The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts

Using a random sample of 140 China’s listed companies, we show an adverse impact of related party (RP) sales of goods and services on the usefulness of accounting earnings to investors and on earnings forecasts by financial analysts. Consistent with the contention that RP sales may violate the arm’s...

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Main Authors: WANG, Jiwei, Aharony, Joseph, YUAN, Hongqi
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soa_research-12252010-09-22T09:12:05Z The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts WANG, Jiwei Aharony, Joseph YUAN, Hongqi Using a random sample of 140 China’s listed companies, we show an adverse impact of related party (RP) sales of goods and services on the usefulness of accounting earnings to investors and on earnings forecasts by financial analysts. Consistent with the contention that RP sales may violate the arm’s-length assumption of regular transactions and consequently deteriorate the representational faithfulness and verifiability of accounting data, we find that earnings of firms engaged in RP sales are at least 33% less informative after controlling for known factors that may affect earnings informativeness. We also find that financial analysts behave credulously and provide less accurate and more optimistic earnings forecasts for firms with more RP sales. Overall, our results provide strong empirical evidence on the negative impact of 2007-08-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/226 Research Collection School Of Accountancy eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Accounting Asian Studies Corporate Finance
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Asian Studies
Corporate Finance
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Asian Studies
Corporate Finance
WANG, Jiwei
Aharony, Joseph
YUAN, Hongqi
The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
description Using a random sample of 140 China’s listed companies, we show an adverse impact of related party (RP) sales of goods and services on the usefulness of accounting earnings to investors and on earnings forecasts by financial analysts. Consistent with the contention that RP sales may violate the arm’s-length assumption of regular transactions and consequently deteriorate the representational faithfulness and verifiability of accounting data, we find that earnings of firms engaged in RP sales are at least 33% less informative after controlling for known factors that may affect earnings informativeness. We also find that financial analysts behave credulously and provide less accurate and more optimistic earnings forecasts for firms with more RP sales. Overall, our results provide strong empirical evidence on the negative impact of
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author WANG, Jiwei
Aharony, Joseph
YUAN, Hongqi
author_facet WANG, Jiwei
Aharony, Joseph
YUAN, Hongqi
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title The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
title_short The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
title_full The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
title_fullStr The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Related Party Sales by Listed Chinese Firms on Earnings Informativeness and Analysts Forecasts
title_sort impact of related party sales by listed chinese firms on earnings informativeness and analysts forecasts
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2007
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/226
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