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4. Financial Crisis as a Major Cause of Earnings Management: Theoretical Background and Literature Review

verfasst von : Bruno Maria Franceschetti

Erschienen in: Financial Crises and Earnings Management Behavior

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter approaches the question of the relationship between financial crisis and earnings management. It presents a review of studies that identified financial crisis as a major cause of earnings management. Previous research on the impact of financial crisis on managers’ earnings management behavior has yielded ambiguous results, depicting different scenarios depending on the choice of firm context/type, and on the start date of the financial crisis. The results show that there is a lack of consensus on the direction and magnitude of earnings management in times of recession. Results of the performed literature review will be operationalized into a hypothesis presented in the following Chap. 5. Therefore, this chapter is essentially propaedeutic to Chap. 5.

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The following keywords were searched in the titles, abstracts, and keywords: Fraud or “earnings manipulation” or “earnings management” or “earnings quality” or “data manipulation” or “financial fraud” or “earnings behavior” or “creative accounting” or “aggressive accounting” or “income smoothing” or “GAAP violation” linked with logical AND to recession or crisis or downturn or depression. The Scopus search was limited to the following subject areas: business, management, and accounting; economics, econometrics, and finance; decision sciences; and social sciences. The Ebsco Host search was further limited by full-text availability.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Financial Crisis as a Major Cause of Earnings Management: Theoretical Background and Literature Review
verfasst von
Bruno Maria Franceschetti
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54121-1_4