Directors' reports cosmetic treatment: impact of earnings management on financial report readability

2022 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ejaz ◽  
Raja Nabeel Ud Din Jalal ◽  
Um E Roman Fayyaz
Author(s):  
Pupun Tri Wahyuni ◽  
Resti Yulistia Muslim

This research objective is to axamine empirically the influence of earnings management on earnings quality. The study motivated by the controversy of previous study about earnings management and earnings quality. Earnings management was measured by Discretionary Accrual and earnings quality was measured by Earnings Response Coefficient (ERC). The units were 128 (16x8) Quartal financial report in manufacturing companies listed in the Jakarta Stock Exchange, started from the year 2005 up to 2006. The data was collected using purposive sampling method. Statistical method used to test the hypotheses was multiple regressions. The result of the research showed that: the influence of earnings management on earnings quality was negative, sig 0.049. It means that the lower earnings management will be followed by higher earnings quality. This study supported the result of Fetham and Pae (2000), Nelson et al. (2000), Scott (2000), Lobo and Zhou (2001), also Teixeira (2002), Pudjiastuti (2006). 


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Shindy Anisa Putri ◽  
Y Anni Aryani

In recent years, IDX reported that a high number of enterprises’ financial reporting were overdue. Timeliness of financial report is necessary since it is used as the main source of information. This paper aims to investigate several factors affecting timeliness of financial report in Indonesia. Using the purposive sampling technique, this study gained 318 enterprises listed on IDX during 2015 until 2017. The result showed that earnings management index and industrial sector were significantly related to the timeliness of financial report. On the other hand, state ownership do not have significant relation with the timeliness of financial report.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Muljanto Siladjaja ◽  
Yuli Anwar

The purpose of this research is to test investors capability to detect earning management after the period of publication, when the information from financial report plays critical role in investment’s decision. Given the feedback of investor’s reaction, this research provides an empirical model, that point out the earnings management as a message or signal of firm performance, particularly of negative perception on accruals’s opportunisties. This research uses path model analysis and multivariate regression, where the data have been collected from 2.560 observations. The unit of analysis of this research was all the listed companies in the period 20012017. The method of sampling was purposive sampling, which based on annual financial report. The findings of this research showed that all public firms have systematic method for earnings management, by distinguishing the positive and negative accruals, the discretionary accruals have the negative influence on the market value significantly, when we used the earning market ratio. When financial report had high accruals quality, it had positive perception from investors, while estimating the future prospect with high accuracy by obtaining usefulness of financial report. The indicator of earnings management, and working capital had been sensitive for investors, because of accruals in reporting firm’s performance. Keywords: Discretionary Accruals, Working Capital, Dividend Pay Out, Quality of Accruals, Cost of Capital.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Sukiantono Tang ◽  
Wini Alvita

The financial report should report accurate information about the company situation so it can be utilized properly by stakeholders. This study aims to examine the effect of earnings management on stock returns. The data collection of this study used purposive sampling. A total of 1335 data were collected and used as research samples. The data that has been collected is then tested to obtain the results. Furthermore, in analyzing the data, the method used is descriptive statistics. Based on the analysis, the results of this study showed that earnings management has a significant effect on the stock return variable. This is because earnings management practices can trick investors into making investment transactions.


Author(s):  
Yeasy Darmayanti ◽  
Teti Susanti

The practicing of earnings management in banking companies certainly has pro and con's from the stockholders, because it tends to harm the users of information and the service of financial report. This research, therefore, aims to investigate the effect of application of PSAK 50/55 (2006 revision) toward earnings management with corporate governance as the moderating variable. This research was implemented in banking companies that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. This research used 28 banking companies that published financial report in period of 2009 — 2011 completely. The test result indicated that the application of PSAK 50/55 (2006 revision), moderation of foreign ownership, composition of commissioner council, standard of KAP and committee of audit as the moderator did not have any significance effect toward the practicing of earnings management in banking companies that listed in ISE. On the other hand, the application of PSAK 50/55 (Revision 2006) moderated by the KAP size had the positive effect toward practicing of earnings management.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Widyaningsih Azizah

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020 in Indonesia, has certainly had a major impact on the company’s financial performance. The first-quarter financial report should have been able to show the actual condition of the financial company because it can be a projection for investors and analysts regarding the company’s performance in the next period. Unfortunately, many gaps in financial reporting that can provide space for management to commit earnings management. This study aims to prove the difference in earnings management in the Q1 of 2020, namely the period after the COVID-19 pandemic with the Q1 of 2019, namely the period before the COVID-19 pandemic. The data type of the research is secondary data using the financial statements of companies listed on the Indonesian Stock exchange in the Q1 of 2018, the Q1 of 2019, and the Q1 of 2020. The Q1 of 2018 is needed in this research related to the search for the Q1 of the year of 2019 data. Hypothesis testing was conducted using the Wilcoxon test with SPSS 25 software. This research has proven that there is a difference in earnings management in the Q1 of 2019, namely before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Q1 of 2020, named after the COVID-19 pandemic. The level of earnings management during the COVID-19 pandemic represented in the Q1 of 2020 was lower than the earnings management in the period before the COVID-19 pandemic, namely in the Q1 of 2019.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Ayem ◽  
Dewi Yuliana

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of auditor independence, audit quality, earnings management, and independent commissioners on the integrity of financial statements. This research is included in descriptive research. The population in this study are banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during 2014-2017. The sample in this study was determined using a purposive sampling method and obtained 25 companies, samples in the 4 years of the annual financial report. The type of data used is secondary data. To find out the influence between independent variables and the dependent variable using the method of multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that auditor independence has no significant effect, audit quality has no significant effect, earnings management has a significant effect, independent commissioners have a significant effect on the integrity of financial statements.


2022 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Um E Roman Fayyaz ◽  
Muhammad Ejaz ◽  
Raja Nabeel Ud Din Jalal

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Ahmad Haruna Abubakar ◽  
Abubakar Usman ◽  
Peter U Anuforo ◽  
Baba Yagana Alhaji

This study extends existing research on the real earnings management by examining the impacts of audit committee attributes on real earnings management in Nigeria. The analyses involve a sample of 72 non-financial firms with 360 firm-year observations for a five-year period (2014-2018). Data was obtained from the annual reports of these companies as well as from Thompson Reuters and Bloomberg databases. The Panel Corrected Standard Error was used to test the model studied. The finding shows that audit committee size prevent managers’ activities in earnings manipulations. Also, the result establish that the audit committee independence presence on the audit committee control managers’ opportunistic behaviour while audit committee financial expertise were monitors in curtailing earnings manipulation practice.  The findings shall give insight to financial analysts, investors, and regulators on the importance of AC in enhancing the quality of the financial report, also show the role of the audit committee characteristics to deter real earnings manipulations. Keywords: audit committee, size, independence, expertise, earnings management


Author(s):  
Reza Dowlatabadi ◽  
Mahdi Filsaraei

Today, to make investment decisions, investors analyze the stock in the stock market and an information source used by them isthe financial report of the related firms. In some cases, the report may be prepared in accordance with management policies, which is known as an earnings management.Earnings management will affect intelligence value and consequently have negative impact. Due to these issues, in this study, the relationship between VRof earnings, earnings management and corporate governance is discussed. Using a sample of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange and the regression model, the results showed that the ownership of institutional investors has reduced the earnings management, but compared to major shareholders and company's audit by the National Audit Office, it has increased earnings management.The results also show that there is no significant relationship between management and the stock price as an indicator of measuring the VR of earnings.


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