Factors affecting on earnings quality and the relationship between earning quality and dividend payment of listed companies in the stock exchange of Thailand
Abstract:
This research aims at studying factors affecting on earnings quality oflisted companies
in the Stock Exchange ofThailand. Six of firm characteristics employed in this study ar capital
struchrre, firm value, corporate govemance, liquidity, cash flow from operation and size ofaudit
firm. Researcher measures eamings quality by using accrual index in accordance with Richardson
et al., 2001. Samples are listed companies in the Stock Exchange ofThailand during year
2014-2018, excluding firms in finance sector.
The results find that liquidity is positively related to eamings quality measured by
accrual index. Therefore, high liquidity firms have low quality of eamings. Moreover, the results
also find that capital structur, firm value and cash flow from operation are negatively related to
eamings quality measured by accrual index. Therefore, high debt firms, high value firms and high
cash flow from operation firms have high quality of eamings. However, the research does not find
the effect ofcorporat govemance and size ofaudit firm on eamings quality measured by accrud
index.
The results ofthe relationship between earnings quality and dividend payment show
that eaming quality measured by accrual index is negatively related to dividend payment rate.
Therefore, low accrual index (high eaming quality firms) are likely to pay high rate ofdividend
payment. However, the researcher does not find the relationship between earnings quality and
consistency ofdividend payment and change in dividend payment, respectively