After 20 years of development, the impact Fund holdings in corporate governance has also received more and attention. This paper analyzes effect fund from perspective real activities earnings management, considers nature firm industry reform 2012. took data a-share listed companies 2006 to 2017 as sample, referred model Roychowdhury used measure level activity multiple linear regression method ...

Earnings non-synchronicity captures the extent to which firm-specific factors determine a firm’s earnings, and has important implications to a firm’s information environment. Prior research shows that high earnings non-synchronicity impedes corporate outsiders’ information processing. Given managers generally possess superior information about their firms’ unique operating and reporting strateg...

We document that firms’ management of accounting earnings increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), with a significant increase during the period prior to SOX, followed by a significant decline after passage of SOX. However, the increase in earnings management preceding SOX was primarily in poorly performing industries. We also show that the informativeness...

Research aims: This study aims to analyze the relationship between real earnings management, fraud, and informativeness, as moderating variable, on investment efficiency.Design/Methodology/Approach: The samples tested consisted of 333 observations in manufacturing companies during 2018-2020. hypothesis testing used moderated regression analysis through Eviews-12.Research findings: results uncov...

This study develops a theoretical model and presents empirical evidence on crosssectional variation in managers’ choice of AEM and REM. In particular, it studies how AEM and REM are jointly affected by firms’ growth prospects, managers’ market-based compensation incentives, and the cost of real earnings management. The model yields several testable hypotheses. First, when the firm’s growth pros...

Based on the GEM 355 listed companies during the period October 2009 to December 2013, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of private equity on earnings management among the GEM listed companies by introducing a modified Jones model and a multivariate linear regression model. The results suggest that Companies listed on GEM have positive earnings management behavior, But PE ...

The study examines the relationship between Board Composition and Earnings Management. A set of listed Companies have been investigated to analyze the relationship for the year 2003 to 2007. Board Composition has been measured by Board independence, and Institutional ownership. Whereas earnings management has been quantified by discretionary accruals. Modified Cross Sectional Jones Model (1995)...