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Tác giả CN Seraina C. Anagnostopoulou
Nhan đề The effect of financial leverage on real and accrual-based earnings management / Seraina C. Anagnostopoulou, Andrianos E. Tsekrekos
Thông tin xuất bản 2017.
Mô tả vật lý p. 191-236.
Tóm tắt Past research has documented a substitution effect between real earnings management (RM) and accrual-based earnings management (AM), depending on relative costs. This study contributes to this research by examining whether levels of (and changes in) financial leverage have an impact on this empirically documented trade-off. We hypothesise that in the presence of high leverage, firms that engage in earnings manipulation tactics will exhibit a preference for RM due to a lower possibility – and subsequent costs – of getting caught. We show that leverage levels and increases positively and significantly affect upward RM, with no significant effect on income-increasing AM, while our findings point towards a complementarity effect between unexpected levels of RM and AM for firms with very high leverage levels and changes. This is interpreted as an indication that high leverage could attract heavy outsider scrutiny, making it necessary for firms to use both forms of earnings management in order to achieve earnings targets. Furthermore, we document that equity investors exhibit a significantly stronger penalising reaction to AM vs. RM, indicating that leverage-induced RM is not as easily detectable by market participants as debt-induced AM, despite the fact that the former could imply deviation from optimal business practices.
Thuật ngữ không kiểm soát debt
Thuật ngữ không kiểm soát leverage
Thuật ngữ không kiểm soát market performance
Thuật ngữ không kiểm soát real earnings management
Thuật ngữ không kiểm soát accrual-based earnings management
Tác giả(bs) CN Andrianos E. Tsekrekos
Nguồn trích Accounting and Business Research - Volume 47, 2017 - Issue 2
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