This study examines the factors influencing managerial decisions between accrual-based earnings management (AEM) and real earnings management (REM) following the mandatory adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) among firms listed on the Italian stock exchange. By analyzing the...

This study investigates the impact of US political sanctions on the earnings management practices of Iranian listed firms. Employing a difference-in-differences methodology and utilizing empirical data from 2013 to 2022, the study demonstrates that sanctions do not significantly influence...

The report presents an analysis of the adoption and implementation of accrual accounting in the public sector to explore its role in providing information on fiscal sustainability, informing economic analysis, and supporting policy decision-making. The analysis examines the benefits and...

This study is conducted to investigate the relationship between earnings management (EM), audit quality (AQ) and qualified opinion of financial statements (AO) of listed firms on Vietnam Stock Exchange. Data were collected from 499 listed firms from 2018 to 2020 with 1,497 observations, of which...

This study examines the relationship between auditing factors and earnings management practices. Specifically, it inves- tigates the effects of audit opinion and audit firm size on earnings management. The methodology is a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses. We constructed...

This paper aims to analyse the mitigating effects of external audit quality (EAQ) factors on earnings management (EM) practices. Data were collected from firms listed on Bursa Malaysia's main market, covering the years 2011 through 2022. Panel regression was employed to analyse the data. The...

This research aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the prospective advantages of implementing accrual accounting in countries where such a transition is underway, with a focus on Italian municipalities. The research seeks to ascertain the requisite conditions, in public sector accounting...

While financial statements are the primary source of information about a firm, they tend to be under earnings management practices, namely to avoid paying tax. Therefore, we aim to examine whether taxes still affect earning persistence in an era of prevalent digital information. For that...

We examine the role of firms’ life cycle stages on accrual quality. We expand evidence from prior studies that investigate the properties of firm life cycle and accrual quality in an integrated approach. We find that growth and mature firms report higher quality of accruals than firms in the...

This technical assistance report on Belize focuses on transition to accrual accounting. Belize is planning to transition to accrual accounting over the medium term. This reform is considered an advanced practice on the public financial management (PFM) spectrum and has been attempted by few...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of clawback to minimize earnings management due to moral disengagement tendencies. To understand the phenomenon of earnings manipulation, as well as the propensity for moral disengagement, we turn to the agency theory and the social...

This paper examines the implication of investor sentiment for the pricing of discretionary or abnormal accruals. We consider a setting where the market-wide investor sentiment information can provide a profitable trading strategy to generate an excess risk-adjusted return from abnormal accrual...

This study aims to examine whether family control has a positive effect on earnings management of manufacturing companies and whether leverage weakens the positive effect of family control on earnings management. This study uses panel data for the 2015-2019 observation year. The research...