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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (IFRS) AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA

Susan Nkemdilim Roberts
Published 19 February 2025
Vol. 11, No. 1 (2023)
pp. 85-96
CC BY 4.0
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    Susan Nkemdilim Roberts
    Professor of Accounting and Financial Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, edfordshire, United Kingdom
    GB

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is considered a way of attracting Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), improving comparability in financial reporting, reducing information asymmetries and cost for foreign investors. The effect of regulatory quality is found as an incentive for quality of accounting information, which is of great importance to accounting educators and compliance to the IFRS by firms. Using the fixed effect model for the regression and a sample of 45 countries in Africa, we find that compliance of IFRS has a positive impact on the flow of FDIs. We also established that regulatory quality is an incentive for compliance to IFRS standards. The results which are very useful to managers of education (teachers of accounting education), show that IFRS compliance by African countries will boost the flow of FDIs by increasing comparability. Improving regulatory quality will further strengthen the effect of IFRS compliance as well as enhance transparency.

JournalEconomics and Social Policy Research Journal
ISSN3065-0550
Volume / IssueVol. 11, No. 1 (2023)
Pages85-96
Published19 February 2025
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LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Roberts, S. (2025). INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (IFRS) AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA. Economics and Social Policy Research Journal, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 85-96

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