We examine whether managers' trading decisions (both at a firm and personal level) are correlated with trading strategies suggested by the operating accruals and the post-earnings announcement drift (SUE) anomalies. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of the use of managerial trading...

Prior research on meeting or beating earnings expectations focuses on managers' incentives to keep stock prices inflated by avoiding negative earnings surprises. However, in certain situations, managers may be motivated to depress stock prices in order to maximize their utility. We hypothesize...

This paper studies the bank's decision on waiver of debt- covenant violations, loan renegotiation, and borrower's dividend policies and accounting choice. It delineates the conditions under which the borrower has an incentive to manipulate accounting information. This study describes a...

This paper reviews recent evidence analyzing the link between earnings management and corporate tax avoidance and considers the implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter...

Although tax values of corporate assets and liabilities can be relevant for economic decisions, they are typically unknown to financial statement users. Tax values permit to conduct empirical studies about exercise of IFRS and tax options. Furthermore, the level of tax loss carryforwards and tax...

Fraudulent financial reporting has become an important issue in accounting profession. The implementation of self assessment system appears as incentives to companies to misstate their financial reports to reduce tax obligation. Fraudulent financial reporting may cause vast losses to government...

This paper examines the effect of tax planning and earnings management on the relative informativeness of book income and taxable income. We conduct two sets of tests documenting (1) the incremental effect of tax planning and earnings management on the relative informativeness of book and...

Dhaliwal, Gleason, and Mills (DGM 2004) document that firms manage earnings through decreases in effective tax rates (ETRs) between the third and fourth quarters. We investigate how firms' investments in tax planning impact this association between ETR changes and earnings management incentives....

Prior research finds little substantial discount for managing earnings to beat analysts' consensus forecasts, but at the earnings announcement date a minority of firms disclose balance sheet data needed to estimate abnormal accruals. We consider whether the market reward for beating the forecast...

We show that the asymmetric effects of income taxes and special items for profit and loss firms contribute substantially to a discontinuity at zero in the distribution of earnings. Income taxes draw profit observations towards zero while negative special items pull loss observations away from...