scholarly journals Ownership Structure and Real Earnings Management: Evidence from Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Ahmad Haruna Abubakar ◽  
Ahmad Muhammed Lawal ◽  
Mohamed Ismail Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique ◽  
Reported Earnings

Financial statements are expected to assist users in decision making by reporting the true and fair value of companies. However, there always exists the potential risks of manipulations of the reported results if the numbers were intentionally prepared to misrepresent the actual performance or conditions of the companies. Manipulating the reported earnings to achieve pre-set objectives is an art known as earnings management which can be classified into real or accrual manipulations. This study examines the effects of ownership structures (managerial, institutional, and foreign) on real earnings management in Nigeria. The analyses involve a sample of 72 non-financial firms with 360 firm-year observations for a period 2014-2018. Data was collected from the financial reports of these companies, Thompson Reuters, and Bloomberg databases. The multiple regression technique was employed for panel data analysis. The results show that managerial ownership increase management’s desire to manipulate the reported earnings, while institutional ownership have insignificant relationship with real earnings management. Also, the findings reveal that foreign ownership prevent managers’ from manipulating the financial statement. Thus, the study recommends that listed companies in Nigeria should consider higher percentage of foreign ownership to improve their monitoring and have quality financial statement.

PENGARUH MANAJEMEN LABA TERHADAP ABNORMAL RETURN

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zirman Zirman ◽  
Lily Lily
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Abnormal Return ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Discretionary Accrual ◽  
Stock Price Reaction ◽  
Flow Components

This research investigates the consequence of earnings management by analyzing stock price reaction to the full set financial statement in 2008 which can be used by investors to detect earnings management by the firms. This research investigated two forms of earnings management (accrual and real earnings management). The samples is drawn from firms in IDX Statistic 2008 which categorized as active in frequency, value or volume. The method of analysis of this research used multi regression. The results show (1) discretionary accrual had negative significant influence to abnormal return, (2) abnormal cash flow from operation had negative significant influence to abnormal return. The results implicate that the investors are aware of the accrual earnings management (discretionary accrual) and real earnings management (abnormal cash flow) components in the earnings reported by the firms and they react negative to this components.

scholarly journals The effect of financial distress and earnings management on tax aggressiveness with corporate governance as the moderating variable

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Ratih Pujirahayu Nugroho ◽  
Sutrisno T Sutrisno ◽  
Endang Mardiati
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committees ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Tax Aggressiveness

This study aims to verify the correlation between financial distress and earnings management of tax aggressiveness moderated by corporate governance. This study uses a population of manufacturing companies that publish their financial statement on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2017 until 2018. Sample collection was performed using a purposive sampling method, resulting in a total of 212 populations that published complete financial reports. This study was tested by using the Multiple Regression Analysis test. This research gave empirical proofs that financial distress and real earnings management positively influenced the tax aggressiveness was supported, the proportion of independent commissioners weakened the financial distress and negatively impacted the tax aggressiveness was supported, the total audit committees weakened the financial distress and negatively influenced the tax aggressiveness was not supported, the proportion of independent commissioners and total audit committees weakened the real earnings management and negatively affected the tax aggressiveness was not supported

scholarly journals The Impact of Financial Statement Comparability on Earnings Management: Evidence from Frontier Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Wil Martens ◽  
Prem W. S. Yapa ◽  
Maryam Safari
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Developed Markets ◽  
Accounting Comparability ◽  
The Impact

This paper examined whether financial statement comparability constrains opportunistic earnings management in frontier market countries. Using a large sample of 19 frontier market countries, and an accounting comparability method that maps comparability across several accounting standards, the results show that enhanced financial comparability constrains accruals earnings management (AEM). Contrary to developed markets and novel to this study, a significant relationship between financial comparability and real earnings management (REM) was not found. For greater robustness, AEM and REM were also tested on both International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adopting and non-adopting countries. The results suggest IFRS adoption constrains AEM, yet exhibited no impact on constraining REM. Additionally, the use of BigN auditors failed to conclusively show an ability to moderate EM. When combined, the results suggest that frontier markets engage in less REM than expected. It is also noted that the legal roots (civil vs. common law) play a significant role in constraining earnings management. Common law countries exhibited lower AEM when comparability increased; this significance was not found in countries that were rooted in civil law. Contributions from this study show that findings from developed markets cannot be generalised to frontier markets.

