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Price Earnings- and Market Book-ratios presume a systematic link between financial statement data and company value. We analyze this relationship in a steady state model with overlapping capacity investments where company value is inferred from a constant growth residual income model. We...
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factors could be observed on the value of discretionary accrual. …
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This paper investigates how manipulating different earnings components will affect the likelihood of accounting-related shareholder litigation. Firms can manipulate earnings upward by accelerating revenue recognition, understating expenses, and overstating gains associated with special items....
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do; (2). whether firm-level conditional conservatism affects the persistence of accrual components. Using a sample of 106 … do in reliable accruals. In addition, we find that conservatism affects accrual persistence only to the extent that it …
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This study examines the association between corporate governance and accruals earnings management using a Corporate Governance Index (CGI) consisting of 55 individual corporate governance measures. Prior literature has focused primarily on certain individual corporate governance measures,...
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accrual reliability (Richardson et al. 2005). Using a large sample of Australian firm years drawn from before and after the … mandatory adoption of IFRS, we find that accrual reliability declined significantly after mandatory IFRS implementation. Working … firms (i.e., the Big four) are able to significantly attenuate any decrease in accrual reliability during the post …
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I motivate and implement a methodology that decomposes a firm's discretionary accruals into a firm-specific and an industry-specific component. I find that the “accruals anomaly” (Sloan 1996) – the finding that firms with high discretionary accruals subsequently earn negative abnormal...
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