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...

inancial Accounting Standard (FAS) No. 133 requires that all derivatives be marked to market and that changes in their market value be recognized in earnings in the current period. Derivatives may qualify for special hedge accounting treatment, however, provided they are used to hedge specific risks and an effective hedging relationship can be documented. Companies that meet these requirements ...

In order to obtain SEO (Secondary Equity Offering) qualification, china listed companies would do different levels of earnings management centering on accounting earnings indicators. While previous researches on earnings management are mainly focused on enterprise management authorities’ accruals manipulation. In fact, in order to avoid losses, the user of statements would pay more attention to...

This paper examines the effect of accounting restatements on a firm’s cost of equity capital. We show that, on average, accounting restatements lead to both decreases in expected future earnings and increases in the firm’s cost of equity capital. Depending on the model used, relative percentage increases in the cost of equity capital average between 7 and 19% in the month immediately following ...

This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and the quality of accounting information in an emerging market. It is hypothesized that the relation between managerial ownership and earnings’ explanatory power of returns is negative and different from that documented in developed markets due to a unique institutional setting, leading to relatively high agency conflicts and inform...

Past research has extensively addressed the influence of accounting information on stock prices. However, results of this branch of capital market based research have been inconclusive, partly due to methodological deficiencies. Focusing on differential groups of market participants, such as financial analysts forecasting earnings, might contribute to our understanding of the functioning of cap...

Behavioral Finance aims to explain empirical anomalies by introducing investor psychology as a determinant of asset pricing. This study provides strong evidence that anomalous stock price behavior following earnings announcements is due to a representativeness bias. It investigates current and past earnings surprises and subsequent market reaction for listed US companies over the period 1983-19...