ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Financial Economics 80 (2006) 511–529 www.elsevier.com/locate/jfec CEO incentives and earnings management$ Daniel Bergstressera‚Â Thomas Philipponb a Harvard Business School‚ Boston MA 02163‚USA NYU Stern School of Business‚ New York‚ NY 10012‚USA b Received 25 September 2003; accepted 13 October 2004 Available online 22 December 2005 Abtract We provide evidence that the use of discretionary accruals to manipulate reported earnings is more pronounced
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last 30 years‚ the salary received by the average CEO has increased exponentially. The salary received by the average hourly worker‚ of course‚ has not. In 1980‚ CEOs were paid 42 times the average amount of money paid to hourly workers; by 2000 it had grown to a staggering 531 times.1 Its clear that as revenue grows‚ the pay gap between worker and CEO grows exponentially as well. In a corporation that only generates $5‚000‚000 in annual revenue‚ the CEO receives 5.4 times the median pay of all other
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enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation (SOX thereafter)‚ which regulates the unethical wrongdoings‚ CEOs enjoyed unreasonable high remuneration despite of their mediocre performance. The overall focus of this report is to identify the relationship between CEO’s compensation and performance of the company‚ and figure out whether the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has an impact on it. Using a sample of CEO compensation and firm performance in the fiscal year 2002 and 2004‚ we use the empirical analysis
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A Study of the Leadership of CEOs at Apple Table of Contents Background information Page 3 & 4 Michael Scott Page 5 & 6 Mike Markkula Page 7 & 8 John Scully Page 8‚ 9 & 10 Michael Spindler Page 10‚ 11 &12 Gil Amelio Page 12‚ 13 & 14 Steve Jobs Page 15‚ 16 & 17 Tim Cook Page 17‚ 18 &19 References Page 20 – 27 Background Information Apple is a company that everyone in the
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Luttrell‚ James P. January 2‚ 2015 Auditing Theory Mr. Red Feliciano Enron Corporation’s Case Analysis Reference: Auditing and Assurance Principles by Jose Ireneo‚ Shirley Ireneo and George James 1. A. Fastow is one of the most responsible because being the Chief Financial
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Female CEO Biography Virginia (Ginni) Rometty‚ IBM CEO Abstract IBM recently promoted Virginia (Ginni) Rometty to its top leadership position. Ms. Rometty will become the first white female chief executive officer in the company’s 100-year history and every move she makes will be carefully watched. Rometty has truly earned this position and has an impressive history with IBM to show it. There are challenges ahead but Ms Rometty’s education‚ experience and determination will suit
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Bachelor Degree of Engineering. After‚ Schmidt wanted to move to a warmer climate‚ such as California‚ which was partly due to his newly established position at Bell Labs‚ whom at the time were responsible for inventing UNIX. ERIC SCHMIDT GOOGLE CEO 3 Schmidt also chose Northern California so he could attend Berkeley
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The CEO and The Monk-One Company’s journey to profit and purpose By Robert Catell‚ Kenny Moore and Glen Rifkin About the authors: Robert B. Catell: The CEO of KeySpan and the man behind Brooklyn Unions transformation from a small local monopoly into one of America’s largest energy providers. He is one of the most respected business leaders in New York Kenny Moore: Is a former monk‚ who left monasticism after 15 years to embrace corporate life and a successful career in human resources
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One of the most important issue that Daniel Keyes wants to convey is mistreating people with mental disability. In this story‚ Charlie believes that Joe and Frank were his friends and believes that they liked him; however‚ Joe and Frank were using Charlie for the sake of their own entertainment by misleading him to do which aren’t healthy‚ for example‚ mixing drugs or dose of medicine in his drink‚ leaving him alone in the night time‚ and later lying that the police had beaten him up. This shows
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I read The Five Temptations of a CEO written by Patrick Lencioni. Lencioni breaks down that being a successful leader can come to practicing a few simple behaviors. The first behavior or “temptation” is being more interested in protecting your career status rather than making sure your company achieves results. An example of this would be the head of a nonprofit organization being happy with winning a large grant. A nonprofit shouldn’t be happy with winning a large grant unless the money was used
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