Covenant Violation Concern and Investors’ Pricing of Level 3 Fair Value Adjustments

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aut.relation.articlenumber100382
aut.relation.endpage100382
aut.relation.issue3
aut.relation.journalJournal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics
aut.relation.startpage100382
aut.relation.volume19
dc.contributor.authorMehnaz, L
dc.contributor.authorRahman, A
dc.contributor.authorKabir, H
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T00:12:21Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T00:12:21Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-13
dc.description.abstractWe examine the influence of concerns relating to violation of the borrowing covenant on the investors’ valuation of Level 3 fair value adjustments. We reason that managerial bias in Level 3 fair value estimation is greater for firms approaching violation of the borrowing covenant. Based on a sample of Australian real estate firms, we find that managers report upward adjustments to Level 3 investment property values when they approach the threshold where the borrowing covenant is violated; and further find that this deliberate use of discretion is significant for firms closer to the interest coverage thresholds, but not for those approaching the gearing thresholds. We then find that, while fair value adjustments are priced positively, investors apply incremental discounts for firms closer to the violation threshold, or firms which are in technical default of borrowing covenants relative to those that are far from violation. Additionally, we show that the pricing discount on fair value adjustments attributable to the concern over covenant violation is significant only for the weaker governance sub-sample, indicating that effective monitoring mitigates faithful representation concerns about Level 3 fair value estimations.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, ISSN: 1815-5669 (Print), Elsevier BV, 19(3), 100382-100382. doi: 10.1016/j.jcae.2023.100382
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jcae.2023.100382
dc.identifier.issn1815-5669
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17091
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1815566923000322
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject3501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
dc.subject3502 Banking, Finance and Investment
dc.subject35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
dc.subject3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
dc.subject1402 Applied Economics
dc.subject1501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
dc.subject1502 Banking, Finance and Investment
dc.subject3501 Accounting, auditing and accountability
dc.subject3502 Banking, finance and investment
dc.subject3801 Applied economics
dc.titleCovenant Violation Concern and Investors’ Pricing of Level 3 Fair Value Adjustments
dc.typeJournal Article
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