This paper investigates the link between earnings management and earnings quality for the Chinese firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2003 to 2007. The earnings quality is measured by four separate earnings attributes: accruals quality, earnings persistence, earnings...

This paper examines whether the duration of equity overvaluation influences managers' choice to use different earnings management mechanisms, and how corporate governance and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's underlying earnings disclosure guidelines influence managers'...

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...

The quality of financial reporting shows how informative the accounting numbers are for decision-making. Because business outlook can influence financial reporting quality, this study examined predictable, moderately predictable and unpredictable business outlooks. The study randomly selected...