The asymmetrical information created with financial statements in Turkey and its effect on credit rating system

In our country, businesses mostly give priorities to setting taxable income while they are preparing their financial statements. And they consciously fail in showing their real financial positions especially about liquidity and profitability. It creates an asymmetric information problem for the banks that are based on the financial statements while measuring the credibility of businesses. As a result of this asymmetric information rating notes could be further from the true values in credit rating system became widespread with Basel II system. The banks that use these credit notes in order to mitigate the credit risk and loans to business with the right guarantees can make a mistake in credit allocation because of the financial statements that is only based on declarations of businesses and not corrected. In this study the differences of rating notes and financial statements that corrected and not corrected are analyzed for evidence the deficiency of financial statements about showing the real positions of business in Turkey. And significance and necessity of the financial statements that are analyzed and corrected by financial analyst in phase of crediting is put forward.