The paper analyses the different accounting methods for strategic investments in separate financial statements according to IFRS. Furthermore it compares the accounting methods according to international standards with German GAAP, including the statements of the German professional institute of...

The aim of this study was to investigate two aspects of accounting information that may be inherently related: income smoothing practices and conditional conservatism. Theoretically, the more a firm employs income smoothing, i.e., uses accruals to reduce the variability of profits, the less...

This study uses data on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 200 firms for 2011–2014 to examine the impacts of Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) non–International Financial Reporting Standards (non–IFRS) earnings reporting guidelines on non-IFRS earnings reporting...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether voluntary corporate governance (CG) code issued in 2002 constrain earnings management (EM) among listed non-finance companies in Kenya.Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel data of 338-firm year's observations between 2005 and...

We investigate whether managerial risk aversion, as measured by CEO political ideology, affects corporate decisions to undertake earnings management. Using a sample of 10,799 firm-year observations for S&P 1500 firms during the period from 1996 to 2008, we document that Republican CEOs, who tend...

Objective - The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical research on the effect of corporate governance on earnings management in distressed and non-distressed companies. Corporate governance in this research is measured by independent board, audit committee, board of commissioners,...

This study examines the impact of Bursa Malaysia Listing Requirement reforms on the incidence of EM practices among Malaysian public listed companies. The sample used are the top 50 and bottom 50 companies listed on the corporate governance index issued by the Minority Shareholders Watchdog...

In this paper, we investigate the effects of goodwill accounting under IAS 36 on dividend policy in Italian Listed Companies. The technical areas of discretion in impairment test accounting enable pursuing three typical forms of earnings management: earnings smoothing, earnings increasing and...

Aim of this study is studying relation of management earnings forecast error and information content of accruals. Thus, the sample consists of 71 companies were selected for the period 2003-2011. In this study discretionary accruals is used as independent variables. The results suggest that...