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Earnings Management and Long-Run Stock Underperformance of Private Placements [PDF]

, 2011
The study investigates whether private placement issuers manipulate their earnings around the time of issuance and the effect of earnings management on the long-run stock performance. We find that managers of U.S. private placement issuers tend to engage
Guan, L., He, Steven D, Yang, D.
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Audit Quality From a Service Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Audit quality is a multidimensional and latent construct that researchers struggle to evaluate and interpret. This paper follows an interdisciplinary approach by systematically reviewing the literature on audit quality evaluation from a service quality perspective.
Lise Muriel Botha, Phillip de Jager, Francois Toerien, Ezelda Swanepoel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Notes Readability and Discretionary Accruals

Revista de Contabilidad
Narrative disclosures should help external users to better understand managerial discretionary accruals. However, both narrative disclosures and accruals earnings are subject to managerial discretion. This study investigates the relationship expected between earnings management, as gauged by discretionary accruals (DA), and readability, as measured by ...
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Discretionary Accrual Public Companies in Indonesia [PDF]

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2021
Nimas Pamesty, Rahmat Agus Santoso
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Does Sustainability Report Assurance Affect the Cost of Equity? The Role of Peer Behavior and Assurance Provider Characteristics La certification des rapports de durabilité a‐t‐elle une incidence sur le coût des capitaux propres? Rôle du comportement des pairs et des caractéristiques des certificateurs

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability report assurance and assurance provider characteristics (i.e., Big 4, statutory auditor, and industry specialist) on the cost of equity in a setting in which reporting is mandatory and assurance is voluntary.
Julian Kordisch, Reiner Quick
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings management to avoid earnings decreases and losses: Evidence from Vietnamese listed companies

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020
By combining Empirical Distribution Approach (EDA) and Discretionary Accruals Approach (DAA) with data including 2,949 observations of 295 Vietnamese listed companies from 2006 to 2016, we provide evidence that the firms have conducted earnings ...
Ky Han Tran, Nguyen Hung Duong
doaj   +1 more source

Is there something rotten in Denmark? Earnings management to avoid small losses. [PDF]

This study focuses on earnings management by investigating the frequency distribution of the reported earnings in a European country. In particular, the relation between main “manageable” elements of working capital and reported earnings is examined. The
Schøler, Finn
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Seeing Clearly or Bracing for Impact? The Tug‐of‐War Between Neutrality and Conservatism in Financial Reporting Voir clair ou se préparer à l'impact? Le bras de fer entre neutralité et conservatisme en matière d'information financière

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing debate exists between neutrality and conservatism in financial reporting. This debate has gained momentum following the 2010 FASB decision to remove the term conservatism from its Conceptual Framework. While neutrality is now promoted as a cornerstone of faithful representation, conservatism remains embedded in numerous ...
Rahat Jafri, Anup Srivastava, Hussein Warsame   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for Expected Cost Savings and Synergy Gains: The Role of Lenders’ Risk Preferences Comptabilisation des économies de coûts et des gains de synergie attendus : le rôle des préférences des prêteurs en matière de risque

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether lenders' risk preferences explain the use of cost‐synergy adjustments in loan contracts. These adjustments represent an aggressive accounting choice that permits borrowers to add expected cost savings and synergy gains from mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings to contractual earnings. Using novel data from loan
Shushu Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Reporting Quality, Information Risk and Cost of Capital [PDF]

مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی, 2008
This paper examines the relation between the quality of financial reporting, information risk and cost of capital for a sample of firms listed in TSE's during 1380-1384.Using accruals quality as a proxy for financial reporting quality and   information ...
Mohammad Arabmazar Yazdi, Mohammad Talebian   +1 more
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