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Book Earnings Management and Firm Performance  The Case of Open Market Share Repurchases

Download or read book Earnings Management and Firm Performance The Case of Open Market Share Repurchases written by 聶聖文 and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Earnings Management and Firm Performance Following Open Market Repurchases

Download or read book Earnings Management and Firm Performance Following Open Market Repurchases written by Guojin Gong and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We provide evidence suggesting that both the post-repurchase long-term abnormal returns and the reported improvement in operating performance documented in prior studies are driven, at least partly, by pre-repurchase downward earnings management, rather than genuine growth in profitability. The average firm reports significantly negative abnormal accruals prior to open-market repurchases. The extent of the downward earnings management increases with the percentage of the company that managers repurchase and CEO ownership. The pre-repurchase abnormal accruals are also significantly negatively associated with both future operating performance and future stock performance, and the negative associations are driven almost exclusively by those firms that report the largest income-decreasing abnormal accruals prior to the repurchases. The study suggests that one reason firms experience post-repurchase abnormal returns is that the post-repurchase realized earnings growth exceeds expectations formed on the basis of the pre-repurchase deflated earnings numbers.

Book Open Market Share Repurchases and Earnings Management

Download or read book Open Market Share Repurchases and Earnings Management written by Arturo Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the market efficiency in processing manipulated accounting statements, and provide an explanation for the long-run performance anomaly associated with open market share repurchases. We find strong evidence that repurchasing firms understate their earnings report around repurchases announcements. Furthermore, we find that the market does not identify the earnings manipulation when the repurchase is announced, and that discretionary accruals can explain a significant part of long-term positive returns following repurchases. This study also suggests that analysts are misled by the use of discretionary accruals. Analysts are more pessimistic for companies reporting low discretionary accruals. Further investigation indicates that discretionary accruals are related to the economic benefits at stake to the managers. Our analysis indicates that managers with higher ownership in the firm are more likely to manage earnings down. Altogether the evidence is consistent with the managerial opportunism hypothesis.

Book Real Earnings Management Around Open Market Share Repurchases

Download or read book Real Earnings Management Around Open Market Share Repurchases written by Jing Ma and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Real Earnings Management Around Open Market Share Repurchases" by Jing, Ma, 馬靜, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This thesis investigates real earnings management behaviors in the context of open market share repurchase. I use three proxies developed by Roychowdhury (2006) to measure real earnings management behaviors, including abnormal cash flow from operations (DCFO), abnormal production costs (DPROD) and abnormal discretionary costs (DDISX). In comparison to existing literature that documents the impact of accrual earnings management on post-repurchase performance, this thesis endeavors in investigate thoroughly both methods of earnings management. I find that repurchasing firms not only engage in accrual earnings management as is documented in Gong, Louis and Sun (2008) but also engage in real earnings management. Empirically, repurchasing firms have significant positive DCFO and negative DPROD in the year of announcements, both of which are earnings-reducing real activities. Repurchasing firms do not exhibit significant evidence of earnings-reducing DDISX in the year of announcements, but they experience earnings-reducing DDISX in all the three years prior to announcements. As predicted, the operating performance and stock performance of a repurchasing firm can be explained by pre-announcement earnings-reducing accrual manipulations and pre-announcement earnings-decreasing real earnings management. Specifically, the pre-repurchase downward DPROD makes the most important explanatory variable in both repurchasing and actual repurchasing samples whether controlling for DACC or not. The pre-repurchase upward DCFO is most relevant in determining the post-repurchase stock performances. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5295510 Subjects: Stock repurchasing Earnings management

Book Asymmetric Information  Financial Reporting  and Open Market Share Repurchases

Download or read book Asymmetric Information Financial Reporting and Open Market Share Repurchases written by Matthew T. Billett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We explore the link between open market share repurchases (OMRs) and asymmetric information - based on financial reporting quality - and find opaque firms experience positive abnormal returns twice the magnitude of transparent firms. These significant differences remain after controlling for governance, earnings management, and firm characteristics. We document significantly positive long-run post-announcement returns for opaque firms, but not for transparent firms. We find takeover activity and premiums rise with repurchase activity by opaque firms and may explain some of the wealth effects. Our results suggest that asymmetric information plays an important role in the wealth effects around OMRs.

