This study presents empirical evidence concerning the effect of different accounting standard on earnings management. Prior studies have shown that accounting standards influence earnings management. Tighter accounting standards regime restricts management’s descretion to manipulate accruals, and at the same time, induce more costly real earnings management activities. To investigate this iss...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Last-in-first-out First-in-first-out Information quality This study extends prior research by comparing the relative information quality of LIFO earnings and non-LIFO earnings using updated data and methodology. Results suggest LIFO earnings are incrementally informative independent of tax reporting implications. In addition to shedding light on why the results o...

this paper compares the value relevance of book value and dividends versus book value and reported earnings. the main purpose of this study explains which of dividends, book value and earnings are more value relevance. thus, we have examined 98 firms of tehran stock exchange over a period 1377-1382. our methodology of examining the information content of various income statement and balance she...

ABSTRACT This study investigates the market response to timeliness of audit reports, specifically before and during coronavirus disease 2020 (COVID-19) pandemic. We use earnings coefficient (ERC) as our proxy assess reaction reports. applied purposive sampling method all companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), except for financial industry, obtained 977 firm-year observations final ...

information asymmetry in stock market can increase the risk of investment which in turn increases the capital cost of firms. bhattacharya (1979) proposed a hypothesis that states dividend can act as a powerful signal in order to solve information asymmetry problem. we measured information asymmetry by lack of earnings transparency. therefore we examine the effect of earnings transparency on cap...

This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and the quality of accounting information in an emerging market. It is hypothesized that the relation between managerial ownership and earnings’ explanatory power of returns is negative and different from that documented in developed markets due to a unique institutional setting, leading to relatively high agency conflicts and inform...

The current paper aims to establish the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and precious metals earnings, in particular, gold silver earnings. study analyzes yield variance of using VAR model, impulse response analysis, ARMA-GARCH model. found that has a significant positive impact on short term, which makes an excellent market for investment during due their hedging haven characteristics.