Does Enforcement Change Earnings Management Behavior?
Author : Germar Ebner
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2016
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Financial Crises and Earnings Management Behavior
Author : Bruno Maria Franceschetti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319541218
Book Description
This book approaches the question of the relation between financial crises and earnings management from two philosophical perspectives: positivism and critical realism. The results obtained using the positivist approach indicate that financial crises tend to have no consistent effect on earnings quality since managers’ earnings behavior does not differ from the pre-crisis to the crisis period. The author accordingly argues against the existence of a causal law based on a constant conjunction model (i.e., whenever a financial crisis happens, earnings management occurs) and concludes that financial crises cannot be seen as the cause of earnings management. The critical realism perspective, on the other hand, casts light on managers’ reasons for acting like an earnings manager; in conjunction with the more traditional positivist approach, it assists in refuting the idea of financial crises as a generative mechanism for earnings management. The author concludes by exploring other structures at work that might be responsible for earnings management. This book will be of interest to both academics and a wide range of professionals.
Advantageous Comparison and Rationalization of Earnings Management
Author : Tim Brown
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2014
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This paper proposes that psychological factors can change managers' beliefs about earnings management when they choose to engage in it. I show that, under certain circumstances, engaging in a small amount of earnings management alters a manager's beliefs about the appropriateness of the act, which may increase the likelihood of further earnings management. Specifically, I predict and find in two experiments that participants who initially choose to manage earnings are motivated to rationalize their behavior. Participants who are exposed to an egregious example of earnings management (commonly the focus of enforcement actions and press reports) have the opportunity to rationalize their behavior through a mechanism called "advantageous comparison," where participants compare their behavior against the egregious example and conclude that what they did was relatively innocuous and appropriate. My analysis also indicates that presenting participants with an example of earnings management that is similar to the initial decision they made mitigates advantageous comparison. These results have implications for academics interested in how earnings management, and perhaps fraud, can accrete over time and for regulators and practitioners who are interested in preventing it.
Earnings Management
Author : Joshua Ronen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387257713
Book Description
This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
Earnings Management, Fintech-Driven Incentives and Sustainable Growth
Author : Michael I. C. Nwogugu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317146557
Book Description
Traditional research about Financial Stability and Sustainable Growth typically omits Earnings Management (as a broad class of misconduct), Complex Systems Theory, Mechanism Design Theory, Public Health, psychology issues, and the externalities and psychological effects of Fintech. Inequality, Environmental Pollution, Earnings Management opportunities, the varieties of complex Financial Instruments, Fintech, Regulatory Fragmentation, Regulatory Capture and real-financial sector-linkages are growing around the world, and these factors can have symbiotic relationships. Within Complex System theory framework, this book analyzes these foregoing issues, and introduces new behaviour theories, Enforcement Dichotomies, and critiques of models, regulations and theories in several dimensions. The issues analyzed can affect markets, and evolutions of systems, decision-making, "nternal Markets and risk-perception within government regulators, operating companies and investment entities, and thus they have Public Policy implications. The legal analysis uses applicable US case-law and statutes (which have been copied by many countries, and are similar to those of many common-law countries). Using Qualitative Reasoning, Capital Dynamics Theory (a new approach introduced in this book), Critical Theory and elements of Mechanism Design Theory, the book aims to enhance cross-disciplinary analysis of the above-mentioned issues; and to help researchers build better systems/Artificial-Intelligence/mathematical models in Financial Stability, Portfolio Management, Policy-Analysis, Asset Pricing, Contract Theory, Enforcement Theory and Fraud Detection. The primary audience for this book consists of university Professors, PHD students and PHD degree-holders (in industries, government agencies, financial services companies and research institutes). The book can be used as a primary or supplementary textbook for graduate courses in Regulation; Capital Markets; Law & Economics, International Political Economy and or Mechanism Design (Applied Math, Operations Research, Computer Science or Finance).
The Association of Earnings Management with Current Returns, Current Market Values, Future Returns, Executive Compensation and the Likelihood of Being a Target of 10b-5 Litigation
Author : Christopher L. Jones
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1998
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Corporate Environmental Management, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Author : Khaldoon Albitar
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832535607
Book Description
The United Nations action plan for sustainable development, named “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” represents an international governance arrangement in response to the recent environmental challenges and social inequalities. Importantly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework sets a purpose to protect human rights, end poverty, reduce inequality, protect the planet and its natural resources, and enhance sustainable economic growth. Recently, due to the deterioration in global environmental conditions, increasing stakeholder demands, and stricter regulations and law all over the world, firms have realized the importance of integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic orientations in order to enhance their environmental, social performances and keep sustainable development.
International Perspectives on Accounting and Corporate Behavior
Author : Kunio Ito
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 4431547924
Book Description
Despite the globalization of accounting standards occurring through convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards, local accounting systems are deeply intertwined with each country’s unique institutions such as its corporate system, disclosure practices and enforcement mechanisms. First, this book empirically analyzes the effects of globalization and localization of accounting rules on corporate behavior such as earnings management, signaling, investment behavior and dividend payout policy. Second, the book unravels the economic consequences of disclosure based on the concept of self-disciplining enforcement such as management forecasts, environmental disclosures and risk disclosures by Japanese firms. This volume is a step forward in understanding the link between accounting and corporate behavior based on a new institutional accounting approach.
Are Taxes a Determinant Factor in Earnings Management Behavior? Empirical Results from Brazilian Insurance Market
Author : Eduardo Flores
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2014
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Book Description
Earnings management is a special issue in accounting theory, and the main impact of the practice is the creation of biases in financial statements. More specifically, earnings management affect accounting profits, and consecutively affect stakeholders in their decisions. According to the specialized literature, earnings management is a practice considered feasible by companies when they glimpse incentives to perform it, and incentives to the practice can be established by different reasons, so one may reasonably believe that enforcements rules of the environment is a special stimulus to the practice. As an example, unequal tax-rules between economic sectors can stimulate the practice of earnings management. So, our purpose is to verify if the legal enforcement by the government authorities created incentives to the earnings management in Brazil. To test the hypothesis, we selected a sample-data composed by Brazilian insurance companies, since this sector suffered a considerable increase in the income-taxes rate in 2008, moving the global rate from 34% to 40% of the accounting profit. Our sample consisted in 2.431 firms-years observations, in 28 quarters between 2006 and 2012. The utilization of this specific group had other important motive: according to Brazilian tax regulatory system, technical provisions from insurance companies can be considered deductible from income taxes. To consider the situation, we created a panel data model with changes in the level of the specified accruals during the selected time and included control variables for a better model specification. The results showed a significant relationship between the increased tax rates and the measure of the technical provisions, showing evidences of earnings management behavior in this industry specifically in the period which the tax-rate was increased for this group of companies.
Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting
Author : Mitchell Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
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ISBN : 9781680922912
Book Description
The text and images in this book are in grayscale. A hardback color version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922929. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.
