We examine whether the information content of the earnings report, as captured by the earnings response coefficient (ERC), increases when investors' uncertainty about the manager's reporting objectives decreases, as predicted in Fischer and Verrecchia (2000). We use the 2006 mandatory...

Previous literature investigates links between corporate social responsibility (CSR), earnings management (EM), and firm performance (FP) but has looked at pair-wise relations (CSR-EM, CSR-FP, and EM-FP) for one-way effects without considering endogeneity among the variables. We examine these...

We study the links between conditional conservatism and voluntary disclosure of management private information. We argue that conditional conservatism acts as a mechanism that lends credibility to voluntary disclosure by providing a hard reporting benchmark that allows outsiders to better...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of earnings management (EM) on firm financial performance contingent on corporate governance quality (CGQ) systems of firms in sub-Saharan Africa during the period 2007–2019. The study adopts a blend of analysis techniques ranging from static...

We study how secular culture affects firm behavior when formal institutions fall short. We find that firms more exposed to alcohol-related sin culture exhibit more earnings management and lean their operations more toward local business partners. Tests using latitude and snow/temperature as...

This study aims to investigate the relationship earnings management and mechanisms of good corporate governance (managerial ownership, institutional ownership, public ownership, the audit committee, board size, and proportion of independent board) on the disclosure of corporate social...

Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and are dispersed across various sections of the 10-K. Excluding them from...

This paper aims at examining the effect of corporate social responsibility on earnings management in the Indonesian banking industry. Using Indonesian publicly listed banking firms in the years of 2013-2015 as the sample, we generate 94 firmyear observations as the final sample. The results show...

This study uses restatements to reveal the poor quality of past accounting information reported within China’s capital market. We show that up to a quarter of listed firms in mainland China explicitly admitted the poor quality of their financial information by restating their previous...

The paper analyses the timing of disclosing financial statements for small and medium enterprises (SME) in Germany in 2007 and 2008. Comparisons of different regional areas and different company sizes are made and possible explanations for the results discussed. -- Rechnungslegungspolitik ;...