This paper analyzes the relationship between capital structure and earning management. For analyzing we use 119 non-financial companies that listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 2000 to 2008. The researchers will focus on comparing the Jones Model and the Modified Jones Model, which are the two most frequently used model in empirical analysis nowadays. Earnings management is a kind of managemen...

The purpose of this paper is to obtain empirical measures of performance in the management of critical patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) and to evaluate the factors associated with performance, in a two stage approach. In the first stage, this paper uses an extended version of Data Envelopment Analysis (non-discretionary and categorical variables, and weight constraints under cons...

This study analyzes the effect of managerial style on firm value by partitioning general and administrative (G&A) expenses in the REIT industry into a nondiscretionary “structural” component associated with the costs of asset and liability management and a discretionary or “style” component. The discretionary component is significantly related to at least one measure of stylespecifically, the p...

this paper analyzes the relationship between capital structure and earning management. for analyzing we use 119 non-financial companies that listed in tehran stock exchange from 2000 to 2008. the researchers will focus on comparing the jones model and the modified jones model, which are the two most frequently used model in empirical analysis nowadays. earnings management is a kind of managemen...

Title of Dissertation: An Alternative Measure to Detect Intentional Earnings Management through Discretionary Accruals Salma S. Ibrahim, 2005 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Oliver Kim, Accounting and Information Assurance Department This study proposes an alternative measure of discretionary accruals that can be used in testing for intentional earnings management. Prior research has shown ...

The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of oil price shocks on discretionary fiscal policies in selected OPEC countries during 1980-2015. In this regard, the heterogeneous dynamic reaction to structural shock was examined using Panel Structural Vector Autoregressive (PSVAR) technique. Based on the findings, the effect of oil price shocks on discretionary fiscal policy was positiv...