30602, e-mail: nburns@uga.edu. Kedia is at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163, e-mail: skedia@hbs.edu. This paper combines the results of two earlier papers: “Does performance-based compensation explain restatements” by Natasha Burns and “Do Executive Stock Options Generate Incentives for Earnings Management? Evidence from Accounting Restatements” by Simi Kedia. We thank Jean Helwege, Andrew Karolyi, and René Stulz for their comments and advice. We also thank Jim Hsieh, Kose
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Target Financial Reporting Quality and M&A Deals that Go Bust* HOLLIS A. SKAIFE, University of Wisconsin–Madison DANIEL D. WANGERIN, Michigan State University 1. Introduction This study investigates whether target firms’ financial reporting quality affects the likelihood that merger and acquisition (M&A) deals will ultimately be terminated. Managers looking to increase their market share, enter new markets, or diversify their operations will consider acquiring another company based on the company’s
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Financial Statement Insurance This is a proposal to increase the effectiveness of corporate governance in the post-Enron era through the implementation of financial statement insurance. This paper gives a brief history of the purpose of financial statements as well as the importance of external auditing of financial statements. It gives examples of the corporate governance failures of companies like Enron and WorldCom. It covers how and why these failures happened and reviews the grave consequences
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mainly focused on the earnings management in oil and gas industry and we used Jones model to detect discretionary accruals in the subject companies. Specifically, we examined three oil and gas sample companies that have been required to restate their financial reports due to the oil reserve overestimation. After running the regression and comparing statistics with other oil and gas companies, we found that the sample companies do revise oil reserves to manipulate the DDA expenses, thus achieving their
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Introduction The purpose of this research assignment is to analyze accounting quality in regards to the requirements set forth by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and SEC reporting requirements for publically traded corporations. Specifically, this paper analyzes the roles of the Board of Directors (BOD) and CEO’s regarding the establishment of an ethical workplace environment, which generates quality accounting information to be used by shareholders and other investors. Next, a proposed strategy will
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Available online 4 November 2010 Researchers have used various measures as indications of ‘‘earnings quality’’ including persistence, accruals, smoothness, timeliness, loss avoidance, investor responsiveness, and external indicators such as restatements and SEC enforcement releases. For each measure, we discuss causes of variation in the measure as well as consequences. We reach no single conclusion on what earnings quality is because ‘‘quality’’ is contingent on the decision context. We also
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Before You Sue The Accountants Daniel J. Hurson Even if it looks like a strong case, be careful—there are some surprising defenses. IN THE WAKE OF the corporate accounting scandals that have dominated the business news for the last few years, as well as recurring announcements of large settlements in class action suits against major accounting firms, the prospect of a malpractice case against an accounting firm would at first glance seem attractive. Juries are presumably more predisposed to
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-------------------------------------------------------- page 3 Verizon Communication, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------ page 4 Restatement of Leap Wireless ------------------------------------------------------------ page 4 Analysis in Accounting Policies and Disclosure Practices --------------------------- page 6 Comparative Analysis of the Financial Statements ------------------------------------ page 8 Governance Structures ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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However, the interesting feature is that some compromise in the profession of accounting services by Andersen's was notable, given that there are noteworthy feature of stock manipulation, especially in financial statements of Enron attended and audited by Andersen's. The statement and restatement of Enron also gives some probable indication for manipulation of accounting, where debate and counter debate in that regard from the prying eye of the media was a common feature. Thus, the involvement of
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Othman Wan Nordin Wan Hussin Faudziah Hanim Fadzil School of Accountancy Universiti Utara Malaysia Sintok, 06010 Kedah Malaysia. Abstract Cooking the books refers to fraudulent accounting activities undertaken by a business to falsify its financial statements. Thus, the objectives of this study are to investigate what the cooking-the-books activities carried out by businesses consist of, how they conduct them, and what the impact is on the business and its shareholders. The case study sample companies
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