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ABSTRACT
In this study, we investigate whether different types of business strategy are related to financial opacity and, if so, whether financial constraints and decreasing production demand exacerbate or mitigate financial opacity. Using a sample of listed firms in Taiwan from 2013 to 2018, we find that defenders mitigate financial opacity through loss avoidance and exacerbate financial opacity through aggressive earnings, especially when they face lower financial constraints and during decreasing production demand. However, prospectors do not exacerbate financial opacity by smoothing earnings especially when they face higher financial constraints and their production demand is increasing. Our study should be of interest to researchers and financial statement users, as well as others concerned with understanding the effects of different types of business strategy on different levels of financial opacity.
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Notes
1. Because we control internal control weakness as the factor to affect financial opacity, but prior study suggests that there are few regulations to require firm disclosure internal control weakness in Taiwan (Chu, Chiang, and Tsang 2021), thus we have many missing data after we put internal control weakness as our control variable.
2. We also refer to Tu et al. (Citation2020), who used the ratio of the standard deviation of net income to the standard deviation of cash flow from operations to measure earnings smoothing, finding similar results.