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Book Corporate Governance and Earnings Management in Malaysian Government Linked Companies

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Earnings Management in Malaysian Government Linked Companies written by Muslim Har Sani Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the major shareholder, in 2004, the Malaysian Government embarked on the transformation initiative of the Government Linked Companies (GLCs). One of the main initiatives was to enhance board effectiveness through its Green Book. Soon after, the progress performance review revealed that the GLCs reported improved earnings. Such drastic performance turnarounds triggered the question as to whether earnings quality is at stake. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the tightening of corporate governance mechanisms on earnings management (EM) activities of the GLCs. The earnings data for two periods (pre- and post-transformation) were collected and tested to determine whether the GLCs experienced any improvement of board monitoring role in curbing EM activities in the post-transformation period. The main findings show that there is an increase of EM activities in the post-transformation policy. Furthermore, the study also reveals that none of the corporate governance mechanisms has much impact on curbing activities, except for board meetings and leadership structure in the post-transformation period. The board meetings and separation of chairman and chief executive officers in the companies were shown to only have a negative impact on EM activities in the post-transformation period. Although the study has shown a positive preliminary impact from tightening the corporate governance of the GLCs, weak earnings quality might undermine the efforts to sustain such a transformation. The paper contributes to the limited body of literature concerning the impact of corporate governance on earnings management by examining such impact using Government Linked Companies in Malaysia after introducing the transformation programme.

Book Corporate Govenance Performance and Earnings Management in Listed Government Linked Companies GLCs

Download or read book Corporate Govenance Performance and Earnings Management in Listed Government Linked Companies GLCs written by Fekri Ali Mohammed Shawtari and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of Corporate Governance and Real Earnings Management on Financial Statement Fraud in Malaysia

Download or read book The Impact of Corporate Governance and Real Earnings Management on Financial Statement Fraud in Malaysia written by Noorul Azwin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and financial statement fraud in Malaysia. This study also investigates the likelihood of Malaysian financial statement fraud firms' involvement in real earnings management. Although a number of firms submitted fraudulent financial statement each year to deceive financial statement users in decision making, limited studies have been undertaken on financial statement fraud in emerging countries. This study will fill the research gap by examining the relationships between financial statement fraud, corporate governance and real earnings management. In the end, this study will make a significant contribution for regulators to make policies and analysts to identify early warning signals with regard to fraudulent financial reporting practices in Malaysia. Univariate and multiple regression models will be employed to test the hypothesized relation between firms convicted in financial statement fraud and corporate governance practices. This study will incorporate ethnic attribute on the board and audit committee. This study will also investigate changes towards corporate governance practice after fraud detection. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no research has investigated pre and post corporate governance practices in related to financial statement fraud at the same time. Abnormal real earnings management will be used as the proxy for earnings management. Prior literatures have focused on accounting accruals to proxy earnings management. Nevertheless, past literatures documented that it is more favourable for managers to manipulate monetary values that involve with the timing of actual business transactions. It is also posited that real earnings management occurs before manipulation of accruals. As a result, the decision to use real earnings management in identifying early warning signal of financial statement fraud is appropriate. Potential findings of this study are the effective corporate governance mechanisms able to reduce fraudulent financial reporting. Furthermore, earnings quality is expected to decline towards the conviction of financial statement fraud.

Book The Practice of Corporate Governance and Real Earnings Management on Financial Statement Fraud in Malaysia

Download or read book The Practice of Corporate Governance and Real Earnings Management on Financial Statement Fraud in Malaysia written by Noorul Azwin Md Nasir and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Issues of Substance Over Form on the Relevance of Malaysia Code of Corporate Governance in Reducing Earnings Management

Download or read book Issues of Substance Over Form on the Relevance of Malaysia Code of Corporate Governance in Reducing Earnings Management written by Wan Masliza Wan Mohammad and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of Government linked Investment Companies in Malaysia on the Performance and Earnings management of Their Portfolio Companies

Download or read book The Impact of Government linked Investment Companies in Malaysia on the Performance and Earnings management of Their Portfolio Companies written by Amiruddin Bin-Muhamed and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Corporate Governance and Earnings Management

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Earnings Management written by Ken Y. Chen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates whether corporate governance characteristics, mandated by the Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles (CGBPP) for companies listed in Taiwan, are associated with earnings management. In particular, we examine whether the independence, financial expertise, and voluntary formation of independent directorship (supervisorship) are associated with the absolute value of discretionary accruals. Our findings suggest that the independence of supervisors, financial expertise of independent directors, and voluntary formation of independent directorship (supervisorship) are associated with lower likelihood of earnings management. These findings are stronger after the CGBPP was enacted, suggesting that the implementation of CGBPP has lowered the likelihood of earnings management.

