’s earnings stable. Shareholders and analysts expect companies to meet forecasted goals and not to deviate from these. Especially‚ reliable companies are to report positive results and shall not present any ’surprises ’. Managers therefore often turn to their accounting departments for help‚ whose job it then is to improve the bottom line by changing the information shown in financial statements and hence improve investor confidence. This process is also called earnings management. Earnings management
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Analyzing Financial Analysts: What They Look for in Financial Reports and How They Determine Earnings’ Quality Carol M Graham‚ Mark V Cannice‚ Todd L Sayre. Journal of Management Research. New Delhi: Aug 2002. Vol. 2‚ Iss. 2; pg. 63‚ 10 pgs Abstract (Summary) The impact that financial analysts have on the share prices of publicly held companies has come under increasing scrutiny. However‚ despite the role they play in the financial markets‚ surprisingly little is known about the way in which analysts
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statements for purposeful adjustments of earnings figures beyond the true and fair view (Leuz et al. 2003‚ cited by U. Schäffer et al.‚ 2012). There are two methods which are Income Smoothing and Big Bath. “Income Smoothing involves taking steps to reduce the good years and defer them for use during the business down-turn years” (Gin Chong‚ 2006). In comparison‚ Big Bath manipulation in the financial statistics indicates a great fluctuation. However‚ Income Smoothing is more ethical in accounting practice
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What is Cost & Management Accounting Reporting Systems? Cost Accounting Reporting System deals with the process of tracking‚ measuring‚ recording and classifying the appropriate allocation of expenditure (financial and non-financial) for the determination of the cost of product or service in an organization and for the presentation of suitably arranged data for the purpose of control and guidance of management (Horngren et al‚ 2010). Costs are measured in terms of Direct Costs‚ Indirect Costs and
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The Effect of SOX Section 404: Costs‚ Earnings Quality‚ and Stock Prices Introduction The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Responsible for the application of the law THE SARBANES–OXLEY ACT (SOX) was passed in 2002 after a string of high profile corporate scandals. The law’s main goal was to improve the quality of financial reporting and to increase investor confidence‚ which requires companies to put in place and periodically test procedures that monitor the internal systems ensuring accurate
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CONTENT List of abbreviations AND SYMBOLS II 1. Introduction 1 2. The conservatism principle and the asymmetric timeliness of earnings – a summary 2 2.1. The author’s motivation 2 2.2. The asymmetric sensitivity of earnings to returns 2 2.3. Earnings-return association versus cash flow-return association 5 2.4. The asymmetric persistence of earnings changes conditional on news 7 2.5. Conservatism and the asymmetric effect on the earnings response coeffcients 9 2.6 Further testing 11 3. International
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IMPACT OF TAX CONSIDERATION AND TRANSITORY EARNINGS ON DIVIDEND INSIDE A FIRM. By ADARAMOLA A. O. (Ph.D.) ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Dividend Relevance Theory and to determine whether a relationship exists between dividend payment and transitory earnings; given the impact of tax and other economic conditions with the objective of maximizing the present discounted value of after tax dividend. To achieve this‚ the Lintner’s models were specified to which the
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“The Effect of IFRS Adoption and Investor Protection on Earnings Quality Around the World” by Houqe et al. In the paper “The Effects of IFRS Adoption and Investor Protection on Earnings Quality Around the World” Houqe et al. study the interaction of two fundamental factors that influence financial reporting. So‚ the authors developed an empirical model that tested whether the quality of earnings is a function of mandatory IFRS adoption‚ the country’s investor protection and the interaction of these
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Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 19 No. 2 Autumn 1981 Printed in U.S.A. Price and Trading Volume Reaction Surrounding Earnings Announcements: A Closer Examination DALE MORSE* I. Introduction The process of information dissemination and interpretation in securities markets is very complex and mostly unobservable. While changes in prices and the amount of trading that takes place at the market level provide evidence of information processing‚ Verrecchia [1981] demonstrated that these
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Paper Review “How do earnings numbers relate to stock returns?” By D. Craig Nichols and James M. Wahlen Written by Tra My Nguyen Student ID 24458 Submission date 27 March 2014 Submitted to Mr John Mulenga Financial Statement Analysis Module Review’s layout: I. Main contribution the research paper II. Summary of the findings Research Paper Review The research paper summarized the theory and empirical evidence on the relationship between accounting earnings of a firm and its stock
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