TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Creative Accounting on Information Quality in Jordanian Commercial Banks AU - Ahmad Abu Taber, Thaer AU - Abdallah Al Aryan, Laith JO - International Business Management VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 31 PY - 2018 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2018.23.31 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2018.23.31 KW - Comparability KW -commercial banks KW -Jordanian KW -responses rate KW -characteristics KW -results AB - This study aims to explore the creative accounting practices and their impact on the quality of information of Jordanian commercial banks. This study designed a questionnaire to be distributed to the respondents, out of 278 questionnaires distributed to the Jordanian bank’s employees, only 210 were returned valid to analysis yielded 75.5% responses rate. The results showed a negative impact for creative accounting on relevance, faithful representation, comparability and verifiability. This means that, the employees of Jordanian banks perceived the creative accounting to decrease these characteristics. Moreover, the results revealed no impact for creative accounting on timeliness and understandability. ER -