Accounting comparability and cash holdings in Vietnam

Artikel

The management of cash requires careful considerations to allow firms to benefit from proper resource allocations while mitigating agency issues. Accounting comparability can play an important role in tackling information asymmetry and agency cost, thus enabling managers to hoard more cash. This research aims to investigate the link between accounting comparability and cash holdings in an emerging market. Using a sample of listed firms in Vietnam from 2010 to 2019 and System Generalized Method of Moments, the study finds that comparability is positively associated with corporate cash holdings, confirming the value of the former as an effective governance mechanism. Additionally, we find a non-linear impact of comparability on cash holdings; in other words, comparability specifically enhances cash holdings for firms with high levels of comparability. We further document that cash holdings improve firm performance only for firms with high levels of comparability. Such evidence implies that only firms with high levels of financial statement comparability show commitment to tackle agency cost and information asymmetry.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: International Journal of Financial Studies ; ISSN: 2227-7072 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-14 ; Basel: MDPI

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: accounting comparability ; agency cost ; cash holdings ; information asymmetry

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nguyen Liem Thanh ; Nguyen Khuong Vinh
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): MDPI
• (wo): Basel
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.3390/ijfs9020027
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/257772
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