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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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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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Earnings Management and the Post‐earnings Announcement Drift
Financial Management, 2008We posit that the post‐earnings announcement drift (PEAD) is related to earnings management. Accordingly, we find that firms with large negative (positive) changes in operating cash flows manage accruals upward (downward). Most importantly, we find that PEAD is concentrated largely among those firms that are most likely to have smoothed their reported ...
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun
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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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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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Does Earnings Guidance Invite Earnings Management?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015In the wake of Enron-era scandals, practitioners warn that earnings guidance invites earnings management as executives scramble to achieve previously announced targets. Concurrent academic studies show that company executives manage earnings to achieve benchmark targets.
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Coordinated Earnings and Earnings-Forecast Management
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005This paper provides a rational expectations model in which a manager manipulates earnings and his earnings forecasts in a coordinated way. In the model, the manager takes into account that failing to meet expectations created by his earnings forecast will have adverse consequences in future reporting periods. The model captures the disciplinary role of
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Real Earnings Management and Accrual-based Earnings Management
Advances in Economics, Management and Political SciencesAgainst the backdrop of the rapid development of the capital market and increasingly fierce corporate competition, earnings engagement, working as an important means for enterprises to adjust financial information, has attracted much attention regarding its rationality and potential risks.Enterprises influence financial statements through earnings ...
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2012
In the previous parts of this book, it was assumed that the project has not started yet, and hence, the project was still in the definition and scheduling phase of the project life cycle. From this chapter on, it is assumed that the project has started (execution phase) and that the project is in progress.
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In the previous parts of this book, it was assumed that the project has not started yet, and hence, the project was still in the definition and scheduling phase of the project life cycle. From this chapter on, it is assumed that the project has started (execution phase) and that the project is in progress.
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