scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Family Control on the Relationship between Audit Committee Financial Expertise and Earnings Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Abu Siam ◽  
Mohammed Idris ◽  
Saleh Al- Okdeh
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Family Control ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
The Family ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Regulatory Bodies

The current study offers empirical evidence on the way the family ownership moderates the association that exists between the financial experience of the audit committee and earnings management based on a sample of 44 manufacturing firms that are registered with the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2012 to 2016. From the results of the study, there is a significant negative association between the financial experience of the audit committee and earnings management. In addition, the study shows a positive interaction of the financial experience of the audit committee and the family ownership on earnings management. This indicates that an increase in the percentage of audit committee members having financial expertise, in order to restrict earnings management, is less likely to be influential in the case of family controlled firms. These results have implications for policy makers and regulatory bodies in Jordan since they highlight the need to improve the good corporate governance practices and attempt to constrain the incidence of earnings management in Jordanian firms.

scholarly journals The Impact of Audit Committee Characteristics on Earnings Management: A Canadian Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Lynda Ioualalen ◽  
Hanen Khemakhem ◽  
Richard Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Toronto Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of three Audit Committee (AC) characteristics, financial expertise, diversity and activism on aggressive earnings management. We hypothesized that these AC characteristics are negatively related to aggressive earnings management. To test or hypothesis, we conducted an empirical test with a sample of 10 Canadian corporations listed on the Toronto stock exchange: 5 companies that were accused of aggressive earnings management and 5 other corporations used as a control group. We analyzed the 5-year period prior to the accusation (1999-2003). We measured earnings management by the level of discretionary accruals (using the modified Jones model (1995). Our results show that activism and the financial expertise of AC members are negatively related to aggressive earnings management; however, we did not find a significant relationship between diversity and aggressive earnings management. These results contribute to help governance oversight organizations identify AC characteristics that have the most influence on the detection of aggressive earnings management, which could help agencies develop and enforce methods to detect and reduce aggressive earnings management practices.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN KELUARGA DAN KARAKTERISTIK KOMITE AUDIT TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadek Trisna Dwiyanti ◽  
Meyta Astriena
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Discretionary Accrual ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Accounting Expertise ◽  
Study Offer

This study aims to examine the effect of family ownership and audit committee characteristics on earnings management. The independent variables in this study are family ownership, audit committee size, accounting expertise of audit commitee, and audit committee’s number of meetings. Earnings management as a dependent variable is measured by discretionary accrual as a proxy of earnings management. This study also uses leverage and size as control variables. The sample of this study are 81 manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) with data for a period of 2 years (2015-2016). Using multiple linear regression, this study finds family ownership, audit committee size, accounting expertise of audit committee and audit committee’s number of meetings have a negaticve effect on earnings management. This study contributes to the existing literature by providing new result related to the influence of family ownership and audit committee characteristics on earnings management practice. In addition, this study offer some useful insights for policy maker in determining the most effective policy to reduce earnings management.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effect of Gender on Audit Committee Attributes and Earnings Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Usman Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Securities And Exchange Commission ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
The Impact

There exist a number of studies that have been conducted on the influence of audit committee attributes on earnings management but no attention has been given to the moderating effect of gender on audit committee attributes and earnings management. The main objective of this study was to examine the moderating effect of gender on the impact of audit committee attributes on earnings management of listed Agricultural companies in Nigeria for a period of six years (2012-2017). The study used ex-post facto and correlational research designs. The population of the study was the five (5) Agricultural companies in Nigeria listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as of 31st December 2017 and all the companies were used as a sample of the study. The study used a panel of multiple regression techniques for data analysis. It was found that gender has a strong and significant influence on the impact of audit committee attributes on earnings management of listed Agricultural companies in Nigeria. It was recommended that the audit committee of companies in Nigeria should comprise of at least 40% of women. Regulatory bodies concerned in Nigeria like Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigerian Stock Exchange and Financial Reporting Council should clearly state the composition of audit committee members and increase the number to ten where women should form 40% of the members of the committee and a woman with financial knowledge should be made the chairperson of the committee since women have shown a significant level of commitment to their responsibilities and contribute in reducing earnings manipulation.

The impact of audit committee on real earnings management: Evidence from Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Masmoudi Mardessi ◽  
Yosra Makni Fourati
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to examine the effect of the characteristics of an audit committee on real earnings management in the Dutch context. Our sample is composed of 80 non-financial companies listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange during the period between 2010 and 2017. Four proxies are used to measure audit committee characteristics, namely, audit committee independence, financial expertise, gender diversity, and audit committee meetings. To test our hypotheses, we use a regression model to identify the influence of a set of audit committee characteristics on real earnings management after controlling for firm audit committee size, leverage, size, loss, growth and board size. Our analyses provide evidence that audit committee independence and gender diversity constrain real earnings management. Our findings also suggest that audit committee financial expertise reduces to some extent the likelihood of engaging in real earnings management. To the best of our knowledge, the Dutch context is not yet explored especially following the issue of the long-awaited new Dutch Corporate Governance Code in 2016 which has been updated for a long period in 2008. Therefore, corporate governance is a relevant topic in the Netherlands. This study contributes geographically to the Audit Committee and earnings management literature that examines another possible method, specifically, real earnings management.

scholarly journals The impact of external auditor size on the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and earnings management

