Cet article est consacré aux difficultés conceptuelles, méthodologiques et empiriques des modèles d’accruals discrétionnaires. Les principaux modèles utilisés par la littérature sont présentés et discutés. Les problèmes de cohérence de ces modèles entre eux et par rapport au...

This article aims at highlighting the issue of recognition and valuation of assets in the relationship between earnings management and financing choices. This issue has been addressed from a historical approach. The use of history is justified by the characteristics of the period: opening...

Les principes et les règles comptables qui régissent l'élaboration et la présentation des états financiers d'une entreprise (ou d'un groupe) ont pour objet de réduire l'incertitude et l'imprécision qui affectent la mesure du résultat et de la situation financière. Les managers disposent...

(VF)À partir d'un échantillon de 56 changements de dirigeant au sein d'entreprises françaises cotées entre 2000 et 2005, la nature et les facteurs explicatifs des choix comptables effectués par le dirigeant sortant sont analysés. L'étude des accruals discrétionnaires montre que les...

This study investigates the relationship between corporate sustainability performance and earnings management practices in a European setting. We measure earnings management based on discretionary accruals (cash flow approach) and real activity management. Corporate sustainability performance is...

This paper investigates whether corporate social responsibility active (CSR active) firms operate dissimilarly from other firms in their financial reporting. Specifically, we examine whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitude of a firm sways its reporting incentives, in respect...

The aim of the paper is to assess the effect of discretionary accruals on firm growth while controlling for firm characteristics and macroeconomic environment. Employing a large sample of 1.105 young and high-growth firms (gazelles) from 15 emerging European countries over the period 2006-2014,...

We show that firms 'in danger' of being delisted from a stock market (NASDAQ) report higher performance-adjusted discretionary accruals and the inflated accruals are associated with an increased likelihood of maintained listing. Accruals of firms 'in danger' are less positive in fiscal quarters...

The present paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of shareholder activism on earnings management. Specifically, it is focused on investigating the moderating role of an external governance mechanism such as external audit quality. Based on a sample of French companies...

Following Zhang (Accounting Review, 2007) we cast firm accruals in terms of short-term investment. Since many studies consider accruals as a smoothed measure of cash flows, we first adopt Zhang specification and augment the standard Jones model with a cash-flow variable. Second, if accruals are...