The Moderating Effect of IFRS Convergence on the Relationship between Accounting Conditional Conservatism and Stock Price Crash Risk: Indonesian Evidence

Abstract

This research aims to test the effect of conditional conservatism on stock price crash risk of firms listed in LQ45 Index in Indonesia Stock Exchange, either it is directly or is moderated by the full implementation of IFRS convergence. Research result proves that accounting conditional conservatism has no direct effect on stock price crash risk, but it has negative effect on stock price crash risk when it is moderated by the full implementation of IFRS convergence. This is given after controlling other variables that are considered to influence the stock price crash risk, consisting of detrended share turnover, negative coefficient of skewness in year t, standard deviation of weekly returns, average of weekly returns, and firm size. The last finding supports the certainty effect and the reflection effect of prospect theory. The moderating effect of the full implementation of IFRS convergence is the new finding related to the effect of conditional conservatism on stock price crash risk in the country which is already adopting the IFRS.

Keywords: conditional conservatism, crash risk, full implementation of IFRS convergence, LQ45