Fair Value Accounting, Earnings Management, and the Case of Bargain Purchase Gain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven B. Lilien ◽  
Bharat Sarrukai Sarath ◽  
Yan Yan
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Accounting Earnings ◽  
Accounting Earnings Management

Fair value accounting, earnings management, and the case of bargain purchase gain

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-253
Author(s):  
Steven Lilien ◽  
Bharat Sarath ◽  
Yan Yan
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Accounting Earnings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Accounting Earnings Management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between bargain purchase gains (BPGs) booked by the acquirer and smoothing of acquirers’ earning performance across time. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a sample of 122 bargain purchase acquisitions in non-financial industries from 2009 to 2012 and a pair-match control group of 122 goodwill acquisitions. Findings The authors find that BPGs, and in particular, the Level-3 fair value estimates of intangible assets acquired, have consistently been used to smooth earnings but that such smoothing activities are not associated with long-term market returns. Originality/value This study is the first one to investigate bargain purchase acquisitions in a broad range of non-financial industries and suggests that managers are using the valuation of intangibles to avoid unfavorable earnings even though these valuations are not credible to investors.

Earnings management in non-public companies: the case of for-profit hospice organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kelly Noe ◽  
Dana A. Forgione ◽  
Pamela C. Smith ◽  
Hanni Liu
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Accounting Earnings ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Political Cost ◽  
Accounting Earnings Management ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Cost Factors

We examine earnings management in non-publicly listed companies, with a focus on for-profit (FP) hospice organizations, and extend the accounting earnings management literature to the hospice industry. FP hospice organizations file Medicare cost reports that include complete financial statements not otherwise publicly available. Managers of FP hospice organizations have incentives to manage earnings to increase performancebased bonuses, meet or beat bond covenant requirements, or avoid public scrutiny. We find total accruals are significantly positively associated with profitability, debt, and size factors. However, discretionary accruals are significantly negatively associated with debt and size, but not profitability. Thus, monitoring and political cost factors appear to effectively mitigate earnings management in this industry sector.

scholarly journals Fair Value Accounting and Earnings Management Using LLP and Realized Gains and Losses: Study in Banking Industry Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Ice Maria Ulfa ◽  
Bambang Subroto ◽  
Zaki Baridwan
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Loan Loss ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: Fair Value Accounting and Earnings Management Using LLP and Realized Gains and Losses: Study in Banking Industry Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange. This study examines whether earnings management can be limited by the implementation of fair value accounting in banking industry. The main contribution of this study is  providing provide empirical evidence about the impact of fair value accounting on earnings management in Indonesia. Earnings management is proxied by loan loss provision (LLP), the realized of gains and losses, and the trade-off between realized gains and losses and LLP following Bratten et al (2013). The study provides empirical evidence that earnings management is still performed by banks, by using LLP, realized gains and losses and also occurs trade-off between LLP and realized gains and losses as means to perform earnings management in accordance with the needs of management. If banks are exposed to fair value accounting, managers will have more flexibility in reporting banks’ financial performance to present a desired earning, by  providing them with additional earning managements tools. These findings can be informative for policymakers, banking practitioners, and academics.  Keywords: earnings management, fair value accounting, LLP, realized gains and losses, trade-off LLP and realized gains and losses.Abstrak: Akuntansi Nilai Wajar dan Manajemen Laba menggunakan CKPN dan Realized Gains and Losses: Studi pada Industri Perbankan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Studi ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah manajemen laba dapat dibatasi oleh penerapan akuntansi nilai wajar dalam industri perbankan. Kontribusi dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memberikan bukti empiris tentang dampak penerapan akuntansi nilai wajar pada manajemen laba di Indonesia. Manajemen laba diproksikan oleh cadangan kerugian penurunan nilai (CKPN), realized of gains and losses, dan trade-off antara realized of gains and losses dan CKPN mengikuti model penelitian Bratten et al (2013). Studi ini memberikan bukti empiris bahwa manajemen laba masih dilakukan oleh bank menggunakan CKPN, realized of gains and losses dan juga terjadi trade-off antara CKPN dan realized of gains and losses sebagai sarana manajemen laba sesuai dengan kebutuhan manajemen. Konsekuensi dari paparan bank terhadap akuntansi nilai wajar dapat meningkatkan fleksibilitas manajer dalam melaporkan penghasilan yang diinginkan dengan memberikan mereka alat manajemen laba. Temuan-temuan tersebut dapat bersifat informatif bagi pembuat kebijakan, anggota industri perbankan, dan akademisi. Kata kunci: manajemen laba, akuntansi nilai wajar, CKPN, realized gains and losses, trade-off CKPN dan realized gains and losses.

