VALUE RELEVANCE OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FOR INVESTORS
BY LARGE LISTED COMPANY IN VIETNAMESE STOCK MARKET
BY
LAM THI BICH NGOC
E0600096
Graduation Project Submitted to the Department of Business Studies, HELP
University College, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Hons
JUNE 2010
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this graduation project is based on my original work except for
quotations and citation which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not
been previously or concurrently submitted for any other courses/degrees at HELP
University College or other institutions. The word count is: 10125 words
Lam Thi Bich Ngoc
Date:
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VALUE RELEVANCE OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FOR INVESTORS
BY LARGE LISTED COMPANY IN VIETNAMESE STOCK MARKET
BY
LAM THI BICH NGOC
June 2010
Supervisor: Dr. Dang Duc Son
Abstract
Value relevance of accounting information is not a new concept. There are many
researchers who have been trying to build up different aspect of value of accounting
information for investors by providing surveys and assumptions. These theories have
similar basic knowledge. But there are still a gap of investors usage of accounting
information between Vietnam and other countries. By taking applicable theories and
practicing from previous studies, the researcher does a research by dividing 100
questionnaires to investors in Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HASTC). The aim of the
research is to determine whether accounting information affects the investor‟s decision
and the frequency of the use of information by investors. The result of this research
show that Accounting information is an important reference source when investors make
investment decisions. This also shows that investors did not completely rely on
accounting information for their investment investors because they worried about
information disclosed.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Declaration of Originality and Word Count
ii
Abstract
iii
Table of Content
iv
List of Figures
viii
List of Abbreviations
ix
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
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1.1
Research background
2
1.2
Problem Statement
3
1.3
Objective and Scope of Research
5
1.3.1
Objectives of Research
5
1.3.2
Scope of Research
5
1.4
Research Methods
5
1.5
Structure of Research
6
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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1
Financial Statements – The Important Source of Accounting
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Information for Investors in Vietnamese Stock Market
2.1.1
Balance Sheet
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2.1.2
Income Statement
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2.1.3
Cash flow Statement
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2.1.4
Note to the Financial Statements
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2.1.5
Disclosure of Information of Public Companies under
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Vietnamese Accounting Standards
2.1.6
2.1.5.1 Periodical Disclosures of Information
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2.1.5.2 Extraordinary Disclosures of Information
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Financial Ratios
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2.1.6.1 Liquidity Ratios
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2.1.6.2 Profitability Ratios
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2.1.6.3 Financial Leverage Ratios
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2.1.6.4 Dividend Policy Ratios
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2.1.6.5 Asset Turnover Ratios
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2.2
Value-relevance Literature
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2.3
Requirements of Investors about the Quality of Accounting Information
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Disclosure
2.3.1
Truthfulness
27
2.3.2
Objectivity
27
2.3.3
Materiality
28
2.3.4
Relevance
28
2.3.5
Timelines
28
2.3.6
Understandability
29
2.3.7
Comparability
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CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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3.1
Research Objectives
31
3.2
Research Strategy
31
3.3
Data Source
31
3.3.1
Secondary data
31
3.3.2
Primary data
32
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3.4
Research Methodology
32
3.5
Research Tool
33
3.6
Data Collection
34
3.7
Sampling
34
3.7.1
Sample Population
34
3.7.2
Sample Frame
35
3.7.3
Sample size
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CHAPTER 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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4.1
Introduction
37
4.2
Results and Discussion
35
4.2.1
Part A
35
4.2.2
Conclusion of Part A
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4.2.3
Part B
42
4.2.4
Conclusion of Part B
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4.2.5
Part C
45
4.2.6
Conclusion of Part C
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4.3
Conclusion of the Survey
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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMEDATION
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5.1
Conclusion
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5.2
Recommendation
61
5.3
Limitation of Study
63
5.4
Suggestion for Future Research
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REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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APPENDICES
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
Figure 3.1
Data collection
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Figure 4.1
Age
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Figure 4.2
Gender
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Figure 4.3
Occupation
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Figure 4.4
Annual Income
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Figure 4.5
Time
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Figure 4.6
Type of Market
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Figure 4.7
Investment Form
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Figure 4.8
Usage of accounting information
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Figure 4.9
Interest Level
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Chapter 4
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Figure 4.10
Effect of Accounting Information
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Figure 4.11
Investment Channels
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Figure 4.12
Financial Statements
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Figure 4.13
Analysis Types
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Figure 4.14
Financial Ratios
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Figure 4.15
Satisfaction Levels
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
Full Name
CAPM
Capital Asset Pricing Model
DCF
Discounted Cash Flow
FS
Financial Statement
HASTC
Hanoi Securities Trading Center
HSC
HoChiMinh Securities Corporation
SSC
State Securities Commission
SE
Security Exchange
VAS
Vietnamese Accounting Standard
WTO
World Trade Organization
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1
Research Background
1.2
Problem Statement
1.3
Objectives and Scope of Research
1.4
Research Methods
1.5
Structure of Research
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1.1
Research background
Vietnam has increasingly opened the economy and trade, remarkably after
joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007. As a result, it attracts
more investments from foreign companies and institutions. Vietnam‟s economy
becomes emerging market economy. On July 10th 1998, two securities trading
centers at Hanoi (HASTC) and Ho Chi Minh City (HSC) were set up and marked
the formation of Vietnam‟s stock market. The first trading session took place on
July 28th 2000 with two types of listing stocks. After ten years of operation, from
only a few companies listed, so far on both HASTC and HSC have nearly 500
listed companies. In 2000, share transaction reached only 1.37 billion VND per
session, 0.03 billion of bond transactions per session; to February 2010, share
transactions to 1520 billion VND per session and bond transactions to 216 billion
per session. From a capitalization of only 0.28% of GDP in 2000, to the end of
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February, 2010 has reached 38.57% of GDP. Vietnam‟s stock market has an
important contribution to assist governments and enterprises to mobilize longterm investment capital market development, business expansion, making the
economy less dependent on bank credit.( hsx.vn)
There are many types of economic decisions, so there are also many types of
accounting information. Financial accounting information is the major type that
investors need in the stock market. It illustrates the financial resources, financial
situation and activities of an organization ( or an individual). The role of
accountants is to summarize and analyze the financial accounting information of
the economic entity. Then, the users can have an overview about financial
resources at a time period and operations of that economic entity. The purpose of
financial accounting information is to support investors and creditors in deciding
where to put their scarce investment resources. (blogspot.com)
The goal of financial statements is to provide useful accounting information to
investors in making economic decisions. However, when the principles,
requirements and instructions for compiling and presenting the financial
statements are not clear and complete lack of uniformity, or difficult to apply,
will not guarantee the properties (reliability, understandability, comparability), so
that financial statements become less useful. Thus, accounting information from
those financial statements may cause bad impacts to the decisions of investors.
