Understanding earnings quality: A review of the proxies, their determinants and their consequences

P Dechow, W Ge, C Schrand - Journal of accounting and economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Researchers have used various measures as indications of “earnings quality” including
persistence, accruals, smoothness, timeliness, loss avoidance, investor responsiveness …

A review of the earnings management literature and its implications for standard setting

PM Healy, JM Wahlen - Accounting horizons, 1999 - publications.aaahq.org
In this paper we review the academic evidence on earnings management and its
implications for accounting standard setters and regulators. We structure our review around …

The effect of audit committee expertise, independence, and activity on aggressive earnings management

J Be´ dard, SM Chtourou… - Auditing: A journal of …, 2004 - publications.aaahq.org
This study investigates whether the expertise, independence, and activities of a firm's audit
committee have an effect on the quality of its publicly released financial information. In …

Annual bonus schemes and the manipulation of earnings

RW Holthausen, DF Larcker, RG Sloan - Journal of accounting and …, 1995 - Elsevier
Using confidential data of executive-specific short-term bonus plans, we investigate the
extent to which executives manipulate earnings to maximize the present value of bonus plan …

Does the life cycle affect earnings management and bankruptcy?

P Durana, L Michalkova, A Privara, J Marousek… - Oeconomia …, 2021 - ceeol.com
Research background: Deteriorating economic conditions and a negative outlook increase
the pressure on financial management and the need to show high financial performance …

Earnings management by acquiring firms in stock for stock mergers

M Erickson, S Wang - Journal of accounting and economics, 1999 - Elsevier
We investigate whether acquiring firms attempt to increase their stock price prior to a stock
for stock merger in order to reduce the cost of buying the target. In a sample of stock for stock …

[BOOK][B] Earnings management

J Ronen - 2008 - Springer
Historically, bubbles are followed by crashes, which in turn are followed by punitive
legislation. The 1999–2003 era is fully consistent with this pattern….(Coffee, 2003a, p. 46) …

The evolving disclosure landscape: How changes in technology, the media, and capital markets are affecting disclosure

GS Miller, DJ Skinner - Journal of Accounting Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recent changes in technology and the media are causing significant changes in how capital
markets assimilate and respond to information. We identify important themes in the …

The Covid-19 outbreak, corporate financial distress and earnings management

AA Aljughaiman, TH Nguyen, VQ Trinh, A Du - International Review of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study explores the association between the Covid-19 outbreak, corporate financial
distress and earnings management practices in China. We investigate whether firms took …

Comprehensive income reporting and analysts' valuation judgments

DE Hirst, PE Hopkins - Journal of Accounting research, 1998 - JSTOR
This paper investigates whether clear reporting of comprehensive income (CI) and its
components facilitates detection of earnings manage-ment by buy-side financial analysts …