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Fair Value Measurements And Earnings Management: Evidence From The Banking Industry, Xiaolu Xu
Fair Value Measurements And Earnings Management: Evidence From The Banking Industry, Xiaolu Xu
Accounting - Dissertations
I examine the association between fair value measurements and bank earnings management using financial data for a sample of U.S. bank holding companies from 2009 to 2012. I follow the methodology in Beatty et al. (2002) and find that banks reporting higher recurring basis fair values, especially level 2 fair values and banks reporting increased fair values are more likely to report small earnings increases both in the current year and one-year ahead after controlling for discretionary loan loss provisions, discretionary security gains and losses, and other bank-specific characteristics. By decomposing the fair values into different types, I find that …
Income Classification Shifting And Financial Analysts’ Forecasts, Shanshan Pan
Income Classification Shifting And Financial Analysts’ Forecasts, Shanshan Pan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Income classification shifting involves opportunistically misclassifying core expenses into nonrecurring items in order to boost core earnings. Recent studies have documented large sample evidence of its existence (e.g. McVay 2006; Fan et al.,2010; Barua et al.,2010). Managers engage in income classification shifting because they believe the market in general and financial analysts in particular focus on core earnings. If financial analysts are experts in forecasting permanent earnings, they should be expected to identify reported core earnings that have been inflated through classification shifting and revise their future earnings forecast accordingly. Consistent with my prediction, I find that given the same …