This study investigates the relation between corporate governance and earnings management around UK rights issues. We examine the effect of board structure, ownership structure, adviser structure, and capital structure on discretionary current accruals — a proxy for earnings management — for...

Financial Reporting Standard No3 (FRS 3): Reporting Financial Performance, which came into force in 1993, increased UK firms’ discretion in classifying exceptional items. We examine how this increased discretion affected their use of classificatory smoothing and inter-temporal smoothing...