Earnings management is found to be driven by different managerial incentives. Previous studies have identified that executive compensation contracts create incentives for earnings management. The agency theory and the positive accounting theory provide explanations for contract-driven earnings management. This study links the agency theory and the positive accounting theory and reviews the earl...

Background: One of the main factors for shaping social responsibility and profit management is the auditorchr('39')s ethical intention. Ethical behavior can lead to different behaviors by managers about earnings management.The present study aims to investigate and analyze the relationship between ethical athmosphere, social responsibility and earnings management. Method: The research method u...

Available online 13 November 2014 This study examines the relationship between family firms and earnings management by considering the influence of board independence. Based on a sample of 379 listed high-technology firms over 7 years in Taiwan, we find that family firms are positively related to earnings management. Further, we find two interaction effects: (1) the proportion of independent di...

When the Revelation Principle (RP) holds, managing earnings confers no advantage over revelation. We construct an explanation for earnings management that is based on limitations on owners’ ability to make commitments (a violation of the RP’s assumptions). Traditionally, earnings management is seen as sneaky managers pulling the wool over the eyes of gullible owners by manipulating accruals; ou...

The study is an effort to fiind out the impact of earnings management on dividend payout policy for two coutries that is Pakistan and China. A set of listed Companies in both of the countries have been investigated to analyze the relationship for the year 2003 to 2007 in Pakistan and 2001 to 2007 in China. Dividend policy has been measured by dividend payout. Whereas earnings management has bee...