We contribute to the extensive literature on earnings management by examining the impact of earnings management behaviour on executive compensation conditioned on managerial ability. We find that managers with better abilities are associated with more accrual earnings management, less real...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers", with the aim of enhancing transparency to provide fairer representation and inhibit the misuse of revenues to manipulate earnings. During COVID-19,...

In this paper we investigate the relation between the firm's cash conversion cycle and its profitability. This relationship is examined using dynamic panel data analysis for the full sample, by industry and by size. Using a sample of 34771 firm years covering the period 1990-2004, we find a...