Assessment of Financial Reporting Quality: Theoretical Background

Lovinska Liudmyla and Kucheriava Maria

A chapter in The New Digital Era: Other Emerging Risks and Opportunities, 2022, vol. 109B, pp 141-150 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Introduction: In the context of globalisation processes, the necessity to create appropriate information support for management decisions at various levels becomes increasingly important: at the international, national and enterprise levels. The source of such data is financial reporting. The last leads to increase attention from key users (investors, lenders, other users) to the reliability and quality of financial reporting data. The study of scientific literature and best foreign practices made it possible to identify problems of the theoretical, organisational and methodological background of preparing high-quality financial statements and their assessment, particularly the lack of a unified interpretation of the financial reporting quality concept. The necessity to identify a theoretical basis for assessing financial reporting quality has led to the relevance of this study. Aim: Scientific substantiation and improvement of theoretical provisions of methodology development for financial reporting quality assessment. Methods used within the study are the following: Analysis, synthesis, operational approach, bibliographic analysis, generalisation. Findings: The application of an operational approach to the formulation of the definition of financial reporting quality has made it possible to create the basis for its assessment. This approach involves descriptions of the principles of clarity and uniformity. The authors define the concept of ‘financial reporting quality’, formulating the theoretical principles for financial reporting assessment as the process of establishing compliance of financial statements with a specific list of qualitative characteristics.

Keywords: Quality of financial reporting; quality; assessment; globalisation; reporting; operational approach; M41; M49; M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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