Earnings Management Eli Mudrick Professor David Heier, CPA, MBA 11 June 2014 Earning Management This paper looks at the speech entitles “The ‘Numbers Game’” that SEC chairman Arthur Levitt delivered at the NYU Center for Law and Business regarding earnings management in 1998. While companies use many techniques and illusions to improve their numbers, this paper will only look at three: “Cookie-Jar” Reserves, “Big Bath” Charges, and Revenue Recognition. After discussing and using real world
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Nopember 2000: 104 – 115 EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: SUATU TELAAH PUSTAKA Tatang Ary Gumanti Dosen Fakultas Ekonomi Jurusan Manajemen dan Akuntansi - Universitas Jember ABSTRAK Earnings management atau manajemen laba merupakan suatu fenomena baru yang telah menambah wacana perkembangan teori akuntansi. Istilah manajemen laba muncul sebagai konsekuensi langsung dari upaya-upaya manajer atau pembuat laporan keuangan untuk melakukan manajemen informasi akuntansi, khususnya laba (earnings), demi kepentingan pribadi
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2 Corinthians 4 - IVP New Testament Commentaries Resources » Commentaries » 2 Corinthians » Chapter 4 » exegesis View 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 * * * * * God's Power Is Made Known Through Ministerial Hardships Virtually every archaeological dig in the Middle East has unearthed innumerable pieces of pottery from earliest civilization forward. Pottery seems to have been a favorite material for fashioning a wide variety of utensils. It was not a costly material. The well-to-do
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Accounting fraud is a fraud or irregularities occurring because of the interests of certain parties in a company. Accounting fraud also occurs due to protect the interests or reputation of the company to obscure the eyes of outsiders. This act is illegal and shows unethical behavior because it does not show the transparency and integrity of a company in presenting its financial statements in order to grab the attention of outsiders to invest in the company or to preserve the reputation of companies
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29 July 2015 “Ethics and Its Ties to Earnings Management” INTRODUCTION Many professionals and accounting researchers have raised the question -Is ethics directly linked to the practice of earnings management? Earnings management is defined by Beaudoin, Cianci, and Tsakumis (2012, p.507), as “the manipulation of revenues and/or expenses to obtain a desired financial reporting outcome.” He and Yang’s article offers that the definition of earnings management is “a process in which managers use judgment
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Managers engage in different ways to manage their earnings. They take on a specific pattern depending on the economic condition or their characteristic – that is, whether they are risk-averse or not. In the next few slides, I will describe four different patterns of earnings management: taking a bath, income minimization, income maximization, and income smoothing. Taking a Bath pattern can take place during period of organizational stress or when a company is undergoing major reorganization. In
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The Ethics of Earnings Management: The Case of Income Smoothing James Gaa University of Alberta May 2007 Information Asymmetry In Most Situations, People Do Not Have the Same Information Management Inevitably Has Information that Would be Useful to Investors – and other Stakeholders In Financial Reporting: Information Asymmetry Follows Immediately from the Separation of Ownership and Management May 2007 The Ethics of Earnings Management 2 1 Corporate Transparency (OECD)
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Issue: Earnings Management 3.1 Definition of Earnings Management A commonly acknowledged definition of earning management by Healy and Wahlen (1999) demonstrates that managers implement personal judgement in financial reporting and transactions to manipulate financial reports for misleading some investors about a company’s financial performance or influencing contractual outcomes that reply on the numbers. Based on several researches, Lawrence (2009) concludes that earnings management generally
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Perceptions of Earnings Management Marshall Geiger and Joyce van der Laan Smith ABSTRACT: In this study we examine the effect of stakeholder orientation versus shareholder orientation, and the level of cultural secrecy on individuals’ perceptions of earnings management practices. Examining perceptions from 1,260 participants from 13 countries indicates that individuals from stakeholder-oriented institutional backgrounds were less accepting of earnings management, including both accounting earnings management
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Empirical research on the impact of fair value measurements on earnings management analysis Contents Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background and hypothesis 3. Literature review 4、Methodology 5. Sample selection and description 6. The test on the earnings management universality 7. The Impact of the Fair Value Application on Earnings Management 7.1 Correlation Analysis of the Main Variables 7.2 The Empirical Test of Linear Regression Equation 8. Limitation 9. Summary References Appendix
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