Nowadays, it is emphasized that the basic objective of accounting is to provide information about business enterprise that is useful useful to financial statement users, particularly owners and creditors in making economic decisions. Nonetheless, the ...
Nowadays, it is emphasized that the basic objective of accounting is to provide information about business enterprise that is useful useful to financial statement users, particularly owners and creditors in making economic decisions. Nonetheless, the importance of information for efficient resource allocation in capital markets would seem beyond question.
The purpose of this study is to empirically test impacts of accounting changes on stock prices, so that we can evaluate the usefulness of information about accounting change. This study examines the relationship of accounting changes of enterprises with their stock prices.
The results of this study support that semi-strong form efficient market hypothesis is not accepted in the Korean stock markets. These results can be obtained by analyzing the CAR graphs and these CAR graphs show a remarkable behavior difference between prior and posterior periods to change date.