Purpose This study examines whether Brazilian health insurance companies (HICs) engage in earnings management through discretionary accruals or operational decisions by refraining from reporting a low indicator of sustainability in the market (IDSM). Design/methodology/approach The study used...

This paper has the purpose to present empirical evidence that Brazilian public companies practice earnings management as a response to capital market incentives. After a brief literature review, it will be documented evidences that Brazilian public companies manage their earnings to: a) Avoid...

Income smoothing is a longstanding practice under the more general category of earnings management. As the name suggests, it consists of smoothing out the fluctuations of the income series. This article examines the association between the ownership and control structure, level of corporate...

Income smoothing is defined as the deliberate normalization of income in order to reach a desired trend. If the smoothing causes more information to be reflected in the stock price, it is likely to improve the allocation of resources and can be a critical factor in investment decisions. This...

Using data from Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, we investigated the statistical properties of analysts' quarterly earnings projections in the years around the adoption of IFRS in Brazil (2007 to 2011). Characteristics such as accuracy, bias and precision of analysts' forecasts are useful in different...