税收负担是会计稳健性产生的重要原因之一,稳健性的财务报告对于经理人薪酬契约制定、缓解委托代理问题发挥着重要作用(Watts,2003)。本文以2004到2008年间A股上市公司为研究样本。实证检验了税收负担对会计稳健性的影响、稳健性的会计盈余对薪酬业绩敏感度有何影响。研究结果表明,税收负担显著提高了会计稳健性,但按照盈利和亏损进行分组后研究发现,这一关系仅存在于盈利组中,而在亏损组中税收负担对会计稳健性无显著影响;进一步的经验证据显示,在盈利组中,由于受到会计稳健性的影响,薪酬业绩敏感度得以显著增强.而在亏损组中薪酬业绩敏感度则无显著影响。
Tax burden is one of the important emergency resources of accounting conservatism, and accounting conservatism plays an important role in compensation contracts of managers and solving agency problems ( Watts, 2003 ). Using listed companies of China's A - share capital markets from 2004 to 2008 as sample, this paper empirically examines the effects of tax burden on accounting conservatism and how conservative account- ing earnings affect managers' compensation contracts. The empirical results show that tax burden enhances ac- counting conservatism significantly, when the sample is divided into profit - making and loss group, the rela- tionship only exists in profit - making enterprises, tax burden doesn't affect conservatism significantly in loss group. Further evidence shows that an increasing sensitivity of executive pay to performance only exists in profit -making sub -sample but not in loss group.