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Earnings Management Strategy Of Pension Plan Changing Firms, Wei Chen
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 Timing Of Insider Trading And Management Forecast Credibility, Xiaozhe Gu
The Timing Of Insider Trading And Management Forecast Credibility, Xiaozhe Gu
Accounting Dissertations
In this paper, I study how past insider trading patterns affect management forecast credibility. I first hypothesize and find that, due to litigation concerns, executives are unlikely to use a “pump-and-dump” strategy to maximize trading profits. Instead, they issue more accurate and conservative management earnings forecasts before insider sales. I then document that insider sales after forecasts have signaling content. Specifically, firms where a higher fraction of insider sales occurs shortly after the forecast enjoy higher forecast credibility in the future. This effect is more pronounced when firms are difficult to value and less pronounced when firms show traces of …