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Role of Discretionary Current Accruals on Earning Management- A Case Study: Publicly Traded Companies at Tehran Stock Exchange

American Journal of Business and Management

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Title Role of Discretionary Current Accruals on Earning Management- A Case Study: Publicly Traded Companies at Tehran Stock Exchange
 
Creator Kordlouie, Hamidreza; International Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Jadidol Eslami, Davood; Accounting Department, Shahid Shamsipour Faculty, Iran
Mahmoudzadeh, Elmira; Accounting Department, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
 
Subject Management
initial public offering, earnings management, discretionary current accruals, operation cash flow, free cash flow
Stock Exchange, Management
 
Description The aim of this paper is testing earning management of companies providing the initial stock and the relation between discretionary current accruals and Operation cash flow, Free Cash Flow by using the financial information of companies in the Tehran exchange stock in fundamental metals industry and Cement, Lime and Plaster in a period of four years. We used Jonse adjusted model to examine earnings management and discretionary current accruals. We find that the environmental condition of each industry can have an influence on the content of managers’ usage of discretionary current accruals in order to manage earning. It also was determined that discretionary current accruals has significant relation with Operation cash flow and free Cash Flow, and the results show that we can consider free cash flow as an incentive earnings management.
 
Publisher World Scholars
 
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Date 2012-09-01
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://wscholars.com/index.php/ajbm/article/view/19
10.11634/216796061504118
 
Source American Journal of Business and Management; Vol 1, No 3 (2012); 124-132
 
Language en
 
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