Earning management is good or not? Introdcution This essay is to examine whether earning management is it good or bad. Though there is so many debate about whether it should be accepted to be good rather than bad‚ however‚ this essay will explain the both side of earnings management. Earnings management reduces the quality of financial reporting‚ it can interfere with the resource allocation in the economy and can bring adverse consequences to the financial market. This essay analyses both‚ causes
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(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 at firms where the CEO’s potential total compensation
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Paper April 28‚ 2014 Real and Accrual Based Earnings Management 1.1 Introduction The most important item in the financial statements of a company is earnings. Earnings indicate the amount of value-added activities a company has engaged in over a period of time‚ as well as assist in the direction of resource allocation in capital markets. Just as the eyes are the window to the soul‚ earnings are the window to a company’s value. Increasing earnings represent an increasing company value‚ while
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’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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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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Question According to Kerzner “the first step in making project management work must be a complete definition of the boundaries across which the project manager must interact”. Critically examine this statement. (From: Kerzner‚ H. (2009). Project Management:a systems approach to planning‚ scheduling and control. (10th ed.) New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons. p. 381.) In discussing this question I will first define the key terms in the statement provided for discussion as a means of building
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KNUST SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Earnings management is in the best interest of shareholders. Discuss ACF 351 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE BY‚ DUNOO SELASI LARRY Earnings management is in the best interest of shareholders. Discuss Earnings‚ sometimes called profit‚ net income are the single most important item in the financial statements. They indicate the extent to which a company has engaged in value added activities‚ they are signals that helps direct resource allocation
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Why is consumption smoothing? The consumption function plays a major role in GDP of macroeconomy. Hence‚ its stability is of great importance to a country’s economy. The economist Irving Fisher proposed “Intertemporal choice” is the study of the relative value people assign to two or more payoffs at different points in time. Most choices require decision-makers to trade-off costs and benefits at different points in time. (Fisher‚ 1930) According to Fisher’s model‚ economists Franco Modigliani created
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Accounting has a long history of being an ethical profession. In recent years‚ however‚ some companies have asked their accountants to help "manage earnings." What does it mean to manage earnings? Who is more likely to be involved in such a situation‚ the financial accountant or the management accountant? Why? Do you believe that managing earnings is ethical? Discuss the rationale for your answer. The major role of financial reporting is to effectively communicate financial information
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Accounting Research Vol. 49 No. 3 June 2011 Printed in U.S.A. Earnings Quality Based on Corporate Investment Decisions FENG LI∗ Received 25 July 2007; accepted 20 September 2010 ABSTRACT In this paper‚ I examine a new approach for measuring earnings quality‚ defined as the closeness of reported earnings to “permanent earnings‚” based on firm decisions with regard to capital and labor investments. Specifically‚ I measure earnings quality as the contemporaneous association between changes in
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