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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Accounting provides a vital service to broad and diverse users. Investors use financial accounting information for investment decisions, governments agencies need it particularly for tax purposes while regulatory agencies use it to determine whether existing statutory pronouncement are complied with, among others (Kajola and Adedeji, 1999). According to Mayer (2007:2) “Accounting plays a significant role within the concept of generating and communicating ...

Abstract The paper examines the value relevance of IFRS reconciliation adjustments made by listed Nigerian deposit money banks (DMBs) following the mandatory adoption of IFRS as the national accounting standards effective 1, January 2012. Using the IFRS reconciliation adjustments disclosed in the 2012 annual reports of DMBs and adopting the Ohlson (1995) price model, the study fails to find evidence that the IFRS reconciliation adjustments are value relevant. The paper argues that investors see ...

Abstract Globalisation, capital market crash and the Enron’scase led the accounting profession to insist on the need for a single set of high quality reporting standards. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) were first adopted in 2005 by EU countries while Nigeria agreed to adopt in 2012. The question is: How does IFRS adoption improve the value relevance of accounting information? Several studies have explored the value relevance of IFRS adoption;however, ...