Useful accounting information is subject with special attention of many
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professional organizations, researchers, practicing accountants on the world for
years with many different angles approach. (atc.edu.vn )
1.2
Problem statements
The purposes of accounting information are to provide information of a business
about its: assets, liabilities, equity, revenues, income, expenses, profits and
losses, cash flows. It assists users predict future cash flows, especially the timing
and the degree of certainty of making cash flow and cash equivalents.
Accounting information helps managers to consider the situation of enterprises:
whether good operation or not; which field brings success for enterprise; the
strengths and weaknesses of the financial situation of enterprises; which needs to
change to improve and increase business value. Financial accounting field
provides effective information to investors, so as to aid potential investors or
funds evaluate and making investment decisions.
Accounting information is seen as a kind of basic information provided to
investors on the stock market. Through the analysis of accounting information,
investors will find out: how business activities of enterprise are? How much
expected income is? Where competitive position is? It has capability of
improving the competitive position or not? And the final decision is about
whether invests in such enterprise or not?
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Accounting field gives information for financial decision making. For example,
application of DCF model to analyze whether to invest in a government bond or
not; or CAPM model to examine and determine the cost of using capital in order
to decide whether to mobilize capital by issuing shares or not. (Peter Jennergren,
2008)
Accounting information is reliable when users can put their faith in it to make
decisions. Base on two important features: honest presentation and check ability.
In addition, the truthfulness of the information also has interaction relationship
with two above features to affect the usefulness of information.
1.3
Objectives and Scope of the Research
1.3.1 Objectives
Determine whether accounting information affects the investor‟s decision
The frequency of the use of information by investors
Suggest some solutions to improve accounting information which
investors use
1.3.2 Scope
Place of conducting research: Ha Noi stock exchange
Object of research: Investors
Period of conducting research: From 17th May 2010 to 7 June 2010
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1.4
Research method
This project is based on the practical research and investigation.
The researcher operates the survey among investors in Ha Noi stock exchange.
The previous surveys and researches from different areas in Vietnam contain the
information which could help the researcher to design the questionnaire and
measurement. This research follows quantitative method with a sample of n =
100. By distributing questionnaire to investors, the researcher could collect and
analyze data and know the frequency of the use of accounting information in
Vietnam stock market.
1.5
Structure of the research
This project included five chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
Chapter 4: Results and Discussion
Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendation.
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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1
Financial Statements –The Important Source of Accounting Information for
Investors in Vietnamese Stock Market
2.2
Value – Relevance Literature
2.4
Requirements of Investors about the Quality of Accounting Information
Disclosure
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2.1
Financial statements – the important source of accounting information for
investors in Vietnamese stock market
Financial statements, are always created in compliance with accounting
standards, must be studied and interpreted if they are to be used as a basis of
comparisons. Given the varied legal, economic and political backgrounds in
countries around the world, it is not surprising that the national accounting
standards vary among countries. Decision No. 15/2006 20th March 2006 of the
Minister of Finance of Vietnam prescribed financial reporting system of
enterprises including annual financial statements and interim financial
statements. The followings are the main financial statements under Vietnam
Accounting Standards.
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2.1.1
The balance sheet
The balance sheet is one of the extremely important financial statements to
enterprise; reflect the general case of the entire value of existing assets and assets
that form part of the enterprise at a certain time. Through balance sheet, user
analyzes and evaluates the prospects and future prediction. Balance sheet also
provides information to users about enterprise liability for tax authorities,
employees, investors, bank and suppliers, etc.
2.1.2 Income statement
Income statement reflects the business situation and results of operations of the
enterprise including business results and other results. Investors are always
interested in income statement most in the investment decision.
Through the income statement data, investors have the financial information
(revenue, cost of good sold, interest, profit, etc) is used to calculate the financial
ratios as a basis for reflecting the financial situation of enterprise.
2.1.3 Cash flow statement
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