scholarly journals The Mediating Effects of Key Audit Matters on the Relationship Between Audit Quality and Earnings Management: Evidence from Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-416
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ahmad Alqam ◽  
Yaser Mohd Hamshari ◽  
Haitham Yousef Ali
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between audit quality and earnings management has not been tested with consideration of key audit matters as a mediating variable. This study examined whether audit quality (AQ) decreases earnings management (EM) in shareholding corporations through improving key audit matters (KAMs) in Jordan’s emerging environment. A regression analysis was carried out on a sample that included financial reports and auditor reports of 105 industrial and service shareholdings companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2017 to 2019. The study found a negative relationship between audit quality and earnings management. The results showed that audit quality increases key audit matters, which, in turn, decreases earnings management. Also, the study confirmed the mediating effect of KAMs between audit quality and earnings management. The study confirms the importance of key audit matters to provide more relevant and useful information for the users of financial reports and provides important indications to the regulatory authorities and standards bodies that key audit matters should be given more attention regarding the way that they are presented and disclosed.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Liquidity and Firms’ Profitability: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazish Bibi ◽  
Shehla Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Current Ratio ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Operating Income ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between firm’s liquidity and profitability; and to find out the effects of different components of liquidity on firms’ profitability.The relationship between liquidity and firms’ profitability is empirically examined by collecting the data of 50 listed firms of Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan. Panel data has been collected from secondary sources for the year 2007 to 2011 .Net operating income and Return on assets are used measure of firm’s profitability. Liquidity of the firm is measured by using cash gap in days and current ratio. Firm size measured by net sales, total assets and market capitalization .The study applies regression analysis to determine factors affecting profitability. Incremental tests are carried out to see the importance of individual variables in the model.The results of correlation and regression analysis showed that there is a significant negative relationship between cash gap and return on assets while current ratio has significant positive relationship with profitability. Results further indicate that log of sales and log of total assets has positive significant relationship with profitability. The findings of this study are based on firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Hence, the results cannot be generalizable to those firms which are not listed on Karachi stock exchange. The sample of the study comprises only the merchandising and manufacturing firms. Banks are excluded due to their nature of work.

The moderating role of audit quality on the relationship between auditor reporting and earnings management: empirical evidence from Tunisia

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhfakh Imen ◽  
Jarboui Anis
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Generalized Least Squares ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Audit Opinions ◽  
Auditor Reporting ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the interrelationship between modified audit opinions and earnings management as measured by discretionary accruals and develop a thorough understanding regarding the moderating effect of audit quality on this relation.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a sample of Tunisian listed firms on the Tunis Stock Exchange during 2006–2013. Four models are developed and tested by using panel logistic and Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) regressions.FindingsThe results show that earnings management increases the likelihood of receiving a modified audit opinions. Then firms receiving modified audit opinions manage earnings more than those receiving clean opinions. It is also discovered that audit quality moderates the relationship between audit opinion and earnings management.Practical implicationsThis paper contributes to the literature of both audit and management studies and represents the first effort to examine the relation between audit opinion and earnings management, with audit quality as a moderating variable.Originality/valueThis study extends existing research on earnings management and audit opinion. Thus, this study has the potential to help stakeholders, board of directors, regulators and auditors, who are related with enhancing the supervision of firms and reducing the opportunities given to managers, to engage in earnings management. It constitutes an addition to previous knowledge about audit opinion in the Tunisian context before and after revolution.

scholarly journals Earnings management determinants: A study of Egyptian listed firm characteristics post the Egyptian revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2, special issue) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
Engy ElHawary ◽  
Dina Hassouna
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Earning Management ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Financial Leverage ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to look at how firm characteristics and audit quality can affect the earning management practices in the Egyptian context, within the period of 2011–2019. This period was after the Egyptian revolution and has not been well investigated in Egypt, especially after the new release of corporate governance rules for listing firms. A sample of 157 non-financial listed companies in the Egyptian stock exchange is selected for achieving the research objective through analysing their financial reports. The panel least squares, using the fixed-effect model, is used to test the hypotheses and investigate the relationship between discretional accruals and firm characteristics, where the dependent variable is the earnings management, measured by the discretionary accruals and the independent variables are the firm characteristics (size, financial leverage, age, survival and audit quality). The results illustrate that the relationship between a firm’s financial leverage and earnings management is positive. This study may help the firms to control their financial leverage for avoiding any earnings management practice. The stakeholders should notice such significant firm characteristics in making their own decisions, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which may expectedly increase the firm financial leverage, and in turn, some earning management practices can be used intentionally to hide the bad firm performance

scholarly journals Cash conversion cycle and corporate performance: evidence from Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
Ciprian Cristea ◽  
Maria Cristea
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Liquidity Management ◽  
Cash Conversion Cycle ◽  
The Relationship

Cash conversion cycle is considered one of the most important measures of management effectiveness, especially the cash flow and liquidity management. This study examines the relationship between cash conversion cycle and corporate profitability for the non-financial companies, from several industries, listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange for a period of fifteen years from 2002 to 2016. The findings from a cross sectional multiple regression analysis pointed out a negative relationship between cash conversion cycle and the performance of firms. Based on the results from this paper it has been concluded that managers can improve the profitability of their firms by decreasing the number of days in cash conversion cycle.

