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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which corporate managers alter their capital structure in response to risk exposures on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Design/methodology/approach – A panel data covering the period from 2002 to 2007 was employed under the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which corporate managers alter their capital structure in response to risk exposures on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Design/methodology/approach – A panel data covering the period from 2002 to 2007 was employed under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815075
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between earnings management and the gender of the … CFOs are following more conservative earnings management strategies. Research limitations/implications – In general, the … the potential effects of female executives on earnings management. The findings reported in this paper provide novel …
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companies, good news has a delayed impact on earnings, as accountants only allow the effect of such news to be recognized … gradually in the earnings measure. Conversely, bad news is reflected rapidly in earnings. The results confirm a general upward … trend in the degree of conservatism of accounting earnings over the period as a whole. However, except for firm size, none …
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Purpose -This paper seeks to deal with the problem of the anomalous negative price-earnings relation for firms listed … in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). Design/methodology/approach -The simple earnings capitalization model is employed to … investigate the association between price and earnings across profit and loss firms listed in the ASE. Findings -This study …
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earnings restatement by the public companies listed in the Toronto stock exchange in Canada. Design/methodology/approach – The … restatement of earnings. This is evident from the fact that irrespective of the reasons for restatement, all restatements show a … higher for those reasons that are directly related to the earnings management than those that do not involve any active …
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This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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gender wage inequality. Using industry-level panel data, this study investigates the effects of Taiwan's restructuring during …
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– Some evidence was found that, in the Taiwan capital market, in general, the earnings and book value of equity audited by … representative accounting measures, such as earnings and book value of equity. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate the … the difference in the value relevance of earnings and book value of equity audited by Big 4 auditors and non-Big 4 …
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approximately 54-57 percent of firms in Taiwan with small pre-managed earnings losses manipulate reported earnings to show small …Purpose – The paper aims to clarify the relationship between earnings management and the sale of long-lived assets and … investments for firms listed in Taiwan. In addition, it suggests several interesting issues for further studies by proposing that …
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