第二百叁十五期财务与会计学术论坛
发布者:xieying 发布时间：2017-12-01 10:15:00 浏览数： 次 [ ]
时间：2017年12月18日（周一）15:00-16：30
地点：嘉庚二号楼501教室
题目：Lenders' Experience with Borrowers’ Major Customers and the Debt Contracting Demand for Accounting Conservatism
报告人：Shuqing Luo, assistant professor in accounting, National University of Singapore
主持人：郑祯，麻花星空mv/财务管理与会计研究院助理教授
论文摘要：
Lenders often have lending relationship with borrowers’ major customers (labeled as “supply-chain lenders”). We hypothesize that private information obtained from borrowers’ major customers can facilitate more timely and precise evaluation of borrowers’ creditworthiness; this potentially reduces supply-chain lenders’ reliance on accounting conservatism in debt contracting. Consistently, we find that suppliers borrowing from supply-chain lenders provide less conservative financial statements than suppliers borrowing from non-supply-chain lenders at loan origination. This finding is more pronounced when supply-chain lenders are likely to have greater information advantage over non-supply-chain lenders. Based on latent factors that proxy for private information accessible from customers, we find that supply-chain lenders’ information advantage relates to customers’ future operational and financial risks. Further, in lending agreements, supply-chain lenders accept fewer accounting-based contractual terms, lower spreads, and longer loan maturity than non-supply-chain lenders. The overall evidence suggests that borrowers’ major customers represent an important information channel that enables lenders to more effectively screen and monitor borrowers, thus weakening the debt contracting demand for accounting conservatism.
报告人介绍：
罗淑清博士现为新加坡国立大学会计学助理教授，于美国匹兹堡大学获得会计学博士学位，已在Journal of Accounting and Economics和The Accounting Review等国际顶级学术期刊发表多篇论文。
