The quality of financial reporting in China: An examination from an accounting restatement perspective

This study uses restatements to reveal the poor quality of past accounting information reported within China’s capital market. We show that up to a quarter of listed firms in mainland China explicitly admitted the poor quality of their financial information by restating their previous financial repo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xia Wang, Min Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-12-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309111000268