Earnings Management and the Independence or Interdependence of Accounting Choices: the Decision to Adopt Mandated Accounting Changes

This research examines whether firms managed earnings in the year they adopted SFAS 109, Accounting for Income Taxes (or its predecessor SFAS 96), by combining the choice to adopt SFAS 109 with other accounting choices in an interdependent rather than independent manner. Prior literature generally a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, Nancy Brown
Other Authors: Boynton, Charles E.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of North Texas 1997
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Online Access:https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277774/