The Relationship between Aggressive Real Earnings Management and Current and Future Audit Fees

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Greiner ◽  
Mark J. Kohlbeck ◽  
Thomas J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Pricing Behavior ◽  
Reported Earnings ◽  
The Relationship

SUMMARY We examine the relationship between aggressive income-increasing real earnings management (REM) and current and future audit fees. Managers pursue REM activities to influence reported earnings and, as a consequence, alter cash flows and sacrifice firm value. We posit that the implications of REM are considered in auditors' assessments of engagement risk related to the client's economic condition and result in higher audit fees. We find that, with the exception of abnormal reductions in SG&A, aggressive income-increasing REM is positively associated with both current and future audit fees. Additional analyses provide evidence consistent with increased effort combined with increased risk contributing to the current pricing effect, with increased business risk primarily driving the future pricing effect. We, therefore, provide evidence that aggressive income-increasing REM activities have a significant influence on auditor pricing behavior, consistent with the audit framework associating engagement risk with audit fees. JEL Classifications: G21; G34; M41. Data Availability: The data in this study are available from public sources indicated in the paper.

CEO discretion, political connection and real earnings management in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 909-929
Author(s):  
Armaya'u Alhaji Sani ◽  
Rohaida Abdul Latif ◽  
Redhwan Ahmed Al-Dhamari
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Political Connection ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Financial Scandals

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of CEO discretion on the real earnings management and to explore whether the discretion of the CEO to ensure accurate and reliable financial reports is influenced by the political connection of board members. Design/methodology/approach Using the generalized method of movement to control the potential endogeneity on the sample of listed companies in Nigeria, the study conducted several checks using Driscoll–Kraay panel data regression with standard error to robust the main findings. Findings The paper provides evidence that CEO Discretion reduces the tendency of real earnings management and improve the reporting quality. However, the CEO’s discretion to provide reliable financial reports and to reduce the likely earnings manipulation is overturn by the presence of politically connected directors. Originality/value Existing studies on CEO attributes and earnings management in Nigeria fail to explain why CEOs were involved in corporate financial scandals. This paper suggests that the presence of politically connected directors is what override and upturn the CEO discretion to dwell into real earnings manipulations. Prior studies measured political connection using a dummy variable (Chaney et al., 2011; Osazuwa et al., 2016; Tee, 2018), this paper measured political connection using the proportion of politically connected directors. This is on the idea that the presence of more politically connected directors may give them the power to override the CEOs decision.

The Effect of Real Earnings Management on Auditor Scrutiny of Management's Other Financial Reporting Decisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. Commerford ◽  
Richard C. Hatfield ◽  
Richard W. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Reporting Decisions ◽  
Regulatory Scrutiny ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Subjective Estimates ◽  
Inference Theory

ABSTRACT Recent research reveals that accruals-based earnings management (AEM) is decreasing while real earnings management (REM) is increasing, suggesting the correlation is due to regulatory scrutiny. However, based on Correspondent Inference Theory, we predict and find that when management uses REM, auditors are more restrictive of management's subjective estimates, making it more difficult for management to use income-increasing AEM. Our experiment manipulates the presence versus absence of REM, and whether the audit difference potentially impacts the client's ability to meet an earnings target. Using a serial mediation model, we find that when auditors observe REM, they perceive these operating decisions as aggressive, leading them to perceive management as aggressive, ultimately causing greater proposed adjustments on an unrelated audit difference. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that when auditors observe REM, their altered perceptions about management can cascade, affecting how they respond to management estimates in unrelated financial statement accounts.

scholarly journals PENGARUH GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufenti Oktafia
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Discretionary Accrual ◽  
Good Corporate Governance

