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Classification shifting: Impact of firm life cycle
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)
Purpose - This paper examines whether firms in the decline stage of life cycle manipulate core or operating income through misclassification of operating expenses as income-decreasing special items. Design/methodology/approach ...
Earnings management strategies during financial distress
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-11)
We examine whether financial distress and its severity have a role to play in managers’ decisions with respect to the choice of earnings management strategies. Our results suggests that firms in initial stages of distress ...
How does regulation sffect the relation between family control and reported cash flows? comparative evidence from India and the United States
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)
Manuscript Type: Empirical. Research Question/Issue: We conduct a two-country study to understand (i) how family and non-family firms engage in classification shifting to manage reported operating cash flows in each country; ...
Earnings management in India: managers' fixation on operating profits
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
We present evidence that the managers of Indian firms fixate on operating profits, and thus manage such earnings. Specifically, they shift operating expenses to income-decreasing special items in order to inflate operating ...