Quality of Earnings - Some Guiding Principles/Framework The issue of earnings quality arises because of the cost/benefit trade off between cash accounting and accrual accounting. For our purposes‚ we want reported earnings to do two things: 1) to accurately represent current operating performance 2) to aid in accurately forecasting future operating performance These requirements for high-quality earnings mean that the reported earnings amounts for a particular period should: Represent
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Teaching Note on How the Earnings Management Teaching Module Can Be Taught Teaching Aims of the Module The Earnings Management Teaching Module is designed to help faculty teach how companies might manipulate earnings to maximize revenues‚ minimize expenses‚ and/or create reserves by setting aside some earnings in the current period that can be released into income at a later period. The result is to overstate earnings and mislead shareholders and creditors about the success of the company
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CFA Institute What Determines Price-Earnings Ratios? Author(s): William Beaver and Dale Morse Source: Financial Analysts Journal‚ Vol. 34‚ No. 4 (Jul. - Aug.‚ 1978)‚ pp. 65-76 Published by: CFA Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4478160 Accessed: 12/06/2010 17:20 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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European Journal of Business and Management ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4‚ No.1‚ 2012 www.iiste.org Earning Management and Dividend Policy: Empirical evidence from Pakistani listed companies Jahanzaib Haider (Corresponding author) Bahaudin Zakariya University‚ Multan Sub-Campus‚ Dera Ghazi Khan‚ Pakistan. Tel: 92-331-3312626‚ E-mail: haider_jahanzeb@yahoo.com Akbar Ali Bahaudin Zakariya University‚ Multan‚ Sub-Campus‚ Dera Ghazi Khan‚ Pakistan. Tel: 92-331-7304678‚ E-mail:
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Project Earnings Manipulation: An Ethics Case Based on Agency Theory ABSTRACT: The impact of accounting information on ethical behavior has been extensively documented. Additionally‚ agency theory is a widely accepted behavioral perspective. Despite this‚ there is an absence of instructional material in the accounting education literature that ties ethical issues to an agency-theory context. The primary objective of this case is to highlight control system ethical issues using an agency-theory context
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Banking Industry of UAE Practice Earnings Management Dr. Mohammed Obeidat Introduction It is the right of external users of accounting information to be provided with more adequate information to protect their interests. Many questionable issues concerning the term of earnings management are still available. Auditors‚ accountants‚ financial analysts‚ and other concerned parties may hold the responsibility of detecting external users from the practices of earnings management. Many questionable
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14061605D Topic: Should animal testing for medical purposes be allowed to continue? Animal Testing is the research or experiment mainly conducted for education‚ commercial‚ scientific and medical purposes. It is commonly used in the medical field for developing new drugs and toxicology tests. Animal testing for medical uses helps to deal with different diseases and cancers. However‚ due to the protection of animal rights and ethical reasons‚ the question that whether animal testing should be banned is
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Yaari 7). Earnings management has been a very controversial topic among business enterprises. In the accounting world‚ earnings management is increasing becoming an area of interest to many people including government regulators‚ SEC and stakeholders. Earnings management is defined as the use of accounting techniques to produce financial reports that may paint an overly positive picture of a company’s financial position (“Earnings Management” 1). Ethics and integrity are key aspects of earnings management
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Should Americans Continue to Diet When selecting a book for this assignment I had no idea at the time that reading a simple book for a college nursing class would truly change my life. By exploring what healthy eating is and learning how to use it to prolong my life and reduce disease I have begun to change my own eating habits. I have learned that diets I have tried in the past are actually harmful to me. I have learned how to turn things around and start eating for health and long life disease
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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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