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The Market Pricing of Accruals Quality [PDF]

We investigate whether investors price accruals quality, our proxy for the information risk associated with earnings. Measuring accruals quality (AQ) as the standard deviation of residuals from regressions relating current accruals to cash flows, we find
Francis, Jennifer, LaFond, Ryan, Olsson, Per, Schipper, Katherine   +3 more
core  

The Real and Accrual-based Earnings Management Behaviors: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

, 2014
Jing‐Ming Kuo, Lutao Ning, Xiaoqi Song
openalex   +2 more sources

Beyond the Bin: The Effect of Waste Reduction on Real Earnings Management

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of waste management strategies on real earnings management. Using a sample of 6515 firm‐year observations from 22 countries spanning the 2011–2022 period, we show that companies that reduce their waste generation are less likely to engage in real earnings management, supporting the ethical theoretical perspective ...
Faten Lakhal, Assil Guizani, Khaled Ghozzi, Khaled Hussainey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk seeking or averse, how do analyst coverage and firm visits motivate managers? [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu H, Guo X, Sheng D.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Covid-19 outbreak, corporate financial distress and earnings management. [PDF]

Int Rev Financ Anal, 2023
Aljughaiman AA, Nguyen TH, Trinh VQ, Du A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Accrual Anomaly: Risk or Mispricing? [PDF]

We document considerable return comovement associated with accruals after controlling for other common factors. An accrual-based factor-mimicking portfolio has a Sharpe ratio of 0.16, higher than that of the market factor or the SMB and HML factors of ...
Hirshleifer, David, Hou, Kewei, Teoh, Siew Hong   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Impact of the 2016 EU Audit Reforms, Oversight, and Corruption on Earnings Management: Evidence From European Banks Using a Dynamic Panel Approach

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates earnings management in European banks in the context of the 2016 EU audit directive. Using a dynamic panel of 134 banks over 2012–2023, we apply two‐step System‐GMM estimators with three profitability measures—Earnings Before Provisions and Taxes (EBPT), Return on Assets (ROA), and Return on Equity (ROE).
Maria Christofidou, Epameinondas Katsikas, Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Konstantinos Spanos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade policy uncertainty and stock price crash risk in China: The moderating role of marketization and digital transformation. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu C, Masron TA, Huo H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Discretionary Accruals: Signalling or Earnings Management in Australia?

, 2019
H. Pham, Richard Chung, E. Roca, Ben‐Hsien Bao   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ESG Performance and Credit Risk: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Companies

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on credit risk using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets from 2009 to 2021. Employing fixed effects, the generalised method of moments, and instrumental variable models, we find that ...
Yanan Wang, Xiao Zhang, Michal Wojewodzki, Yuxin Jian, Fadey AbiDaoud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source