“…REM is a new issue (Sun, Lan, & Liu, 2014), which has not been adequately addressed by most regulators (Francis, Hasan, & Li, 2016), and not been much investigated in Malaysia (Kalgo, Noordin, Nahar, & Turmin, 2015). It has been argued that managers have turned away from AEM to REM (Nia, Sinnadurai, Sanusi, & Hermawan, 2017), particularly following the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) (Khoo & Ahmad-Zaluki, 2015;Wan Ismail, Kamarudin, Zijl, & Dunstan, 2013) introduced by the International Accounting Standards Board (Al-Absy & Ku Ismail, 2019; Al-Absy, Ku Ismail, & Al-Dubai, 2016). Like in many other countries, some evidence on REM in Malaysia has been documented.…”