Discretionary accruals

This study aimed to examine the joint effect of auditor’s auditing and training on reducing financial statements’ manipulation Iraqi companies listed in stock exchange. Specifically, this study focuses on the impact of internal training and auditing of internal audit staff on reduction of the rate of manipulation in earnings management practices as depicted by the discretionary accruals. The financial statements for 69 listed companies in the Iraqi Stock Exchange were analyzed in this study in order to achieve these objectives for the period of 2012-2015.

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This study examines supply chain power in the context of real earnings management. Accrualbased models are often used to examine the motives of managers in conducting discretionary accruals. Discretionary accruals by managers has a very broad impact and may mislead users of financial statements. This study analyses and examines the effect of company profitability on discretionary accruals, especially in emerging markets in Indonesia.

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This paper examines the relation between market competition and earnings management in Vietnamese listed firms. By using the absolute value of discretionary accruals as a measure of earnings management, I am able to capture both directions of earnings management, and offer evidence on the impact of heightened competition on earnings management.

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This paper used an ex post facto design to analyze sample of 3600 firm-years. The authors draw heavily from Jones model in estimating normal accrual, which was compared with actual total accrual to determine both upward and downward discretionary accrual behavior of potential outgoing managers and the new board leaders.

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The objective of this research is to study the relationship between corporate debt financing and earnings quality and also to find the dominance of positive influence of debt or negative influence of debt on earnings quality. The research data were collected from 81 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), during the years 2005-2009. For testing the hypotheses, multiple regression analysis was used.

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This article tries to explore earnings management of Taiwanese banking industry. It adjusts the Shen (2008) Model to measure loan loss provision earnings management of banks, and following Jones Model (1991) and Dechow Model (1995) reclassifies non-discretionary and discretionary items to detect accrued earnings management of banks. The empirical results show that banks downward earnings are different to pre-reclassifying discretionary earnings management, and banks employ loan loss provision earnings management upward earnings.

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To improve financial reporting quality, the Chinese government issued the Basic Standard for Enterprise Internal Control in 2008 and other related guidelines/regulations in the following years (hereafter China SOX). The scope of China SOX is broader but similar to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in the U.S. Formal adoptions of China SOX requires management and external auditor’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR).

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Using a sample of firms that restated earnings, this study seeks to evaluate the performance of alternative discretionary accrual models along two dimensions: earnings management detection and accuracy (the ability to accurately estimate the magnitude of managed earnings).

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Applied to the French context, this study examines the unequal impact of conditional conservatism on accrual components. The study’s sample is an unbalanced panel of 331 French companies listed on Euronext Paris during the period time going from 2000 till 2015.

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The objective of this study is to examine the effects of audit firm size and auditor characteristics on firms’ discretionary accruals management of companies listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) and Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX). The results show that the gender of auditors affect discretionary accruals (DA). Female auditors approve DA at a lower value than male auditors.

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This paper examines the effect of corporate governance mechanism on earnings management of 130 enterprises traded on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), Vietnam in 2014. Earnings management is measured by discretionary accruals and corporate governance is characterized by the CEO duality, board size and board independence.

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Nghiên cứu này xem xét tác động của các nhân tố Hội đồng quản trị, quy mô công ty, đòn bẩy tài chính và lợi nhuận trên tổng tài sản (ROA) của công ty đến hành vi quản trị lợi nhuận (QTLN) dựa trên cơ sở dồn tích (Accrualbased Earnings Management). Kết quả nghiên cứu đã chứng minh được rằng độ lớn của HĐQT, tỷ lệ thành viên HĐQT có chuyên môn tài chính, tỷ lệ thành viên nữ thuộc HĐQT có mối quan hệ cùng chiều với biến dồn tích bất thường DA (Discretionary Accruals- đại diện của hành vi QTLN của người quản lý doanh nghiệp).

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Serving New Zealand’s future needs means we have to make sure that the education system performs well for Māori and that the needs of Māori children in education are met. This report describes the history of education policy and developments for Māori, sets out some leading research and statistics, and describes the role of the various government agencies involved in education. Under the Ministry of Education’s Ka Hikitia – Managing for Success strategy, there are many initiatives and programmes to lift Māori participation, engagement, and achievement.

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We use discretionary accruals as a measure of earnings quality (Beneish and Vargus, 2002; Chan, Chan, Jegadeesh, and Lakonishok, 2006). According to the accounting identity, earnings are equal to cash flows plus accruals. Accruals are accounting adjustments designed to better reflect firms’ fundamental operations. However, accruals are subject to managers’ discretion, which may distort reported earnings.

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