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We examine how compensation of chief executive officer (CEO) and corporate governance practices affect earnings management behavior in an emerging economy, Pakistan. Using 1836 firm-year observations from 260 firms listed in KSE for period 2005 to 2012, we do not find that CEO compensation has...
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Purpose: This study examines the moderating impact of corporate governance quality on the relation between CEO bonus compensation and accounting conservatism. Design/methodology/approach: We use market-based and accrual-based measures to estimate accounting conservatism. According to prior...
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Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders …. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm …'s reported earnings. The previous literature has focused primarily on Chief Executive Officers, but managers further down in the …
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The current study investigates how board gender diversity moderates the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms (CG) and earnings management (EM) practices of firms in sub-Saharan Africa. The study samples annual reports and financial statements of 52 firms from nine sub-Saharan...
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