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Firm Structural Characteristics and Financial Reporting Quality of Listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

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  • Olumide A. Olowokure
  • Muhammad Tanko
  • Terzungwe Nyor

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The quality of financial report is very crucial as published financial reports remains, for the most part, the only means by which outside shareholders and investors keep themselves informed about the performance of the firm. In the present economic scenario, this concern for financial reporting quality becomes more acute as emerging market economies and more importantly mono economies like Nigeria face greater uncertainties as they combat the challenges of unprecedented fall in oil prices. In addition to this, the suspension of the CEO, Chairman and two other directors of Stambic IBTC bank by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria for filling a misleading financial statement for 2013 and 2014 has also shown that the issue of financial reporting quality cannot be overemphasized. Using secondary data from the published reports of thirteen listed deposit money banks in Nigeria for over a period of ten years between 2005 and 2014, this paper seeks to find the determinants of financial reporting quality and reports the findings of the impact of structural characteristics like age, size and level of leverage on financial reporting quality. Using prio studies as a guide, we developed a model for loan loss provisions and generated the residuals, using these residuals know as abnormal loan loss provisions as the dependent variable for the multiple regression analysis, the study did not find any evidence of significant relationship between firm age, size, leverage and financial reporting quality.

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  • Olumide A. Olowokure & Muhammad Tanko & Terzungwe Nyor, 2016. "Firm Structural Characteristics and Financial Reporting Quality of Listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(1), pages 106-122, January.
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    Keywords

    structural characteristics; loan loss provisions; abnormal loan loss provisions; financial reporting quality; leverage;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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