Book Governance Structure Ownership Structure and Earnings Predictability

Download or read book Governance Structure Ownership Structure and Earnings Predictability written by Redhwan Al-dhamari and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is distinct from prior research focusing mainly on the relationship of corporate governance mechanisms to earnings management or earnings informativeness because it examines the associations between governance structure, ownership structure, and earnings predictability. Using a sample of 330 firms for the period of 2008 through 2009, the findings reveal that the predictive ability of earnings is high when firms have small boards, an independent chairperson, and high shareholding by institutions. However, in contradiction to our expectation is the significant but negative effect of board independence on earnings predictability. The results also demonstrate that investors do not perceive independent audit committees, more active audit committees, competent audit committees, and a high shareholding of management as good indicators of earnings numbers with a high predictive value.

Book An Investigation on the Audit Committee s Effectiveness

Download or read book An Investigation on the Audit Committee s Effectiveness written by Nurul Nazlia Jamil and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial reporting quality has been under scrutiny especially after the collapse of major companies. The main objective of this study is to investigate the audit committee's effectiveness on the financial reporting quality among the Malaysian GLCs. In particular, the study examined the impact of audit committee characteristics (independence, size, frequency meeting and financial expertise) on earnings management in periods prior to and following the transformation program (2003-2009). As at 31 December 2010, there were 33 public-listed companies categorized as Government-Linked Companies (GLC Transformation Policy, 2010) and there were 20 firms that have complete data which resulted in the total number of firm-year observations to 120 for six years (year 2003-2009). Results show that the magnitude of earnings management as proxy of financial reporting quality is influenced by the audit committee independence. However, no evidence was found to support the effect of audit committee size, meetings and expertise on the magnitude of earnings management. Agency theory and resource dependence theory were applied to explain audit committee, as a monitoring mechanism as well as reducing agency costs via gaining competitive advantage in knowledge, skills, and expertise towards financial reporting quality. However, contrary to expectation, the theories were not fully supported hence there is a need for alternative theory that can explained the relationship further. This study is different from prior studies, in that it makes a significant contribution towards enhancing one's knowledge in the interacting role of audit committee's effectiveness and financial reporting quality subsequent to the transformation program in GLCs. The study is important as it provides additional knowledge about the impact of audit committee's effectiveness on reducing the earnings management, and assist practitioners, policymakers and regulators such as Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Securities Commission and government to determine ways to enhance audit committee's effectiveness and improve the financial reporting of GLCs, as well as improving the quality of the accounting profession.

Book Corporate Governance and Earnings Forecasts Accuracy

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Earnings Forecasts Accuracy written by Nurwati A. Ahmad-Zaluki and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper aims to extend the research on the Malaysian IPO management earnings forecasts by examining the impact of corporate governance mechanisms and earnings forecasts accuracy. It seeks to investigate whether effective corporate governance is a credible signal of improving the quality of financial information. A sample of 235 IPO companies that went public during the period 1999-2006 was used. Absolute forecast error was used to proxy for earnings forecast accuracy and to represent financial disclosure quality. Companies with a higher percentage of non-executive directors in the audit committees and larger audit committee size exhibit greater forecast accuracy. The accuracy of IPO earnings forecast is also positively influenced by the use of brand-name auditor. The results suggest that effective corporate governance is a credible signal of improving the quality of financial information. The role of audit committee as financial monitors as suggested by the agency theory supports this study. The results are consistent with the belief that effective corporate governance is associated with higher financial disclosure quality. The results also support the decisions made by Malaysian regulators such as the Securities Commission to enhance the quality of financial disclosure by revising the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance to encourage public companies to implement good governance practices such as audit committee independence.

Book Corporate Governance and Earnings Management

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Earnings Management written by Chi Keung Man and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: