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Detecting Earnings Management Practices in Banks: Evidence from Turkey

European Journal of Economic and Political Studies

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Title Detecting Earnings Management Practices in Banks: Evidence from Turkey
 
Creator Elif Ozturk Kilic
Goksel Acar
Ali Coskun
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.affiliation.name## Suleyman Sah University
Bursa Orhangazi University
Fatih University
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.email.name## eozturk@ssu.edu.tr
goksel.acar@bou.edu.tr
alicoskun@fatih.edu.tr
 
Description The aim of this study is to test earnings management practices of banks operating in Turkey. It is expected that financial reports should reflect financial position and performance reliably and relevantly. Earnings management, which is a common name used to describe manipulation of financial information, has a negative impact on quality of financial reporting in terms of reliability. This study examines whether banks manipulate their financial information through earnings management techniques. Bank Specific Model is used to test earnings management in this study. Data is gathered from twenty-five banks with five years period from 2009 to 2013 to test earnings management for four periods, 2010 - 2013. Findings show that there may be manipulations of financial information in different years.
 
Subject Earnings management; Banks; Accruals; Specific industry models.
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.jel.name## M40.
 
Source European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.year.name## 2014
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.volume.name## 7
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.issue.name## 2
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.pages.name## 21-36
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.pdfurl.name## http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/download/120/120
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Fatih University
 
Contributor
 
Date 2016-02-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Identifier http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/view/120
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.onlineissn.name## 1307-6035
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.printissn.name## 1307-6000
 
Language eng
 
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