This study discovers the relation between corporate governance factors and earnings quality and finds that increases in dividends and foreign ownership deter earnings management. The author shows that dividend increases and foreign ownership enhance earnings quality, but they appear to be...

I apply Wang's (2012) earnings forecasting framework to examine if the lower persistence of accruals in an unrestricted model of earnings dynamics (UM) implies the superiority of a restricted model (RM). In particular, I specify reported earnings in terms of respective expected earnings of UM...

It is argued in the literature that accounting conservatism may be used as a substitute for management earnings forecasts (MEFs) to reduce information asymmetry between investors and management (Hui et al., 2009). We document in this study that accounting conservatism serves as a substitute for...

We investigate the implications of voluntary forecasting activity on the persistence of actual reported figures. We further explore the impact of managements' error direction (i.e. pessimistic versus optimistic manager) on the persistence of actual reported figures. We finally explore whether...

In this dissertation, I examine the impact of earnings management and expectations management on the usefulness of earnings and analyst forecasts in firm valuation. Earnings and analyst forecasts are important inputs into accounting valuation models. Their ability to reflect current and predict...