the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

this paper introduces discretionary imprecise data in data envelopment analysis (dea) and discusses the efficiency evaluation of decision making units (dmus) with non-discretionary imprecise data. then, suggests a method for evaluation the efficiency of dmus with non-discretionary imprecise data. when some inputs and outputs are imprecise and non-discretionary, the dea model becomes non-linear ...

Background: According to the sustainable development theory, managers have a high incentive to observe ethical principles in business operations. However, some of the immoral behaviors of managers in earnings manipulation lead to ethical failures in companies. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between sustainable development performance and managers’ immoral...

We investigate whether investors price accruals quality, our proxy for the information risk associated with earnings. Measuring accruals quality (AQ) as the standard deviation of residuals from regressions relating current accruals to cash flows, we find that poorer AQ is associated with larger costs of debt and equity. This result is consistent across several alternative specifications of the ...

This study is a literature review aimed at exploring the application of discretionary accruals and motivation Regional Incentive Funds (DID) received by local governments. Depreciation fixed assets was chosen as profit management technique used governments because are largest component balance sheet involve operational activities There not many studies that discuss Discretionary Accrual linking...

During the year prior to management buyout (MBOs) announcements, some target firms exhibit abnormally high discretionary expenses in selling, general and administration, abnormally low discretionary accruals, and realize losses from asset sales. Higher discretionary expenses and losses from asset sales are associated with lower pre-MBO abnormal stock returns, especially for firms with higher in...

The purpose of this research is to determine the impact quality environmental disclosure, corporate governance, and assimetric information on discretionary accruals. In study, population mining companies that implement PROPER are listed Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2016 2020. Purposive sampling was used obtain data from 47 different companies. Multiple linear regression analysis performed a...