Analysts’ reactions to firms’ real activities management

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-612
Author(s):  
Joonho Lee ◽  
Sung Gon Chung
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Accounting Earnings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stock Recommendations ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Accounting Earnings Management ◽  
Operating Activities

Purpose Firms’ real activities management (RAM) can have a more detrimental effect on firms’ future performance than accrual earnings management. This paper aims to examine whether analysts, who play an important role as information intermediaries, understand the negative effect of RAM on firms’ future performance and respond to it accordingly. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigate whether analysts lower their earnings forecasts and stock recommendations of the firms with RAM. The authors measure RAM by examining firms’ abnormal decreases in discretionary expenses, abnormal increases in production and abnormal decreases in cash flow from operations following prior literature. Findings The authors find that after controlling for earnings surprises and other important firm characteristics, analysts lower their forecasts of future annual earnings and stock recommendations of the firms that show signs of RAM. Research limitations/implications First, as in other RAM studies, the results in this study are subject to measurement errors inherent in the estimation of RAM (i.e. abnormal production costs, abnormal CFO and abnormal discretionary expenditures). Second, we include only firm-year observations that barely make positive income in our samples following the previous study. This sample selection criterion helps increase the power of the test by examining the “suspect firms group,” which are more likely to engage in earnings management. However, one can challenge that our findings on the association between RAM and analysts’ reactions could be only case-specific and cannot be generalized. Practical implications This study contributes to the literature on earnings management and especially on RAM. Specifically, none of the previous studies clearly examines whether analysts understand the negative impact of RAM on firms’ future performance and respond accordingly, although there are studies showing the negative association between RAM and firms’ future operating performance and studies showing the negative association between analysts following and RAM. Thus, filling the gap, this study provides a specific reason for the negative association between the analyst following and real earnings management presented in previous studies. Social implications The findings will be of interest to regulators, who are concerned about the potential negative consequences in which tighter accounting standards can result. For example, Ewert and Wagenhofer (2005) theoretically demonstrate that tighter accounting standards can prompt more RAM instead of accounting earnings management. The study provides important evidence supporting that such suboptimal operating activities are closely watched by analysts and are potentially penalized by the market. If the market is able to detect RAM and allocate fewer resources to the firms that engage in it, then the concerns associated with the substitution effect between accrual-based earnings management and RAM can be diminished. Originality/value Prior research suggests that tighter accounting regulations (e.g. the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) prompt more RAM than accounting earnings management. The study provides evidence supporting that such suboptimal operating activities are closely watched by analysts and are potentially penalized by the market.

scholarly journals THE APPLICATION OF FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Pobrić
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Fair Value Measurement ◽  
Value Measurement ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Infor Mation

This study investigates the application of fair value ac- counting in companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study was conducted on a sample of 190 companies. The application of fair value accounting causes a lot of controversy related to the relevance and reliability of fair value information. It is believed that the extent to which fair value measurement is used reflects attitudes of financial statement preparers about the usefulness of this model at its best. The findings of this study sug- gest that most companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not have tendency to apply fair value accounting. It is found that half of the companies in the sample do not use fair value accounting at all. Almost half of the com- panies that use fair value accounting use it just because they own assets that require fair value measurement. Fair value accounting is much more used in financial and larger companies than in non-financial and smaller companies. Companies mostly use fair value accounting for the measurement of investment property. However, they use it for the measurement of intangible assets at a minimum. The findings also suggest that the application of fair value accounting increases the uncertainty in fi- nancial statements. The quality of fair value disclosures is very low. Numerous companies do not disclose infor- mation on fair value hierarchy and valuation techniques that were used for fair value measurement. Companies that disclose this information mostly use indirectly ob- servable inputs (Level 2) for fair value measurement and these create a lot of room for earnings management.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Fair Value Accounting Dan Dewan Komisaris Terhadap Earning Management Yang Dimoderasi Oleh Peran Syariah

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 2280-2298
Author(s):  
Restu Hanin Annisa ◽  
Salma Taqwa
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Level Of Significance

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of fair value accounting and board of commissioners on earnings management. The renewal of this study where the research also aims to determine the role of sharia in moderating the influence of fair value accounting and the board of commissioners on earnings management. Researchers tested banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015-2018 with a total sample of 152 samples using a purposive sampling method. The results showed that fair value accounting and the board of commissioners had no effect on earnings management, where the probability value of both was greater than the level of significance (0.005). In addition, the results of the study stated that the role of sharia can reduce the effect of fair value on earnings management with a significance level of 10% (0.10). However, the role of sharia cannot actually reduce the influence of the board of commissioners on earnings management with a probability level greater than 0.005. Recommendations for further research are expected to be able to trace real earnings management because in this study only using accrual earnings management, then it is expected that the next researcher broadens the sample used and adds other variables that are considered to influence earnings management.

