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In today's dynamic landscape of accounting, corporate finance, and business management, earnings management has assumed paramount importance. Transparent and reliable accounting information is crucial for accurate corporate performance forecasting and financial decision-making. This book uniquely discusses practical earnings management methods within the accounting and taxation realms. It is supported by extensive international evidence linking informativeness of financial reports to companies' financial decisions.
Delving into the earnings management process, this book provides profound insights into how profits can be influenced through accounting choices and real business transactions. Real-life case studies will undoubtedly facilitate the understanding of accounting and taxation methods. Additionally, it unravels key elements of corporate finance puzzles related to the transparency of financial reports, including the macroeconomic environment, profit thresholds, cash management, audit quality, financing decisions, and financial health. With broad empirical evidence from various European countries, it multidimensionally explores the important link between the quality of information in financial statements and trade-offs behind financial decisions.
The book serves as a valuable reference for international researchers in corporate finance, accounting, and corporate governance. It is also a powerful tool for business practitioners, including owners, lenders, auditors, regulatory and professional bodies, business partners, or other market participants. For those seeking the latest insights on earnings management, those producing or assessing accounting information, and those using financial reports in their research or business practice, this book is a must-read.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
List of contents
1. Dissecting earnings management strategies: Why, how and when? 2. Long-term earnings management based on fixed assets 3. Creative accounting or earnings management via current assets? 4. Provisions - a small accounting lie in earnings management 5. Taxation: an important tool of earnings management 6. Real earnings management possibilities for managers 7. Impression management and transparent reporting 8. Earnings informativeness during macroeconomic turbulence 9. Profit thresholds and earnings management 10. Cash holdings and transparency of financial reports 11. Does auditing expertise enhance financial reporting quality? 12. Discovering the relationship between financing and earnings management 13. Company financial distress and earnings manipulation
About the author
Joanna Lizi¿ska is associate professor in the Department of Corporate Finance, Poznä University of Economics and Business, Poznä, Poland.
Marzena Remlein is tenured professor in the Department of Accounting and Financial Audit, Poznä University of Economics and Business, Poznä, Poland.
Leszek Czapiewski is associate professor in the Department of Corporate Finance, Poznä University of Economics and Business, Poznä, Poland.
