Ratna Wardhani
Faculty Of Economics And Business, Universitas Indonesia

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Journal : The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research

The Effect of Degree of Convergence to IFRS and Governance System to Accounting Conservatism: Evidence From Asia RATNA WARDHANI
The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research Vol 13, No 3 (2010): IJAR September 2010
Publisher : The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33312/ijar.227

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Motivated by increasing pressure for full convergence to IFRS, I investigate the effect of degree of convergence from local standards to IFRS on accounting conservatism. I also examine the impact of governance system, both at country and firm level, on conservatism. This research's sample covers a number of East and South East Asia countries: Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines,Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. This study concludes that the degree of convergence positively affects accounting conservatism. Governance system, both at country level and firm level, also has positive influence on accounting conservatism. Interestingly, the influence of the extent of convergence of local GAAP to IFRS and corporate governance practice on conservatism is stronger for companies in countries with weak investor protection. In addition, I find that the adoption of international standards will increase accounting conservatism in companies with weak corporate governance practice.
The Effect of Related and Unrelated Diversifications of Capital Structure Policy: Evidence from Indonesia RATNA WARDHANI; ADE SOBRINA HASIBUAN
The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research Vol 14, No 2 (2011): IJAR May 2011
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33312/ijar.239

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The objective of this research is to analyze the role of related and unrelated diversification of listed firms in Indonesia on capital structure decision, using 78 Indonesian companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange between 2002 and 2007 as samples and panel data methodology. The result shows that, in general, diversification positively affects firms’ leverage. This result also applies to unrelated diversification strategy, where firms with unrelated diversification strategy are inclined to see an increase in the level of firm leverage; in other words, unrelated diversification has a positive effect on debt as a source of finance. Therefore, capital structure decisions of unrelated diversified firms seem to be strictly aimed at reaching their optimal debt level target and are consistent with the static trade off hypothesis. However the relation between related diversification strategy and a firm’s capital structure cannot be proven in this study due to the possibility that such strategy will require less investment costs.