Li, Donglin - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 42 (2014) 1, pp. 1-28
, find that the growth and accounting distortion components of accruals are not isolated. Growth may provide a context where … firms have more incentives to manipulate earnings. I provide evidence that the persistence of both the growth and accounting … distortion components of accruals is affected by firm growth and agency cost factors, such as free cash flows, leverage, and …