The private pension structure in the United States, once dominated by defined benefit (DB) plans, is currently divided between defined contribution (DC) and DB plans. Wealth accumulation in DC plans depends on the participant's contribution behavior and on financial market returns, while accumulation in DB plans is sensitive to a participant's labor market experience and to plan parameters. Thi...

We examine whether earnings management spreads from firm to firm via board connections. We find that contagion of accounting quality occurs via directors in interlocking boards with other firms. A firm with director links to firms that restated earnings tends to have poorer accounting quality and higher likelihood of restating its own financial reports. A firm with director links to firms that ...

This study examines the association between different institutional investors’ ownership and earnings management practice using a neural networks approach. It investigates this relationship for a sample of 121 US firms. We examine also the effect of institutional ownership on the level of accruals management of firms having different information environment (S&P 500 versus non S&P 500). Results...

This study investigates whether Australian targets manage their earnings during takeover bids. A sample of 65 firm-years that were subject to takeover offers during the period 1999-2003 is selected. Each treatment firm-year is matched by industry and size with a control firm-year not subject to a takeover bid. Three Discretionary Accruals models are used: the DeAngelo (1986) model, the Jones (1...

This study investigates how corporate governance characteristics affect earnings management of firms in Vietnam. In particular, we examine whether firm’s use of discretionary accruals is influenced by board size, state ownership and foreign ownership. Our empirical analysis is based on a relatively large sample of 570 non-financial Vietnamese listed firms from 2010 to 2014. We find that larger ...

Discretionary accruals remain decade’s long measures to detect earnings management in empirical accounting research. The correctness of the specifications and test power information content for models remains unexplored based on samples most emerging market firms. Yet, country’s-based researchers have increasingly used different Jones-based discretionary proxy management. paper aims evaluate fo...

This study examines the role of board independence and audit committee expertise in accounting on earnings management small listed firms Malaysia, which have been neglected corporate governance research. Due to their size, listing requirements imposed them by Bursa Malaysia are less stringent. Hence, these predicted a higher tendency manage compared large firms. All ACE Market during financial ...