This paper investigates whether earnings management occurs in non-profit hospitals. Using manually collected financial data of the foundation hospitals in Taiwan over the period from 2006 to 2008, I find non-profit hospitals tend to manage earnings to a range just above zero by examining the distribution of reported income on a sample of 45 hospitals and 133 hospital-year observations. The stud...

The present study is intended to examine the effect of accounting conservatism on firms’ non-profitability in Tehran Stock Exchange in 48 unprofitable firms and 57 profitable firms over a period of seven years from 2001 to 2007. This study was conducted according to Givoly and Hayn model to measure accounting conservatism index in non-profitable and profitable) firms. Data analysis performed wi...

This study develops a theoretical model and presents empirical evidence on crosssectional variation in managers’ choice of AEM and REM. In particular, it studies how AEM and REM are jointly affected by firms’ growth prospects, managers’ market-based compensation incentives, and the cost of real earnings management. The model yields several testable hypotheses. First, when the firm’s growth pros...

During the past five years, the number of US. citizens who own foreign securities has increased by thirty percent. This trend has led to the need for a uniform accounting system that would increase the comparability and consistency of financial statements across countries in the world Today, over I 00 countries have adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (!FRS) as their primary acc...

Using data from 1990-2013, we show 1) the serial correlation of analyst forecast errors increases in the extent of international diversification, 2) PEAD based on analyst forecast errors increases in the extent of international diversification, and 3) the impact of international diversification on the serial correlation of analyst forecast errors and the associated drift is significantly reduce...

Recent economic and political science research suggests that the way public policy is set, and in particular the participation of those affected by it, impacts upon the outcome of the policy. Accounting standard setting has long offered such a possibility to participate via the due process approach followed by major standard setters. We review the literature on areas close to financial reportin...

We examine whether Basu’s (1997) differential timeliness metric and the related C-Score metric are effective in detecting predictable differences in conservatism surrounding corrections of overstated earnings. Cross-sectional and time-series analyses, employing 2132 firms making restatements during 1999–2005, suggest Basubased metrics capture variation in conservatism. Further, we find that inc...