This research starts with the assumption that, in Taiwanese companies listed as "Emerging," earnings are manipulated to surpass a cognitive reference point denoted by ¡uN*10k¡v, as has been documented by Carslaw (1988) and Thomas (1989). This paper investigates whether similar manipulation...

This paper employs an incremental approach to explore the determinants of corporate debt financing strategies such as the factors of the issuing costs, information asymmetry, growth opportunity, credit quality and managerial ownership. Addition to univariate analysis model, we use multiple logit...