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Earnings Management or Earnings Manipulation?
2023Earnings management is the strategic use of accounting principles to manipulate financial reports and influence external stakeholders' perceptions of a company's financial position. This chapter conducts a narrative review of the literature examining the long-term impact of earnings management on future profitability. It focuses on two main dimensions:
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Management's Earnings Justification and Earnings Management under Different Institutional Regimes
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2013AbstractManuscript TypeEmpiricalResearch Question/IssueThis study examines whether accruals earnings management is associated with managers' explanations of performance provided in narrative reports accompanying the financial statements in an international setting that covers voluntary and mandatory institutional environments for management commentary (
Aerts, Walter, Cheng, Peng, Tarca, Ann
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Earnings Management: A Perspective
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001Compares three definitions of earnings management used by accounting researchers and three methods of estimating it: aggregate accruals, specific accruals and discontinuities in earnings distribution. Discusses evidence relating to the reasons for income‐increasing earnings management, income‐decreasing earnings management and specific contexts, e.g ...
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Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1996
goals of the principals can be in conflict with the primary goals of the agents. The principals, for example, may desire a higher stock price, while the agents may seek increased personal wealth through higher management compensation. Thus, although the managers of a corpo ration have an obligation to the stockholders, agency theory says man agement ...
Stephen D. Makar +2 more
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goals of the principals can be in conflict with the primary goals of the agents. The principals, for example, may desire a higher stock price, while the agents may seek increased personal wealth through higher management compensation. Thus, although the managers of a corpo ration have an obligation to the stockholders, agency theory says man agement ...
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2017
This chapter seeks to describe the field of inquiry by defining the concepts of earnings quality, earnings management, fraud, and earnings manipulation. It presents the earnings management phenomenon, specifically, from whence it comes. It reviews the mainstream studies, and focuses on two types of earnings management: accruals earnings management and ...
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This chapter seeks to describe the field of inquiry by defining the concepts of earnings quality, earnings management, fraud, and earnings manipulation. It presents the earnings management phenomenon, specifically, from whence it comes. It reviews the mainstream studies, and focuses on two types of earnings management: accruals earnings management and ...
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Discretionary Accruals, Earnings Management, and Earnings Benchmarks
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005This study examines whether firms just above and just below three earnings benchmarks (loss avoidance, earnings changes, and analyst forecast) have differing levels of discretionary accruals. If discretionary accruals are a measure of earnings management, then firms above (benchmark beaters) and firms below a benchmark should have differing levels of ...
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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 2017
PurposeThe decisions marketing managers make on advertising expenditures are vital to maintaining the sales and profitability of a firm. However, these decisions have not been taken into account to a great enough extent when determining a firm’s performance. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the marketing-finance interface and to reveal
Heather M. Meyer, Nacasius U. Ujah
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PurposeThe decisions marketing managers make on advertising expenditures are vital to maintaining the sales and profitability of a firm. However, these decisions have not been taken into account to a great enough extent when determining a firm’s performance. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the marketing-finance interface and to reveal
Heather M. Meyer, Nacasius U. Ujah
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Earnings Quality and Earnings Management
2019Earnings management (EM) and earnings quality (EQ) can be considered two related challenging issues in financial reporting as EM is an aspect influencing EQ. Managers can make discretionary accounting choices that are regarded as a practice of either efficient communication of private information or distorting disclosure.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper is an epistemological dialectic on earnings management. It appears that for a long time earnings management has taken on the cloak of nebulousness and imprecision. In fact, some researchers use the term without knowing its true meaning or purport.
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This paper is an epistemological dialectic on earnings management. It appears that for a long time earnings management has taken on the cloak of nebulousness and imprecision. In fact, some researchers use the term without knowing its true meaning or purport.
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Management Motivation and Earnings Management Methods
2013 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2013In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the management motivations on earnings management methods based on thousands of samples between 2006 and 2011. The empirical results indicate that Real Earnings Management is used to manipulate the earnings in order to turn a profit, avoid loss, refinance, and change executives.
Zhonghai Yang, Sun Ying, Qianqian Zhang
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