Does board ethnic diversity affect IFRS disclosures?

Tawiah, VK, Gyapong, E and Wang, Y ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5438-4255, 2024. Does board ethnic diversity affect IFRS disclosures? Journal of Accounting Literature. ISSN 0737-4607

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Abstract

Purpose: This paper examines the impact of board ethnic diversity on the level of compliance with international financial reporting standards (IFRS) disclosures.

Design/methodology/approach: Using a unique hand-collected dataset from South Africa, we develop a comprehensive disclosure index against 570 mandatory requirements of IFRS. Further, we employ the fixed-effects model to investigate whether board ethnic diversity affects IFRS disclosures.

Findings: We document a significant positive association between ethnic minority directors and IFRS disclosure levels. Furthermore, we reveal that non-busy ethnic minority directors have a greater impact on IFRS disclosure levels than their busy counterparts. Additional analyses show that ethnic minority directors have less impact on IFRS disclosure levels when their number exceeds two. Companies with more ethnic directors on audit committees are more likely to comply with IFRS disclosure requirements and ethnic diversity increases accounting disclosures irrespective of the level of ownership concentration.

Originality/value: Our findings shed new light on the impact of board ethnic diversity on firms’ compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. The results are robust to alternative econometric techniques, proxies and potential endogeneity concerns.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Accounting Literature
Creators:	Tawiah, V.K., Gyapong, E. and Wang, Y.
Publisher:	Emerald
Date:	24 September 2024
ISSN:	0737-4607
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1108/jal-03-2024-0043 DOI 2334782 Other
Rights:	© 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited. This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	09 Jan 2025 09:15
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2025 09:15
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52822

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