... Family control, INEDsandearningsmanagement To evaluate the impact of family control on the association between earningsmanagementand PINED, we include an interaction variable between PINED and ... of earningsmanagement that increases earnings quality The results based on family-controlled and non-family-controlled firms show that the negative association between board independence andearnings ... of INEDs on corporate boards (PINED) andearnings management, after controlling for the impact of other relevant variables The use of control variables is based on their relevance to earnings management, ...
... engage in a large degree of earningsmanagement 3.2 Timing, SEO anomalies, and firm size Loughran and Ritter (1995, 1997), Spiess and Affleck-Graves (1995), and Baker and Wurgler (2002) argue that ... explored the coupling between large firms andearningsmanagementand between small firms and timing We suggest that the information value of the reported earnings might offer a clue to explaining ... Economics and Finance xxx (2013) xxx–xxx On the other hand, according to the earningsmanagement hypothesis, issuing firms have an incentive to manage earnings upwardly if the market fails to understand...
... whether earningsmanagement exist in firms reports (Healy, 1985; Burgstahler and Dichev, 1997; and DeAngelo et al., 1994), endeavor to determine the types of earningsmanagement (Sirgar and Utama, ... 2008; and Beneish, 2001), or question the motives behind earningsmanagement (Healy and Wahen, 1999) Factors like management compensation contract incentives (Guidry et al., 1999, and Dechow and ... opportunistic and informative managerial ownership in addition to active and myopic institutional and block-holders ownership and their differential associations with earningsmanagement Understanding...
... al (1999), and Peasnell et al (2000), we use two earnings targets: zero earnings (Target1) and last fiscal year’s earnings (Target2).10 Firms are hypothesized to practice earningsmanagement ... positive and significant That is, the proportion of outside directors does not affect the level of earningsmanagement when unmanaged earnings are below target earnings, but earningsmanagement ... constrain earnings management, while directors from financial intermediaries reduce earningsmanagementand that the board representation of active institutional shareholders reduces earnings management...
... 2005 1316 PEASNELL, POPE AND YOUNG reported earnings (and earnings changes) and a lower-thanexpected frequency of firms with slightly negative reported earnings (and earnings changes) The same ... proximity of pre-managed earnings to zero earningsand zero change in earnings We predict that board monitoring will constrain income-increasing earningsmanagement when premanaged earnings undershoot ... reduce earnings management, we predict that and will be negative and that and will be positive Equation (3) also includes proxies for other factors that might affect the level of earnings management...
... (2003) and Peasnell et al (2001) found that having a larger board is associated with less earningsmanagement As such, the next hypothesis, which is related to board size andearnings management, ... direction of earningsmanagement is disregarded to include the combined effect of income increasing and income decreasing earningsmanagement The variables for board of directors and audit committee ... opportunistic earningsmanagement This is similar to that found by Park and Shin (2003) and Abdul Rahman and Haniffa (2005) There is also insufficient evidence to allow us to accept the ninth and tenth...
... GICS, Global Industry Classification Standard earningsmanagement while we also use small profits and small changes in earnings in our additional analysis Earningsmanagement research has been dominated ... earningsmanagement Our analysis focuses on absolute discretionary accruals as a proxy for earningsmanagement This measure is non-directional, capturing both upwards and downwards earningsmanagement ... chairperson andearningsmanagement With respect to Hypothesis 2, which investigates the relation between the existence of an audit committee and specific audit committee characteristics andearnings management, ...
... information asymmetry between managementand investors (Leland and Pyle, 1977), and between informed and uninformed investors (e.g Rock, 1986; Beatty and Ritter, 1986), and such information asymmetry ... auditor reputation and unexpected accruals are discussed in section IV Section V is the summary and conclusion II Earnings management, audit quality and IPOs Earningsmanagementand initial public ... may give management an opportunity to engage in earningsmanagement Fourth, there is significant information asymmetry between the owners-managers and investors (Leland and Pyle, 1977), and between...
... and Economics 3: 113-127 Dechow, P M., R G Sloan, and A P Sweeney 1995 Detecting earningsmanagement The Accounting Review 70: 193-225 _., ., and 1996 Causes and consequences of earnings ... voluntary disclosure andearningsmanagement Journal of Accounting Research 37: 57-81 Kim, J.-B., R Chung, and M Firth 2003 Auditor conservatism, asymmetric monitoring andearningsmanagement Contemporary ... reporting and auditor selection (Fan and Wong 2002) The conflict of interest between controlling shareholders and minority shareholders motivates controlling shareholders to engage in opportunistic earnings...
... governance and audit quality attributes on earningsmanagement For each attribute, we discuss its nature and hypothesized effect on earningsmanagement (earnings quality or lack thereof), and the ... Corporate Governance, andEarnings Management: A Meta-Analysis is necessary, through which management is overseen and supervised to reduce the agency costs and align the interests of management with ... effects on earningsmanagement of factors relating to corporate governance effectiveness and quality of external audit Corporate governance Owing to the separation of ownership andcontrol (and the...