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF THE TERMS CREATIVE ACCOUNTING, EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING THROUGH BIBLIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Roman Hlawiczka ◽  
Roman Blazek ◽  
Gabriel Santoro ◽  
Gianluca Zanellato
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Revenue Management ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Accounting Earnings ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
Creative Accounting ◽  
Keywords And Phrases ◽  
World Class ◽  
Accounting Earnings Management ◽  
Mind Maps

Research background: The article focuses on the issues of creative accounting, earnings management, and fraudulent accounting, which are global phenomena. These concepts are well known globally, as they are dealt with by many world-renowned authors. In this study, we applied bibliometric analysis to these concepts to reveal their interconnectedness. The research was conducted on a sample of more than 19,000 articles. Purpose of the article: The main goal of the study is to use the VosViewer design and visualisation program to capture and record the most common terms associated with the terms, ‘creative accounting’, ‘revenue management’, and ‘fraudulent accounting’, and to show a biometric network of the most commonly used terms. Methods: To capture and illustrate important words associated with the above terms, the VosViewer program was used, which drew mind maps that represented the words and expressions that were closest to the topic. Scientific articles from the Web of Science database, which contains many world-class articles related to the topic, were used as input data. Findings & Value added: The results of the study provided an interesting insight into the keywords associated with the issues of creative accounting, revenue management, and fraudulent accounting. The results show that the keywords and phrases are related, as several of them are repeated in each of the terms mentioned. This means that, although these terms are different in nature, they are nevertheless connected by many words and phrases. However, it remains necessary to observe that each of the given terms appears on a different colour of fraud (white, grey, or black fraud).

scholarly journals PENGARUH AKUNTANSI NILAI WAJAR TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA: PERAN MODERASI STATUS PERUSAHAAN DALAM INDEKS SAHAM SYARIAH INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maisya Pratiwi ◽  
Dodik Siswantoro
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stock Index ◽  
Earning Management ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Positive Effect

ABSTRAK Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh nilai wajar (fair value) terhadap manajemen laba. Selain itu, penelitian juga bertujuan untuk mengetahui status perusahaan dalam Indeks Saham Syariah Indonesia (ISSI) dalam memoderasi pengaruh nilai wajar terhadap manajemen laba. Peneliti menguji perusahaan sektor non keuangan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia sebanyak 192 perusahaan selama tahun 2012-2016. Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah model regresi random effect. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai wajar tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap manajemen laba. Namun ketika nilai wajar dibagi berdasarkan hierarkinya, hasil penelitian menyatakan bahwa hanya nilai wajar 2 dan 3 memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap manajemen laba. Selain itu, hasil penelitian menyatakan bahwa perusahaan yang terdaftar dalam Indeks Saham Syariah Indonesia dapat mengurangi pengaruh nilai wajar terhadap manajemen laba, terutama pengaruh nilai wajar hierarki 2 dan 3 terhadap manajemen laba dibandingkan dengan nilai wajar hierarki 1. Kata kunci: Nilai Wajar; Manajemen Laba; Saham Syariah ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the effect of fair value accounting on earnings management. The study also aimed to determine the companies’ status in Indonesia Sharia Stock Index (ISSI) in moderating the effect of fair value on earnings management. We analysis 192 the non-financial sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from the years of 2012-2016. The result shows that fair value has no significant effect on earnings management. But, when fair value is divided based on fair value hierarchies, the result shows that only hierarchy 2 and 3 fair value has significant effect on earning management. In addition, the other result shows that the companies listed in the Indonesia Sharia Stock Index (ISSI) reduce the positive effect of fair value on earnings management, especially the effect of hierarchy 2 and 3 fair value on earnings management. Keywords: Fair Value; Earning Management; Sharia Stock

scholarly journals Fair value accounting and management opportunism on earnings management in banking sector: First evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tutino ◽  
Marco Pompili
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Fair Value Accounting ◽  
Valuation Process ◽  
Earning Quality ◽  
Short Termism

Accounting standard boards (IASB and FASB) have chosen fair value accounting (FVA) approach to help financial reporting users in the decision-making process. During recent years, an intense debate arose about the trade-off between relevance and reliability of accounting information in this approach. Even if fair value based information could be considered highly relevant and helpful from an investor’s perspective, many authors outline problems related to fair value hierarchy valuation of financial instruments. In particular, the discretionary use of unobservable inputs in financial instruments valuation process can support earnings management strategy underlying the risk for emerging agency problems, moral hazard behaviour and management short-termism. Stating that, after providing a literature review focused on management behaviour related to FVA, the main objective of the paper is identifying possible relationships between FVA valuations and earning quality observing a sample of US and European banks listed in the period 2011-2016 based on Šodan model (Sodan, 2015). Results show a negative and strong relationship between FVA and earning quality for US banks; results for European listed banks do not provide any strong evidence.

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