Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the motivations of earnings management and financial aggressiveness levels in the big 100 companies listed on the NASDAQ 100 after the 2007 financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses two samples. The first contains 471...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of corporate governance structure and CEO compensation on the level of tax aggressiveness. Design/methodology/approach This work analyzes a sample of 471 observations of 100 companies listed on the NASDAQ 100 for the period 2008-2012. It...