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Assessment of the Comparative Ability of Accounting Bases in Predicting Future Cash Flows: Evidence from Nigeria

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Title Assessment of the Comparative Ability of Accounting Bases in Predicting Future Cash Flows: Evidence from Nigeria
 
Creator Frank, Ebiaghan Orits; DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY ABRAKA, NIGERIA
 
Subject Accounting Bases, accounting information, accrual accounting, cash accounting, cash-flows predictions
JEL CLASSIFICATION: M40,M41,M49
 
Description Purpose of the article: This study examines the comparative abilities of accrual-based and cash-based accounting information to predict future operating cash flows with particular focus on quoted Nigerian non-financial companies. Secondary data were utilized for the study and were extracted from published annual statements and accounts of eighty (80) quoted firms in Nigeria between 2005–2015.
Methodology/methods: Data collected were statistically analysed with the aid of the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method, correlation analysis, variance inflation factor (VIF) tests for multicollinearity, and the Breusch-Pagan/Cook Weisberg test for heteroscedasticity. 5% level of the test of significance was employed to measure the degree of statistical relationship between stated variables.
Scientific aim: This research is aimed at empirically ascertaining, by means of available statistics, the comparative predictive abilities of accrual-based and cash-based accounting information in forecasting future cash flows for quoted non-financial companies in the Nigerian stock exchange.
Findings: It has been revealed in this study that historical earnings data prepared under the accrual-basis possessed superior predictive ability over operating cash flows data in forecasting future cash flows of quoted non-financial firms in Nigeria.
Conclusions: Company management who are saddled with the responsibility of preparation and presentation of financial statements as part of their management responsibility should, as a matter of utmost priority, uphold integrity and transparency by adhering strictly to the provisions of accounting standards so as to enhance reliability and decision-usefulness of financial disclosures with a view to improving the predictive ability of accounting information.
 
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Date 2018-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://trends.fbm.vutbr.cz/index.php/trends/article/view/trends.2018.32.35.
10.13164/trends.2018.32.35.
 
Source TRENDY EKONOMIKY A MANAGEMENTU; Vol 12, No 32 (2018); 35-48
Trends Economics and Management; Vol 12, No 32 (2018); 35-48
2336-6508
1802-8527
 
Language eng
 
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