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Loan Sales and Borrowers’ Accounting Conservatism

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  • Saiying Deng
  • Yutao Li
  • Gerald J. Lobo
  • Pei Shao

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We examine whether initial loan sales in the secondary loan market relate to borrowing firms’ accounting conservatism. We find that borrowing firms exhibit a significant decline in accounting conservatism after the initial loan sales. We show that the decline in borrower conservatism is more pronounced for firms that borrow from lenders with lower monitoring incentives and for firms that have lower incentives to supply conservatism. The baseline results are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests. Collectively, we provide corroborative evidence that lead lenders’ monitoring incentives enforce accounting conservatism in the private debt market, and that lead lenders play a more prominent role than secondary loan market participants in shaping corporate (conservative) reporting. Les auteurs s'interrogent sur l'existence d'un lien entre les ventes de prêts initiaux sur le marché secondaire des prêts et la prudence comptable des sociétés emprunteuses. Ils constatent que la prudence comptable des sociétés emprunteuses décline sensiblement après la vente de prêts initiaux. Ils montrent que ce déclin est plus marqué dans le cas de sociétés qui empruntent auprès de prêteurs dont la propension à la surveillance est plus faible et de sociétés qui sont moins enclines à privilégier la prudence dans la communication de l'information. Les résultats de base résistent à une batterie de tests de sensibilité. Dans l'ensemble, les données que recueillent les auteurs corroborent le fait que la propension à la surveillance des prêteurs chefs de file engendre la prudence comptable sur le marché des prêts privés et que les prêteurs chefs de file jouent un rôle plus déterminant que celui des intervenants du marché secondaire des prêts dans le modelage des principes d'information financière (prudente) par les sociétés.

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  • Saiying Deng & Yutao Li & Gerald J. Lobo & Pei Shao, 2018. "Loan Sales and Borrowers’ Accounting Conservatism," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(2), pages 1166-1194, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:2:p:1166-1194
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12408
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    1. Zhou, Fuzhao & Shao, Pei & Xie, Feixue & Huang, Jianning, 2023. "The governance role of lender monitoring: Evidence from Borrowers' tax planning," Advances in accounting, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

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