scholarly journals Deferred tax and earnings management under MASB 25

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Noor Hasimah M. Yacob ◽  
Nor'azam Mastuki ◽  
Rohaya Md Noor
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Management Behavior ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Deferred Tax ◽  
Accounting For Income Taxes

This paper investigates whether Malaysian publicly listed companies in 10 sectors use deferred tax and discretionary accruals as tools to manage earnings in order to meet earning targets: 1) to avoid an earning decline and 2) to avoid a loss. This research examines financial statements prepared during the period 2003 to 2005 when the Malaysian Accounting Standard Board (MASB) 25 Accounting for Income Taxes was in place. This study uses Burgstahler and Dichev's approach to identify earnings management firms. Healy's model and a modified Jones model are also employed to identify and separate accruals. The results show no evidence that deferred tax has been used by firms as a tool to manage earnings during the period of study. The finding suggests that the implementation of the MASB 25 (now known as Financial Reporting Standard (FRS) 112), which is more comprehensive and specific than lAS 12, has reduced the use of deferred tax by firms in managing their earnings. In contrast, the findings of this study provide evidence that firms use discretionary accruals to avoid reporting losses. The results ofthis study may be of use to researchers studying earnings management behavior and for standard setters with regard to establishing and monitoring standards.

Federal public finance accounting standard “Employee Payments”

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Olga Shinkareva
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Employee Benefits ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Disclosure Of Information

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Federal Accounting Standard of Public Finance “Payments to Personnel”, which will be applied in the conduct of accounting and reporting from January 1, 2021, including medical state and municipal institutions. The article considers the main provisions of this standard — peculiarities of recognition and evaluation of objects of personnel benefits accounting, termination of their recognition, as well as disclosure of information on objects of personnel benefits accounting in accounting financial statements. This standard is compared with the International Public Sector Financial Reporting Standard 39 “Employee Benefits”

Impairment reversals: unbiased reporting or earnings management

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongyu Cao ◽  
Hasnah Shaari ◽  
Ray Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Support ◽  
A Company

Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence that will inform the convergence debate regarding accounting standards. The authors assess the ability of impairment reversals allowed under International Accounting Standard 36 but disallowed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to provide useful information about a company. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a sample of 182 Malaysian firms that reversed impairment charges and a matched sample of firms which chose not to reverse their impairments. Further analysis examines if reversing an impairment charge is associated with motivations for and evidence of earnings management. Findings The authors find no evidence that the reversal of an impairment charge marks a company out as managing contemporaneous earnings. However, they document evidence that firms with high levels of abnormal accruals and weak corporate governance avoid earnings decline by reversing previously recognized impairments. In addition, companies that have engaged in big baths as evidenced by high accumulated impairment balances and prior changes in top management, use impairment reversals to avoid earnings declines. Research limitations/implications The results of this study support both the informative and opportunistic hypotheses of impairment reversal reporting using Financial Reporting Standard 136. Practical implications The results also demonstrate how companies that use impairment reversals opportunistically can be identified. Originality/value The results support IASB’s approach to the reversal of impairments. They also provide novel evidence as to how companies exploit a cookie-jar reserve created by a prior big bath opportunistically.

Does the IFRS improve earnings quality? A comparison of Turkish GAAP and IFRS

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aydın Karapınar ◽  
Figen Zaif
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Difference

