Withinand Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings progression, little is known about the interaction between these types of mobility. Exploiting a large Danish panel data set and controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, we show that cross-firm moves at the non-execut...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper examines the influence of ownership structure on earnings quality of firms listed on the Chinese Stock Exchanges. We empirically test four contemporary earnings quality measures, including volatility of earnings, variability of earnings over cash flows, correlations between accruals and cash flows, and level of discretionary accruals, for 1438 firms listed on Sh...

Existing studies show that intra-firm variation in earnings announcement speeds correlates with earnings news, such that firms are more likely to decrease (increase) the speed of announcing bad (good) earnings news relative to their fiscal period end. We examine firms’ “expected abnormal reporting speeds” not just in relation to their own past behaviors, but also in relation to other firms anno...

This paper examines whether managers signal firms’ future performance by managing earnings to exceed thresholds. Because managers’ reporting discretion is bounded by the accounting regulations, managing earnings to exceed current period’s thresholds reduces future earnings and therefore makes future earnings thresholds harder to reach. As a result, only firms with sufficient future earnings gro...

In asserting that the number of firms reporting small profits is abnormally high, thus suggesting that earnings management has taken place, accounting researchers assume that the distribution of reported earnings should be smooth for unmanaged earnings. This has never in fact been demonstrated. This article seeks to confirm this assumption through a laboratory experiment, and also sets out to i...