International Financial Reporting Standard Adoption and Banks Performance in Nigeria

Abstract

This research work examined the impact of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) adoption on Banks performance in Nigeria. The study is based on the appraisal of IFRS compliance and Adoption. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. The primary data would be sourced via a questionnaire administered in a survey conducted on examining the convergence to IFRS in Nigeria Commercial Banks using Access bank Plc. as a case study while the secondary data collected from Annual Report of Access Banks Plc from 2007 to 2012 as well as journals, textbooks and newspapers. The result of the analysis showed that at there is significant relationship adoption of IFRS and financial reporting of banks in Nigeria and that there is significant relationship between IFRS and banks performance in Nigeria. At degree of freedom 2 and 5% level of significance, the X2 table value is 5.99 while the calculated value is 6.380 and the F statistics computed value show a figure of 23.254 which is significant at 5% level of significant which leads to the rejection of the null hypotheses and the acceptance of the alternate hypotheses which state that there is significant relationship between adoption of international financial reporting standards and financial reporting of banks in Nigeria and that there is significant relationship between international financial reporting standards and banks performance in Nigeria. However, comprehensive implementation of the standard to its totality by firms in the country, and the regulatory authorities should monitor strict compliance.