CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DISCLOSURE AND EARNINGS QUALITY OF QUOTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA
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This research investigated the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and earnings quality of quoted manufacturing companies in Nigeria during the period 2012-2022. The research adopted the ex-post facto design wherein secondary sources of published financial statements were extracted. Community development cost, human capacity development cost and employee benefit cost were used as the dimensions of the independent variable (corporate social responsibility disclosure). While accrual quality was employed as the measures of the dependent variable (earnings quality). A random sampling technique was found suitable in this study as it gave equal sampling chance to all variables under investigation. The research made use of e-view 10 statistical software in the analyses of all formulated hypotheses. The output of the hypotheses showed the following results: positive and significant relationship between community development cost and accrual quality, positive and insignificant relationship between human capacity development cost and accrual quality, as well as positive and significant relationship between employee benefit cost and accrual quality, The research study concluded amongst others that there exists a positive and significant relationship between community development cost and accrual quality,and that every marginal increase in community development cost leads to a similar increase in accrual quality. Based on the findings, this research recommended as follows: the accountants and managers of quoted manufacturing companies should disclose to the users of accounting information every community development cost incurred, shareholders in quoted manufacturing companies in Nigeria should understand the complex nature of human capacity development cost in relation to their earnings, and that employees of quoted manufacturing companies in Nigeria to periodically present to management their unsettled and undisclosed benefits in accordance with international labour law for implementation.
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