Book Operating Performance Following Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements

Download or read book Operating Performance Following Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements written by Erik Lie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I document that operating performance improves following 4,729 announcements of open market share repurchase programs from 1981 through 2000. Moreover, the capital market responds favorably to earnings announcements after the program announcements. Further analysis reveals that both the operating performance improvement and the positive earnings announcement returns are limited to those firms that actually repurchase shares during the same fiscal quarter. Last, I report that a subsample of firms that initiate the repurchases in quarters following the program announcements experience improvements after the initiation quarter, suggesting that actual repurchases, and not announcements per se, portend future performance improvements.

Book Corporate Payout Policy

Download or read book Corporate Payout Policy written by Harry DeAngelo and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Payout Policy synthesizes the academic research on payout policy and explains "how much, when, and how". That is (i) the overall value of payouts over the life of the enterprise, (ii) the time profile of a firm's payouts across periods, and (iii) the form of those payouts. The authors conclude that today's theory does a good job of explaining the general features of corporate payout policies, but some important gaps remain. So while our emphasis is to clarify "what we know" about payout policy, the authors also identify a number of interesting unresolved questions for future research. Corporate Payout Policy discusses potential influences on corporate payout policy including managerial use of payouts to signal future earnings to outside investors, individuals' behavioral biases that lead to sentiment-based demands for distributions, the desire of large block stockholders to maintain corporate control, and personal tax incentives to defer payouts. The authors highlight four important "carry-away" points: the literature's focus on whether repurchases will (or should) drive out dividends is misplaced because it implicitly assumes that a single payout vehicle is optimal; extant empirical evidence is strongly incompatible with the notion that the primary purpose of dividends is to signal managers' views of future earnings to outside investors; over-confidence on the part of managers is potentially a first-order determinant of payout policy because it induces them to over-retain resources to invest in dubious projects and so behavioral biases may, in fact, turn out to be more important than agency costs in explaining why investors pressure firms to accelerate payouts; the influence of controlling stockholders on payout policy --- particularly in non-U.S. firms, where controlling stockholders are common --- is a promising area for future research. Corporate Payout Policy is required reading for both researchers and practitioners interested in understanding this central topic in corporate finance and governance.

Book Earnings Management

Download or read book Earnings Management written by Joshua Ronen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? 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? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?

Book Payout Policy

Download or read book Payout Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dividend policy continues to be among the premier unsolved puzzles in finance. A number of theories have been advanced to explain dividend policy. This e-book briefly reviews the principal theories of payout policy and dividend policy and summarizes the empirical evidence on these theories. Empirical evidence is equivocal and the search for new explanation for dividends continues.

Book Management Control Systems

Download or read book Management Control Systems written by Kenneth A. Merchant and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unique range of case studies, real life examples and comprehensive coverage of the latest management control-related tools and techniques, Management Control Systems is the ideal guide to this complex and multidimensional subject for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and practising professionals.

Book Encyclopedia of Finance

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Finance written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It also has an international approach to ensure its maximum appeal. The Editors' wish is that the readers will find the encyclopedia to be an invaluable resource.

Book Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting  New Series  Vol   14

Download or read book Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting New Series Vol 14 written by Cheng F. Lee and published by Center for PBBEFR & Airiti Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.

Book Producing Prosperity

Download or read book Producing Prosperity written by Gary P. Pisano and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.

Book Clontarf  Or the Field of the Green Banner

Download or read book Clontarf Or the Field of the Green Banner written by John Augustus Shea and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Book Behavioral Corporate Finance

Download or read book Behavioral Corporate Finance written by Hersh Shefrin and published by College Ie Overruns. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Corporate Finance

Download or read book Handbook of Corporate Finance written by David J. Denis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly surveying the realm of corporate finance, this adroitly-crafted Handbook offers a wealth of conceptual analysis and comprehensively outlines recent scholarly research and developments within the field. It not only delves into the theoretical dimensions of corporate finance, but also explores its practical implications, thereby bridging the gap between these distinct strands.