The aim of the study is to examine the effect of board size on earnings quality in government-linked and non-linked firms quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Discretionary Accruals (DACC), Earnings Predictability (EPRED) and Earnings Persistence (EPSIS) are used as measures for earnings...

By combining Empirical Distribution Approach (EDA) and Discretionary Accruals Approach (DAA) with data including 2,949 observations of 295 Vietnamese listed companies from 2006 to 2016, we provide evidence that the firms have conducted earnings management behavior to avoid losses but have not...

The aim of this study was to investigate two aspects of accounting information that may be inherently related: income smoothing practices and conditional conservatism. Theoretically, the more a firm employs income smoothing, i.e., uses accruals to reduce the variability of profits, the less...

Researchers have well documented the positive effects of innovation on growth and productivity. However, innovation might be associated with unexpected consequences, especially in term of earnings quality. In this paper, we employ the Bayesian linear regression to shed light on the relationship...