The effect of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on foreign portfolio investment in Africa

Matthew Olubayo Omotoso, Daniël Petrus Schutte and Merwe Oberholzer

South African Journal of Accounting Research, 2022, vol. 36, issue 1, 57-79

Abstract: The adoption and implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are anticipated to enhance the quality and credibility of financial statement in terms of reliability, transparency and comparability. Consequently, it presupposes improving the functioning of the capital market and influence foreign investments to flow into adopting countries. This study examines the effect of the adoption of IFRS on foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in Africa. Annual FPI data from the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position from 1994 to 2015 were employed. The panel data regression considered fixed-effects and random-effects models. Besides, the system generalised method of moments estimator is employed for the robustness of the model and to address the problem of endogeneity. In correspondence with the decision-usefulness theory, our findings indicate that FPI is promoted in the African countries that apply IFRS-based financial statement. The adoption of IFRS is assumed to be an informational change that would eliminate information barriers facing the users of financial statements. Therefore, the development of IFRS is aimed at improving the usefulness of financial reporting by facilitating the comparability and reliability of financial information in African countries. This will influence foreign investors to shift their capital to such an economy, consequently increasing the inflow of FPI.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/10291954.2021.1909940

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