutional differences across countries. Following our discussion above, we predict that the information content of earnings increased in IFRS countries where there is sufficient legal enforcement to ensure that the financial reporting requirements of IFRS are actually met. Thus, using the random sample approach on firm-level data, within mandatory IFRS adoption countries, we test whether the change in the information content of earnings following IFRS adoption is greater