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Earnings Management Strategy Of Pension Plan Changing Firms, Wei Chen Aug 2022

Earnings Management Strategy Of Pension Plan Changing Firms, Wei Chen

Accounting Dissertations

This study investigates the earnings management strategy of defined benefit pension plan changing firms. I provide the evidence that managers engage in cash conservation activities and real earnings management in response to the changes in funding status and pension income through the manipulation of pension assumptions before and after pension freezing. These results suggest that earnings management through pension assumptions affects the normal operations of the firm through real activities during the defined benefit plan pension freezing. I also provide evidence that pension termination firms exhibit a lower level of discretionary accruals after the termination, suggesting the downsizing of a …


The Influence Of Financial Distress, Cash Holdings, And Profitability Toward Earnings Management With Internal Control As A Moderating Variable: The Case Of Listed Companies In Asean Countries, Maya Putri, Eduard Ary Binsar Naibaho Jun 2022

The Influence Of Financial Distress, Cash Holdings, And Profitability Toward Earnings Management With Internal Control As A Moderating Variable: The Case Of Listed Companies In Asean Countries, Maya Putri, Eduard Ary Binsar Naibaho

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This study aims to define and analyze the relationship between financial distress, cash holding, and profitability and earnings management with internal control as a moderating variable in relation to six major countries in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam). Earnings management is measured by the Jones model of discretionary accruals. Secondary data sources are used, namely companies listed on the S&P Capital IQ, with 480 observations that fit the criteria. Purposive sampling techniques are employed, with a new sample of observational data from the consumer staples sectors in the six countries covering the period 2016-2020. ASEAN was …


The Relationship Between Perceived Fairness In Executive Compensation And Managerial Behavior, Kainan Xiong Jan 2022

The Relationship Between Perceived Fairness In Executive Compensation And Managerial Behavior, Kainan Xiong

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation examines the relationship between the perceived fairness in executive compensation and the level of earnings management on the one hand and the propensity for voluntary turnover on the other. Executive compensation has attracted significant academic attention for more than two decades. The ratcheting-up of executive pay raises questions about its determinants and whether the pay-setting process effectively promotes managerial behavior that aligns with the interests of shareholders. Alternatively, executives may simply extract rents at the expense of shareholders because of the informational advantage that they have and their influence over the board of directors, particularly the compensation committee …


Three Essays On The Impacts Of Tax Planning And Earnings Management On The Informativeness Of Taxable Income, Book Income, And Cash Flows From Operations, Yong Qiang Chen Jan 2022

Three Essays On The Impacts Of Tax Planning And Earnings Management On The Informativeness Of Taxable Income, Book Income, And Cash Flows From Operations, Yong Qiang Chen

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation comprises three independent but highly related essays that investigate the effects of tax planning and/or earnings management. The first essay investigates how high tax planning and/or aggressive earnings management affect the relative and incremental value-relevant information of taxable income, book income, and cash flows from operations (CFO). Regarding the effects of tax planning, first, I postulate and show that high tax planning reduces the relative and incremental information of taxable income to CFO. Second, high tax planning increases the relative and incremental information of CFO to the combined information set of taxable income and book income. Third, high …