Timely loss recognition and termination of unprofitable projects

Ideally, firms should discontinue projects that become unprofitable. Managers, however, continue to operate such projects because of their limited employment horizons and empire-building motivations (Jensen, 1986; Ball, 2001). Prior studies suggest that timely loss recognition in accounting earnings...

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Main Authors: Anup Srivastava, Shyam Sunder, Senyo Tse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309115000246