The Effect of Social Responsibility Dimensions on Financial Statement Comparability

One of the external factors affecting the financial reporting quality is the company’s social attitude to ensure the stakeholders interests as social legitimacy. Because accepting social responsibility strengthens disclosure, reduces information asymmetry and reduces business risk. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of social responsibility dimensions (Quantitative dimensions) on financial statement comparability. This research is applied in terms of purpose and correlation in terms of method. For this purpose, 984 year-company in the period of 2013-2020 were selected and analyzed using multivariate regression models in Eviews software. The results show that the overall index of social responsibility has a positive effect on financial statement comparability. Also, the moral and economic dimensions of social responsibility have the most positive effect on the financial statement comparability respectively. Which shows the importance of moral indicators of social responsibility in improving the financial reporting quality. While the legal dimension of social responsibility does not have a significant effect on financial statement comparability, which can be due to the lack of legal capabilities expected to respond to the business social responsibility.