Earnings Management: Emerging Insights in Theory, Practice, and Research

Joshua Ronen, Varda Yaari

Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 6, 2008 - Business & Economics - 582 pages

Earnings Management: Theory and Research is a scholarly study of earnings management. The book is aimed for scholars in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address the following research questions: Why earnings are so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What is earnings management? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? Can truthful reporting be considered earnings management? What are the motivations for smoothing and other reporting strategies? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?

Contents

• 3 3 CEO Turnover 93 3 3 1 Departure 93 3 3 2 CEO Departure and Earnings Management 96 3 3 3 The Incoming CEO 99 3 4 Insider Trading 101 ...: 4
• The Importance of Earnings: 5
• The SarbanesOxley Act 43 The Motivation for the SarbanesOxley Act 44 Research on the SarbanesOxley Act 45 The Plan of Part2 53 3 The Manage...: 58
• The Demand for Theory 287 The Plan of Part 3 289 Capital Markets 289 Governance 290 Product and Factor Markets 291 The LegalPoliticalRegula...: 293
• 7 5 1 The Game 336 7 5 2 Issues 339 8 Maximization and Minimization: 341
• of Rule 10b5 363 8 4 4 The Effect of Regulation on Earnings Management 365 8 5 Summary 366 Part 4 369: 377
• 10 The Accruals Methodology: 389
• Bibliography 463: 462
• Index: 577

About the author

Dr. Joshua Ronen, a leader in economic analysis, has more than 30 years of experience in economics, finance, accounting and research. He is Research Professor of Accounting at Stern School of Business, New York University, which he joned as a faculty member in 1973. From 1970 to 1974, he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Business School. He received his BA in Accounting and Economics from the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. (1969) in Business Administration from Stanford University. He is also a licensed CPA in Israel and has practiced public accounting for seven years.

Dr. Ronen has served or is serving on numerous journals, including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The British Accounting Review, The Journal of International Financial Analysis. He also served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.

Dr. Varda Yaari is an Associate Professor at Morgan State University, Maryland, USA. 2002-2003: Senior Lecturer: Ben-Gurion University. 1998 – 2001: Lecturer: Ben-Gurion University. Coordinator of Accounting Area.

Dr. Yaari received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1989 from the Stern School of Business, NYU and his Master of Arts (Economics), 1979 from Tel-Aviv University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Earnings Management: Emerging Insights in Theory, Practice, and Research; Volume 3 of Springer Series in Accounting Scholarship
• Authors: Joshua Ronen, Varda Yaari
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2008
• ISBN: 0387257713, 9780387257716
• Length: 582 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Accounting / General; Business & Economics / Accounting / Managerial; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Economics / Microeconomics; Business & Economics / Finance / General; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Management; Business & Economics / Strategic Planning