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Classification shifting: do managers’ real actions matter?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
McVay (2006) presents evidence that managers inflate core earnings by shifting operating expenses to special items. In this paper, we improve her model to estimate core earnings by controlling for a firm’s fundamental ...
Are auditors unable to detect classification shifting or merely not willing to report it? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
Prior research suggests that Big-4 auditors fail to curb classification shifting in the countries with weak legal institutions. However, it is not known whether the auditors are unable to detect the use of this earnings ...