Mediating Effect of Tax Management on the Relationship Between Board of Directors Characteristics and Firm Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 2040022
Author(s):  
Nidal Zaqeeba ◽  
Takiah Mohd Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Tax Management ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
Board Gender Diversity ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims at examining the mediating effect of tax management on the relationship between certain board characteristics including independence, gender diversity, and activeness and firm performance. The sample of the study includes 135 companies in the industrial and service industries listed with Amman Stock Exchange in 2008–2017. This study selects purposive samples using the panel data technique. Results indicate that first, tax management mediates the board independence relationship with financial performance. Second, tax management does not mediate the board gender diversity and board activities relationships respectively with financial performance.

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from Jordan

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Sufian Radwan Almanaseer
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Financial Leverage ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to explore the determinants of the capital structure of the banks listed in the Amman Stock Exchange. A sample of 13 Jordanian commercial banks of 16 banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange selected for the period 2008-2017. The current study applied a fixed-effects regression model by using e-views to analyze the relationship between financial leverage and firm characteristics such as Risk, Size, profitability, Growth, liquidity, Tax, Age, tangibility, and macroeconomic variables such as Gross Domestic Product, Inflation. The study finds a significant positive relationship between financial leverage, age, growth, risk, size, and tax. Also, the study finds a significant negative relationship between financial leverage with GDP, inflation, liquidity, profitability, and tangibility.

Mediating Effect of Facebook® Addiction on the Relationship between Subjective Vitality and Subjective Happiness

2013 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 948-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Recep Uysal ◽  
Seydi Ahmet Satici ◽  
Ahmet Akin
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Subjective Vitality ◽  
Subjective Happiness Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Vitality Scale

This study examined the mediating effects of Facebook® addiction on the relationship between subjective vitality and subjective happiness. 297 university students (157 women, 140 men; M age = 20.1 yr., SD = 1.3) were administered the Facebook® Addiction Scale, the Subjective Vitality Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that Facebook® addiction partially mediated the relationship between subjective vitality and subjective happiness.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Accrual-Based Earnings Management and Real Earnings Management: Reference to the Polish Capital Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Michał Comporek
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Research background: The literature on the subject matter emphasizes the lack of empirical research on the relationships between accrual-based earnings management (AEM) and real earnings management (REM), while studies conducted so far are characterized by highly ambiguous results. Purpose: The main aim of the paper is to present the results of empirical research on the relationships between the AEM and REM practices used to create financial results in industrial public companies listed on the WSE. Research methodology: The research sample concerns 72 listed companies whose shares were traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) for a minimum 13 years in the adopted reference period of 2003–2017. The estimation of AEM and REM practices was made by using: the Jones model, the Kang-Sivaramakrishnan model and the Roychowdhury methodology. Results: The empirical results allowed showing the existence of a statistically significant, negative relationship between discretionary accruals and the abnormal level of an operational cash flow indicator, as well as between discretionary accruals and the total REM indicator. An in-depth cross-sectional analysis showed the existence of significantly differentiated relationships between the studied variables in individual branches of industry. Novelty: Research on the relationship between AEM and REM practices in the context of the Polish capital market has not been carried out so far, hence it can be considered a new research area in which there is a justified need to deepen theoretical and empirical research on the EM phenomenon.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KUALITAS AUDIT DAN AUDITOR SWITCHING TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
FELITA ICASIA HADI ◽  
SHERLY TIFANI
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Negative Direction ◽  
Auditor Switching ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of audit quality and auditor switching on earnings management with fee audit as the intervening variable. Data in this study is secondary data derived from the annual report of listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018. There are 117 sample and the method used for sampling is purposive sampling. The hypothesis ini this study was tested using multiple regression. The result of this study showed that audit quality positively influence fee audit but not significant, auditor switching negatively influence  fee audit, audit quality influence earnings management with negative direction, auditor switching positively influence earnings management but not signifitcant, fee audit negatively influence earnings management but not significant, and there is no influence of variable intervening in the relationship between audit quality and auditor switching on earnings management.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Influence of Managerial Ownership, Audit Quality and Audit Committee on Income Management (Study on Manufacturing Companies in the Consumer Goods Sector Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange 2014-2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 2521-2533
Author(s):  
Sri Ningsih Sitanggang ◽  
Arfan Ikhsan ◽  
Nasirwan Nasirwan
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Manufacturing Companies

This study aims to examine the effect of managerial ownership, audit quality and audit committee on earnings management. The research was conducted at manufacturing companies in the consumer goods sector which were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2018. The sampling technique used purposive sampling technique and obtained 10 companies that became samples. Hypothesis testing is done by using multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that: first, managerial ownership does not have a significant effect on earnings management. It can be seen that the t-count is smaller than the t-table (0.152 <1.678) with a significance value of 0.880> 0.05. Second, audit quality affects earnings management. It can be seen that the t-count is greater than the t-table (2.274> 1.678), with a significance value of 0.028 <0.05. Third, the audit committee has a significant effect on earnings management. It can be seen that the t-count is greater than the t-table (2.894 > 1.6 7 8), with a significance value of 0.006 <0.05. If reviewed together, the three variables of managerial ownership, audit quality, and audit committee have an effect of 25.4% on earnings management.

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