... Accounting and Economics, 28 pp 27-50 Burgstahler D and Dichev I 1997, EarningsManagement to Avoid Earnings Decreases and Losses, Journal o f Accounting and Economics 24 pp.99-127 Burgstahler, D and ... 1999, Earnings Momentum andEarnings Management, Working Paper, University o f Michigan 21 Sloan, R and Skinner D 2001, Earnings Surprises, Growth Expectations and Stock Returns or Don’t Let an Earnings ... results followed by a summary and conclusions in Section VI II Background and Hypotheses Development II Whisper forecasts Analysts’ Behavior andEarningsManagement Academics and financial press writers...
... situations such as between managers and shareholders (e.g., Antle and Eppen 1985), board of directors and shareholders (e.g., Adams and Ferreira 2007), and auditors and shareholders (e.g., Antle 1984) ... mortgages and jumbo mortgages are majorly about the inter-temporal tradeoffs of earnings 2.3 Literature Review This paper is closely related to literature on real earningsmanagementand bank earnings ... future performance and various types of real activities manipulation The literature on bank earningsmanagement provides evidence that banks engage in both accrual and real earningsmanagement Beatty,...
... science and philosophy of change controlandmanagement 4667-8 ch11.f.qc 5/15/00 2:01 PM Page 375 Chapter 11 ✦ Change Controland Policy and Workspace Management Understanding Change Management ... Rules, and the formulation thereof, governing change controlandmanagement Change Control Rules and Enforcement The enforcement of policy and the methods or techniques of such enforcement Change Control ... Change Controland Policy and Workspace Management Group Policy is applied by creating an object that contains the properties that extend control of the computer and user’s access to network and...
... the earningsmanagementand accounting choice literature See Watts and Zimmerman (1986), Healy and Wahlen (1999) and Dechow and Skinner (2000) statements That is, in price protecting and demanding ... to 100) and combine the average 16 ranks into indices We define two sub-categories, earnings discretion” (EM1 and EM2) andearnings smoothing” (EM3 and EM4), and construct an earningsmanagement ... and within a country to further control for industry and country differences in business processes and economic activities We examine the pervasiveness of earningsmanagement across private and...
... What is the difference of cosmetic earningsmanagement between a developed market and an emerging market? 2.2 Benford's law andearningsmanagement The earningsmanagement issue has become a concern ... preventing earningsmanagement Literature review 2.1 Corporate governance mechanism andearningsmanagement The occurrence of the agency problem results from the separation of ownership andcontrol ... governance andearnings management: a survey of literature J Appl Bus Res 29 (2), 391–418 Marra, A., Mazzolab, P., Prencipea, A., 2011 Board monitoring andearningsmanagement pre- and post-IFR...
... band, the arrival of a PU will force the termination of one SU when there are N − i + SUs in the second band, of two SUs when there are N − i + SUs in the second band, and so on The second and ... and λ1 = 4.4612, which we consider a practical value Recall that system (S2) deploys the conventional random channel allocation algorithm, while systems 3a (S3a) and (S4) deploy CAP and CAP and ... obtained for systems 3a and Recall that systems 3a and 5a not support SH, deploy CAP but no repacking, while systems and 5b support SH, deploy CAP and repacking However, S5a and S5b deploy the adaptive...
... manuscript; and J Alejandro for technical assistance 28 Integrated Pest Managementand Pest Control – Current and Future Tactics References Adamczyk, J J., Jr & Gore, J (2004) Laboratory and field ... Integrated Pest Managementand Pest Control – Current and Future Tactics maintenance of host-free periods for the control of overwintering boll weevil in tropical and subtropical climates Pest Management ... Integrated Pest Management – Theory and Concepts Principles and Practices of Integrated Pest Management on Cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas Shoil M Greenberg, John J Adamczyk and John...
... Tilley and White (2009) and Fischer and Rosenzweig (1995) REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE A study by Burns and Merchant (1990) in the area of ethics andearnings used a survey describing 13 managementearnings ... other hand, earningsmanagement can be used to produce fraudulent financial data intended to mislead investors and other users of such financial information It has been said that earningsmanagement ... earningsmanagement has been the subject of much discussion and research Earningsmanagement can be viewed as a natural result of the fact that accounting standards allow for flexibility and subjectivity...
... How widespread is the earningsmanagement problem? In an article in Fortune magazine, Loomis (1999) argues that earningsmanagement is rampant and that CEOs view earningsmanagement as a tool ... composition and shareholder wealth The case of management buyouts Financial Management 21, 58 – 72 Lim, S., Matolosy, Z., 1999 Earningsmanagement of firms subject to product price controls Accounting and ... S.E., Williams, T.H., 1994 Earningsmanagement preceding management buyout offers Journal of Accounting and Economics 18 (2), 157 – 179 Rangan, S., 1998 Earningsmanagementand the performance of...