{"title":"Optimal Accounting Policies Under Financial Constraints: Aggressive Versus Conservative","authors":"Masatomo Akita, Y. Osaki","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1782602","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We examine how severity of financial constraints influences firms' choices of accounting policies. This paper shows that firms with mild financial constraints choose an aggressive accounting policy and those with severe financial constraints choose a conservative accounting policy.","PeriodicalId":340291,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Intertemporal Firm Choice & Growth","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ERN: Intertemporal Firm Choice & Growth","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1782602","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We examine how severity of financial constraints influences firms' choices of accounting policies. This paper shows that firms with mild financial constraints choose an aggressive accounting policy and those with severe financial constraints choose a conservative accounting policy.