Earning managements is a management action in the process of preparing financial statements to influence the level of earnings that is displayed. Earnings management is one factor that can reduce the credibility of financial statements. Add to bias earnings management in the financial statements and can interfere with the use of a trusted financial reports profit figures as a result of these engineering profit numbers without engineering. Corporate governance is a concept proposed to improve business performance through supervision or monitoring management performance and ensuring accountability of management to the stakeholders with a framework based on rules. The concept of corporate governance as proposed for the achievement of corporate management more transparent to all users of financial statements. If this concept is applied properly it is expected that economic growth will continue to rise in line with the transparency of corporate management a better and will benefit many parties. Detection possibility of earnings management in the financial statements, examined through the use of estimates of total accruals. Total accruals consist of nondiscretionary accrual and discretionary accruals. Earnings management occurs because of opposition from various interested parties on the financial statement information, which interested parties on financial statements information that is internal and external parties. Conflicts of interest that occurs is minimized by a mechanism that is capable of aligning the interests of external and internal parties. Agency theory suggests that earnings management issues can be eliminated with the supervision of their own through good corporate governance.<br /><br />Keywords: corporate governance, discretionary accrual<br /><br />

scholarly journals THE APPLICATION OF FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Pobrić
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Fair Value Measurement ◽  
Value Measurement ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Infor Mation

This study investigates the application of fair value ac- counting in companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study was conducted on a sample of 190 companies. The application of fair value accounting causes a lot of controversy related to the relevance and reliability of fair value information. It is believed that the extent to which fair value measurement is used reflects attitudes of financial statement preparers about the usefulness of this model at its best. The findings of this study sug- gest that most companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not have tendency to apply fair value accounting. It is found that half of the companies in the sample do not use fair value accounting at all. Almost half of the com- panies that use fair value accounting use it just because they own assets that require fair value measurement. Fair value accounting is much more used in financial and larger companies than in non-financial and smaller companies. Companies mostly use fair value accounting for the measurement of investment property. However, they use it for the measurement of intangible assets at a minimum. The findings also suggest that the application of fair value accounting increases the uncertainty in fi- nancial statements. The quality of fair value disclosures is very low. Numerous companies do not disclose infor- mation on fair value hierarchy and valuation techniques that were used for fair value measurement. Companies that disclose this information mostly use indirectly ob- servable inputs (Level 2) for fair value measurement and these create a lot of room for earnings management.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Public Equity Ownership On Earnings Management Through The Manipulation Of Operational Activities

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1847
Author(s):  
Yura Kim
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Public Equity ◽  
Reported Earnings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Market Pressure

This paper examines whether public equity firms and private equity firms with public debt exhibit different degrees of real earnings management, defined as the manipulation of operational activities in order to influence reported earnings. Public equity firms face intense capital market scrutiny that their private equity counterparts do not. Therefore, this studys comparison of the two types of firms provides insight on the impact of capital market pressure on real earnings management behaviors. My results show that public equity firms are more likely than private equity firms to opportunistically alter normal operations to improve earnings by pushing sales through discounts and promotions, and by lowering costs of sales through overproduction. I find no difference in abnormal discretionary expenses between public equity and private equity firms. Although private equity firms with public debt do not face the same capital market pressure that public equity firms face, they are not immune from incentives to engage in real earnings management. Specifically, I find that private equity firms with public debt engage in real earnings management as their debt moves closer to default. Moreover, private equity firms with public debt that do engage in real earnings management appear to emphasize the zero earnings benchmark, consistent with prior research, suggesting that this benchmark is of primary importance to creditors.

scholarly journals Reputasi perusahaan keluarga: Accrual dan real earnings management

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
William Sebastian Tanusaputra ◽  
Rizky Eriandani
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
The Family ◽  
Company Reputation ◽  
Negative Effect

This study examined the effect of earnings management on reputation in family firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (ISE). The data were collected from audited financial reports of companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2017-2019. The data were slected by using a purposive sampling towards 264 companies. The data of company reputation comes from the corporate image reward website, and they were analyzed using logistic regression. The results showed there is no effect of accrual earnings management (AEM) on the family firms’ reputation. On the contrary, real earnings management (REM) has a significant negative effect on family firms. This result implies that earnings manipulation by adjusting the company’s operations will result in a bad reputation.

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