Purpose The purpose of this study is to reveal the effect on earnings quality of switching to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from Turkish generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by comparing two sets of financial statements based on Turkish GAAP and IFRS. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on mathematical modeling. The variables (total assets, net income, total accruals, cash receivables, return on assets and size) in the models are core to the quantitative research that examines the relationship between them. In this study, the total accruals are computed based on the indirect approach, and the prediction error of the model represents discretionary accruals that reflect earnings management. The data set includes financial data prepared under IFRS and Turkish GAAP. The univariate and multivariate analyses are conducted by SPSS. Findings The results of this study indicate that IFRS does not cause any significant differences in total assets, but the net income under IFRS is larger compared to that under the Turkish GAAP. It is also found that while there is no significant difference in total accruals, there is a difference in discretionary accruals. In other words, Turkish firms use income-reducing discretionary accruals when adopting IFRS. Originality/value This study provides more insights into the effect of IFRS on earnings quality. It also provides evidence of the effect of accounting culture on IFRS adoption. As a code-law country in Turkey, publicly traded firms have to prepare financial statements based on both Turkish GAAP, which is rule-based and restricts management decisions with strict rules, and the principle-based IFRS which leaves more room to manipulate. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that reveals the effect of accounting standards on earnings management by comparing two sets of financials of the same period prepared under different standards.

INCOME TAX ALLOCATION: THE CONTINUING CONTROVERSY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally M. Schultz ◽  
Roxanne T. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Retrospective Account ◽  
Deferred Tax ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Accounting For Income Taxes

The appropriate means of accounting for income taxes on financial statements has been among the most hotly debated and frequently recycled issues of the past 50 years. This retrospective account begins with the issuance of the first professional standards during the 1930s and 1940s, and illustrates how theoretical arguments, developed in professional and academic journals during the 1950s, were subsequently recycled and revised during later decades. The problems that led to reconsideration of the deferred tax issue by both the APB during the 1960s and the FASB during the 1980s and 1990s are discussed, as are the solutions offered by these standard setters.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Adopsi International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) Terhadap Manajemen Laba Dengan Kualitas Audit Sebagai Variabel Moderasi Pada Perusahaan Perbankan Di Bursa Efek Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 076-084
Author(s):  
Sutarti . ◽  
Sherly Anggwikara
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standard ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Effect

The term earnings management arises as a direct consequence of the efforts of managers performing management accounting information, particularly relating to income (earnings). Earning management can not be categorized as a negative because earnings management is not always related to earnings manipulation. At the same time, Indonesia is required to abide by the development of IFRS-based accounting standards. It aims to improve the reliability, fairness, and transparency of financial statements in accordance with international accounting standards.The purpose of this study was (1) to determine how to measure earnings management in the banking company, (2) to determine whether or not the effect of the adoption of IFRS on earnings management, as well as to determine the effect of IFRS adoption when using variable moderation. Moderating variables used in this study include the quality of the audit, while the control variables are firm size, leverage, and operating cash flow. The research on banking companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange as many as 25 companies with a term of five years from the year 2009 to 2013 financial reporting. Data collected by collecting all the financial statements that the research samples that can diakes through IDX website. This study analysis uses multiple regression analysis with SPSS 17. Results showed there were positive effects of the adoption of IFRS on earnings management. Audit quality has a negative effect. The size of the company has a negative effect on earnings management. Leverage is measured by using a formula of debt to equity, showing the results of positive effect on earnings management.

scholarly journals International Financial Reporting standard for Small and Medium-sized entities

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Z Koppeschaar
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
International Accounting Standards ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Small Company ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard

<p>The International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized entities (IFRS for SMEs) was published as a standard by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) during July 2009. During 2007 South Africa became one of the first countries and the first country in Africa to early accept the proposed accounting standard (exposure draft of an IFRS for SMEs). The accounting standard will probably also be accepted by numerous other countries. The aim of this article is to investigate the applicability of this accounting standard. The results indicated that the IFRS for SMEs remains too comprehensive for the majority of small companies. The IFRS for SMEs does not satisfy the needs of South African users of small company financial statements, and as a result the accounting requirements should be simplified.</p><p><strong>KEYWORDS:</strong> Financial accounting; Financial reporting requirements; IFRS for SMEs; Small companies; Users of financial statements; Small company financial statements.</p>

scholarly journals The credibility of earnings announced by new stock companies: accrual and real earnings management

Equilibrium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-677
Author(s):  
Tomasz Sosnowski
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Initial Public Offering ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
The Impact

