Evaluation of the Effects of Corporate Governance on Financial Reporting Quality

Corporate governance is designed to stimulate the investment environment and to create a stable financial situation in the capital markets by increasing the level of reliability, transparency, and accountability at the firm level. This study aims to examine whether corporate governance leads to higher quality financial reporting. This research has been performed using companies listed on Borsa İstanbul (BIST). For this purpose, two samples from the publicly held companies on BIST, which are included in the Corporate Governance Index and which are not included in this index, have been formed. Thus, we examined whether there is any difference between the financial reporting quality of the companies listed in Borsa İstanbul Corporate Governance Index and the financial reporting quality of the enterprises that are not included in this index. Since the quality of financial reporting is a multi-dimensional concept, it can be evaluated by different measurement methods focusing on different dimensions in the literature. One of these approaches used to measure the quality of financial reporting is the quality of earnings. The evaluation of the financial reporting quality of the enterprises included in the BIST Corporate Governance Index and the enterprises not included in the index were evaluated through different methods to compare two different samples in the context of the earnings quality approach. Panel data analysis was used to evaluate the financial reporting quality of the two samples by means of earnings quality methods. The data related to the models used in the assessment of financial reporting quality were obtained from the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) and Equity RT database. The research covers 72 enterprises, 36 of which are in the Corporate Governance Index and 36 of which are not in the Corporate Governance Index.