A fundamental role of accounting information in financial markets is to serve as a basis for capital allocation. An important attribute of the quality of accounting information is the extent to which earnings (accruals) map into cash flows. A poor mapping of accruals into cash flows reduces the information content of reported earnings and results in lower-quality earnings. If investors differ i...

I examine whether managerial stock and options holdings influence the propensity of goingpublic firms to manipulate financial information, as measured by the incidence of shareholder class action lawsuits and discretionary accruals. Examining a sample of U.S. firms that went public during the years 1996-2006, I find some evidence that firms in which top managers receive large stock options gran...

Despite the large number of papers purporting to identify earnings management, the current techniques used to identify it are sorely lacking. In general, they are based on the assumption that accruals unexplained by a linear projection on firm-level observables (i.e., discretionary accruals) represent either explicit earnings management or poor quality earnings.1 Namely, these techniques assume...

This paper examines the usefulness of accounting information in predicting earnings management. We investigate a comprehensive sample of firms from 1971-2000 that restated annual earnings. We find that firms restating earnings have high market expectations for future earnings growth and have higher levels of outstanding debt. We also find that a primary motivation for the earnings manipulation ...

Interpreting accruals as working capital investment, we hypothesize that firms optimally adjust their capital investment in response to discount rate changes. Consistent with the discount-rate hypothesis, we document that (i) the predictive power of accruals for future returns increases with the correlations of accruals with past and current stock returns; (ii) controlling for investment substa...

In this paper five levels of specification of nonmonotonic reasoning are distinguished. The notions of semantical frame, belief state frame and reasoning frame are introduced and used as a semantical basis for the first three levels. Moreover, the semantical connections between the levels are formalized. It is shown that this general semantical framework is applicable for some well-known approa...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect board directors’ related clauses such as independence, female director, CEO Duality and expertise director included in Code Corporate Governance 2017 (CCG-2017) on earnings management with pre- post-CCG-2017 analysis. This study has used sample 323 non-financial listed firms Pakistan Stock Exchange from 2015 2019. Data were manually co...

in this paper operational matrix of bernstein polynomials (bps) is used to solve bratu equation. this nonlinear equation appears in the particular elecotrospun nanofibers fabrication process framework. elecotrospun organic nanofibers have been used for a large variety of filtration applications such as in non-woven and filtration industries. by using operational matrix of fractional integration...