Research background: An initial public offering (IPO) creates an excellent opportunity to research the impact of changes in the institutional environment of companies on the trustworthiness of the information disclosed in financial statements. Purpose of the article: The main aim of the study is to analyze the use of accrual and real earnings management to inflate earnings, revenue, or total assets around the going public event. Therefore, this paper contributes to the stream of study on the quality of financial reporting of new stock companies. Methods: Two main approaches reflect the use of various types of earnings management activities, i.e., discretionary accruals and real earnings management. In both cases, it was necessary to use proper OLS method estimated models to identify the normal level of categories that affect the results reported in financial statements. Findings & value added: Based on a sample of 183 IPOs from the Warsaw Stock Exchange between 2005 and 2015, generally, managers of newly-listed companies actively use discretionary accruals, reduce production costs and certain discretionary expenses, and abnormal cash flows from operations ? i.e., all proxies of earnings management used in the paper ? in the periods around the IPO. In the period prior to the IPO, managers more often introduce techniques typical of the real sphere of the company's operations, in particular, the deliberate modeling of certain discretionary costs. In turn, the use of discretionary accruals dominates in the year after the IPO.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Implementasi Asi International Financial Reporting Standard dalam Rangka Indeks Gray Leverage terhadap Pengungkapan Laporan Keuangan

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Desi Efrianti ◽  
Yanto .
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Disclosure ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standard ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Financial Reports

Disclosure of financial statements is a mean of delivering information by the company’s internal to stakeholders outside of the company. On this globalization era, IASC (International Accounting Standard Committee) tries to create a custom standard for all in order to financial statement can be understood by all users in different countries, and so the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standard) is published. It certainly brings a big impact on accounting study in Indonesia. One of those is about convergence of IFRS into PSAK as base of financial reporting as one form of disclosure to stakeholders outside of the company. This study was conducted to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of the implementation IFRS on the disclosure of financial statements as measured by leverage in this case the Gray index. The populations in this study are all listed banks in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period of 2009-2014. Sample was 30 banking firms selected using purposive sampling method with predetermined criteria. Independent variable is in the form of leverage Gray index. Analysis used in this study is a descriptive analysis and simple linear regression analysis with SPSS as tool for calculation. The result showed the implementation of IFRS in the leverage Gray index has no effect on financial disclosure. Conclusions of the research are implementation of IFRS itself has effect on the financial disclosure but Gray index leverage has no significant effect under the IFRS standards. Result from t-test value is -0.122 and smaller than t-table value of 2.048. Thus, the variable of Gray index leverage is not recommended to be used to measure the width of financial reports disclosures under the standards of IFRS. There are still many aspects to be studied to determine the effect of accounting standards using other representations of company characteristics.

scholarly journals Earning Management Analysis before and after Implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): Empirical Study of Automotive and Components Companies Registered on the IDX

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
I Wayan Wisnu Utama ◽  
Anis Purwanti
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Reporting Standards ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Before And After

  The issue of the application of IFRS as a standard can encourage a decrease in the level of earnings management in a company so that the application of IFRS in financial statements has the purpose of providing reports that are faithful in nature so that the report users are reliable. The purpose of this study is to show a comparison of earnings management practices that occurred before and after the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Automotive and Component companies registered in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the period of 2009-2014. The data used in this study are secondary data in the form of the company’s financial statements. The variables in this study are earnings management before and after IFRS implementation. The sampling method in this study was purposive sampling with a sample of 12 automotive and component companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Discretionary accruals of Modified Jones Model is used to measure the earnings management. The analytical method used for hypothesis testing is Paired Sample T-test, a different test for two paired samples. The results of this study indicate that earnings management in the period after IFRS convergence was different than earnings management in the period before IFRS convergence in Automotive and Component companies. However, IFRS convergence has not guaranteed a decline in earnings management practices in Automotive and Component companies.  Keywords: Earnings Management, International Financial Reporting Standard, Discretionary Accrual

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