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ibrahim Idris ◽  
Yousef Ibrahim Abu Siam ◽  
Ahmad Lutfi Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
External Auditor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to explore new evidence on the nature of the relationship between the effectiveness of audit committee and earnings management in one of the emerging economies, Jordan. In addition, it investigates how external auditor size might moderate this relationship. For this purpose, a panel data consisting of 64 industrial firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) is used, covering the period between 2009 and 2014. An index consisting of four characteristics is developed to measure the effectiveness of audit committee, namely audit committee independence, size, meetings and financial expertise. Results show that audit committee effectiveness has a significant and negative impact on earnings management. Moreover, a positive interaction effect of external auditor size and audit committee effectiveness on earnings management is found, which is supportive of the substitute relationship between the external auditor size and effective audit committee in reducing earnings management. Policy makers and professional accounting bodies in Jordan might benefit from these results, as they show that legislative reforms can motivate firms to adopt good governance practices to mitigate earnings management.

scholarly journals Effect of corporate governance on expropriation practices with family ownership as moderation variable

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Bella Novenna Rettob ◽  
Imam Subekti ◽  
Endang Mardiati
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Control Rights ◽  
Controlling Shareholders ◽  
The Family ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Cash Flow Rights

The practice of expropriation is one of the accounting frauds committed by controlling shareholders because of their control rights that exceed cash flow rights. This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of corporate governance on the practice of expropriation and the existence of family ownership as a moderating variable. This research was conducted at companies in all sectors of the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Based on the purposive sampling method, the sample of this study was 78 companies with 312 observations. The research data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that the practice of expropriation in Indonesia can be minimized by implementing adequate corporate governance. The results of this study also prove that companies whose shareholding structures are dominated by the family will maintain control in the company through their management so that they have an impact on limiting governance practices in reducing expropriation practices.

scholarly journals The Effect of Audit Committee Financial Expertise And Relative Status On Earnings Management: Case of Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Delfita Siagian, Sylvia Veronica Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Joint Effect ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
Relative Status

 The aim of this research is to examine the effect of audit committee financial expertise (measured by audit committee experience in accounting, supervision, and financial)and audit committee status (relative to management) on earnings management. Our samples consist of 384 observations in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the year 2012-2014. The result of this research shows that audit commite financial expertise has no significant effect on earnings management. However, we find evidence that audit committee financial expertise haspositive effect on income decreasing accruals. This finding indicates that audit committee may perceived that conservatism is one of the mechanism to restrict management opportunistic behavior. We do not find significant evidence of the joint effect of audit committee status and audit committeee expertise on earnings management.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN LABA PADA PERUSAHAAN DENGAN KELUARGA SEBAGAI PEMILIK ULTIMAT

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Eni Indriani ◽  
Yusli Mariadi ◽  
Robith Hudaya
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Management Behavior ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
The Family

The objective of this study is to determine the influence of family ownership on the earnings management with leverage and firm size as control variables. This study focused on manufacturing companies which has family as the ultimate owner of the company. The sample of this stuacturing companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange and published its annual report during 2008-2014 period. The findings of this research indicated that family ownership has influence on the behavior of earnings management in companies with family as ultimate owner, which means that the percentage of shares owned by the family affect the magnitude of earnings management conducted by the company. The results also show that leverage has no effect on the behavior of earnings management in companies with family as ultimate owner, meaning the financing ratio that comes from the ratio of debt to equity can not affect the magnitude of earnings management conducted by the company. Lastly, company Size was found to have influence on earnings management behavior, which means that the size of firm can affect the the magnitude of earnings management conducted by the company. Keywords: earnings management, family ownership, leverage, company size

scholarly journals PENGARUH EARNINGS MANAGEMENT TERHADAP FUTURE PROFITABILITY TERKAIT DENGAN OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE, FIRM SIZE DAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES

Media Ekonomi ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Ikhsan Yudha Asmara ◽  
Felizia Arni Rudiawarni
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Future ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to determine how the effect of earnings management on future profitability business entity engaged in the manufacturing sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, and how the effects of the ownership structure, company size, and the practice of corporate governance (proxied by the audit quality, independent board member and audit committee) regarding the impact of earnings management on the future profitability of manufacturing sector enterprises listed on the Stock Exchange. This study used a sample of manufacturing sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2008-2010. The samples used in this study were 262 observations. The sampling method used was probability sampling - judgment / purposive sampling. Independent variables used in this study are earnings management (proxied by the CFO, NDAC, and DAC), ownership structure (proxied by DFAM and INST), firmsize, and corporate governance practices (proxied by the AUDIT, BOD, and AUDCOM). The dependent variable in this study is the future profitability proxied by the variable "and CFOT earnt + 1 + 1. The results of this study were (1) earnings management proved to have a significant impact on the future profitability of manufacturing sector enterprises. The influence that appears different depending on the proxy used; (2) The ownership structure did not have an influence on the behavior of earnings management related to future profitability of manufacturing sector enterprises; (3) firmsize not affect earnings management behaviors related to future profitability of manufacturing sector enterprises; overall corporate governance practices are not effective in influencing the behavior of earnings management related to the future profitability of manufacturing sector enterprises. Keywords  :   future profitability, earnings management, ownership structure, corporate governance practice

scholarly journals The Role of Audit Committees in Limiting Earnings Management: An Empirical Study of Saudi Corporations

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Fahad Al Naim ◽  
Thamir Al Barrak
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Audit Committees ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
Jones Model ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to measure the impact that audit committees have on earnings management for companies listed on Tadawul Stock Exchange. The sample includes firms in the basic materials sector for the years 2017 and 2018. The modified Jones model is used to investigate the impact of audit committee characteristics (independence, financial expertise, size, number of meetings, and percentage of shares owned) on earnings management. The results show that the greater the audit committee’s independence, percentage of shares owned, and number of meetings held contribute to limited earnings management. However, no evidence is found to support that financial experience or audit committee size have an impact on earnings management.

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