This study examines whether firms transfer income between the income statement and other comprehensive income (OCI) to manage earnings. The results are consistent with managers opportunistically reclassifying income as OCI and OCI as income. Specifically, we find that firms strategically...

This paper investigates the use of earnings management by cooperatives to avoid reporting losses or earnings decreases. Based on a unique dataset comprising quarterly financial statements reported by 66 Brazilian agricultural cooperatives between 2000 and 2015, our results show that cooperatives...

We study the causal effects of short selling on real earnings management by exploiting an exogenous shock to short selling costs under the pilot program of Regulation SHO. We find the removal of short selling constraints leads to a reduction of real earnings management in pilot firms relative to...

This paper examines whether firms that act socially responsible and have favourable board characteristics engage in a more transparent financial reporting. In particular, the first question is whether firms with high corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement exhibit less earnings...

The aim of this paper is to explain relationship between earning management, corporate governance and managerial optimism through the governance characteristics that are board of directors such as independence, duality and size and ownership structure such as managerial participation, block...

The adoption of the international financial reporting standard (IFRS) has become an important research topic and received considerable attention from many empirical researchers worldwide. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, it's one of the very few efforts to examine the relationship...

This study explores an interesting phenomenon in which some acquirers buy and own targets for a relatively short period of time and then “flip” or resell these targets to other companies for profit. We show that acquisition flippers engage in earnings management to improve the appeal of...

We test whether earnings management (like a virus) spreads from firm to firm via board connections of shared directors (virus carriers). We use earnings restatements to identify firms that managed earnings and to identify the period when these firms manipulated earnings. We consider firms as...

Using 180 manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2004, the paper proves that insiders with controlling interest more than 36.78% increase earnings management (discretionary accruals) by 10.6%. However, they are risk-adverse and avoid inefficient investment after the financial crisis. On the other...

Using 196 Malaysian public listed firms, the study investigates the inter-relationship between executive compensation, earnings management and over investment. Although there is no evidence that executive directors enhance their compensation packages through earnings management, there is a...