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The Effect Of Ceo Gender On Real Earnings Management, Candice Luciano, Shan Wang
The Effect Of Ceo Gender On Real Earnings Management, Candice Luciano, Shan Wang
Honors Thesis
Real Earnings Management involves the deviation from normal business practices to manipulate financial statements. Previous research has shown how higher gender diversity in senior management has led to higher earnings quality, and how firms with female CFOs have less earnings management than male CFOs. This paper will build off previous research and further examine whether CEO gender affects real earnings management and if so, its effects on real earnings management. The main hypothesis of the paper is that the gender of the CEO will affect the extent of real earnings management of a firm; firms with male CEOs will see …
Identification And Entertainment Education In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar: Bridging Communication Studies And Literary Analysis, Bailey Quanbeck
Identification And Entertainment Education In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar: Bridging Communication Studies And Literary Analysis, Bailey Quanbeck
Honors Thesis
Sylvia Plath’s semiautobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, has continued to engage audiences since its initial publication in 1963. Combining the disciplines of communication studies and literary studies, I argue that this popularity is in part due to readers’ identification with the novel’s protagonist, Esther. The Bell Jar serves as a piece of entertainment education—media that relays prosocial messages to consumers—and encourages readers to lose their sense of self in exchange for Esther’s identity. By emphasizing the novel’s prosocial messages, I suggest that Plath utilizes readers’ vicarious involvement in the narrative to provide education about mental health and gender roles. My …