The Effect of Corporate Governance on Decrease Earning Management

Autor: Yahya Hassas Ycganeh, Narges Yazdanian
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی, Vol 5, Iss 17, Pp 151-171 (2007)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2821-0166
2538-2519
Popis: This research seeks to find an answer to this quest ion ''how do some corporate governance practices affect earning management in Iran?" The investigated corporate governance principals in this research are: the percentage of institutional investors' ownership, the existence of non-executive directors i n the board of directors, the absence (non-existence) of executive directors as the chief or ...... of board of directors, the existence or internal auditors. In this research Jones modified model has been used to determine earning management which is measured by discretionary accruals. For this purpose, the data of l77 firms during the years 1382 to 1384 have been used. The results of this research show that when the percentage of institutional investors' ownership in firms is more than 45%,the earning management decreases. Moreover the results show that there is no meaningful correlation between the existence of non-executive directors in the board of directors, the absence (non-existence) of executive directors as the chief or ...... of board of d i rectors, the existence of internal auditors and earning management.
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