The main reason for the suggestion of a link between accounting standards, legal framework and quality of financial reporting is that more enforcement and prosecution of companies that do not comply should lead to more compliance which then leads to the provision of better quality financial information (e.g. Sunder, 1997; Kothari, 2000). Hope (2003) used a sample of firms from 22 countries to investigate whether enforcement of accounting standards is associated with higher forecast accuracy by financial analysts.