Earnings Accruals and Real Activities Management around Initial Public Offerings

Earnings Accruals and Real Activities Management around Initial Public Offerings

Author: Peter Ising

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3658037946

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The beginning of the new millennium was characterized by company scandals in accounting around the world. A transparent and fair presentation of financial statements is beneficial for capital market participants. Especially around initial public offerings different incentives of these players exist to influence financial statements in diverse aspects. Therefore, studies of earnings management try to identify abnormal behavior. Peter Ising covers additional aspects to shed light on substantial drivers of discretionary reporting behavior around going public. Factors like influence on real activities, industry affiliation, and specific years in the IPO process add further insight to this theoretical and practical topic. The dependence on these factors is high and confirms that company specifics are important for interpretation of financial results.


Introduction to Earnings Management

Introduction to Earnings Management

Author: Malek El Diri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-20

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 3319626868

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This book provides researchers and scholars with a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of earnings management theory and literature. While it raises new questions for future research, the book can be also helpful to other parties who rely on financial reporting in making decisions like regulators, policy makers, shareholders, investors, and gatekeepers e.g., auditors and analysts. The book summarizes the existing literature and provides insight into new areas of research such as the differences between earnings management, fraud, earnings quality, impression management, and expectation management; the trade-off between earnings management activities; the special measures of earnings management; and the classification of earnings management motives based on a comprehensive theoretical framework.


Earnings Management, Conservatism, and Earnings Quality

Earnings Management, Conservatism, and Earnings Quality

Author: Ralf Ewert

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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Earnings Management, Conservatism, and Earnings Quality reviews and illustrates earnings management, conservatism, and their effects on earnings quality in an economic modeling framework. Both earnings management and conservative accounting introduce biases to financial reports. The fundamental issue addressed is what economic effects these biases have on earnings quality or financial reporting quality. Earnings Management, Conservatism, and Earnings Quality reviews analytical models of earnings management and conservatism and shows that both can have beneficial or detrimental economic effects, so a differentiated view is appropriate. Earnings management can provide additional information via the financial reporting communication channel, but it can also be used to misrepresent the firm's position. What the authors find is that similar to earnings management, conservatism can reduce the information content of financial reports if it suppresses relevant information, but it can be a desirable feature that improves economic efficiency. The approach to study earnings management, conservatism, and earnings quality is based on the information economics literature. A variety of analytical models are reviewed that capture the effects and subtle interactions of managers' incentives and rational expectations of users. The benefit of analytical models is to make precise these, often highly complex, strategic effects. They offer a rigorous explanation for the phenomena and show that sometimes conventional wisdom does not apply. The monograph is organized around a few basic model settings, which are presented in simple versions first and then in extensions to elicit the main insights most clearly. Chapter 2 presents the basic rational expectations equilibrium model with earnings management and rational inferences by the capital market. Chapter 3 is devoted to earnings quality and earnings quality metrics used in many studies. Chapter 4 studies conservatism in accounting. Finally, the authors examine the interaction between conservatism and earnings management. Each chapter ends with a section containing a summary of the main findings and conclusions.


Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies

Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies

Author: Shahzad Uddin

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2010-12-02

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0857244523

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Includes research papers that examines various issues including the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs), management accounting change in the context of public sector reforms, corporate reporting disclosures, auditing, etcetera.


Earnings Management and Corporate Finance

Earnings Management and Corporate Finance

Author: Joanna Lizińska

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1040104150

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In today's dynamic landscape of accounting, corporate finance, and business management, earnings management has assumed paramount importance. Transparent and reliable accounting information is crucial for accurate corporate performance forecasting and financial decision-making. This book uniquely discusses practical earnings management methods within the accounting and taxation realms. It is supported by extensive international evidence linking informativeness of financial reports to companies’ financial decisions. Delving into the earnings management process, this book provides profound insights into how profits can be influenced through accounting choices and real business transactions. Real-life case studies will undoubtedly facilitate the understanding of accounting and taxation methods. Additionally, it unravels key elements of corporate finance puzzles related to the transparency of financial reports, including the macroeconomic environment, profit thresholds, cash management, audit quality, financing decisions, and financial health. With broad empirical evidence from various European countries, it multidimensionally explores the important link between the quality of information in financial statements and trade-offs behind financial decisions. The book serves as a valuable reference for international researchers in corporate finance, accounting, and corporate governance. It is also a powerful tool for business practitioners, including owners, lenders, auditors, regulatory and professional bodies, business partners, or other market participants. For those seeking the latest insights on earnings management, those producing or assessing accounting information, and those using financial reports in their research or business practice, this book is a must-read.


Capital Structure, Earnings Management, and Risk of Financial Distress

Capital Structure, Earnings Management, and Risk of Financial Distress

Author: Pietro Gottardo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 3030003442

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This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value. For these purposes, longitudinal data on Italian family and non-family non-financial firms are closely analyzed. The Italian setting is of special interest in this context because family businesses account for 94% of GDP, families are particularly committed to maintaining control of firms, and the economy is bank based rather than market based. The analyses draw on the socioemotional wealth approach, which emphasizes the importance of the stock of emotional value in family firms, in combination with financial theories such as Pecking Order Theory, Trade-off Theory, and Agency Theory. The findings cast significant new light on differences between family and non-family firms and the effects of different forms of family influence. The book will have broad appeal for academics, managers, practitioners, and policymakers.


Advanced Issues in the Economics of Emerging Markets

Advanced Issues in the Economics of Emerging Markets

Author: William A. Barnett

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1789735793

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Volume 27 of the International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics series collects a range of unique and diverse chapters, each investigating different spheres of development in emerging markets with a specific focus on significant engines of growth and advancement in the Asia-Pacific economies.


Encyclopedia of Finance

Encyclopedia of Finance

Author: Cheng-Few Lee

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-07-27

Total Pages: 861

ISBN-13: 0387262849

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This is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It also has an international approach to ensure its maximum appeal. The Editors' wish is that the readers will find the encyclopedia to be an invaluable resource.


ACEBISS 2019

ACEBISS 2019

Author: Darmawan Napitpulu

Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation

Published: 2020-02-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1631902210

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We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the first edition of the 2019 Annual Conference of Economics, Business and Social Sciences (ACEBISS). This conference has brought researchers, developers and practitioners around the world who are leveraging and developing the great chance of financial inclusion in economics and business also related to the social community toward industry 4.0. The theme of ACEBISS 2019 was “Fintech Effect, The Challenge of Financial Inclusion in Economics and Business”. Within this scope, ACEBISS is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working on financial effect analysis especially Fintech, through qualitative and quantitative method to study phenomenon in social and business entities.