Earnings Management and Measurement Error

Artikel

In this paper I consider the impact of a noisy indicator regarding a manager’s manipulative behavior on optimal effort incentives and the extent of earnings management. The analysis in this paper extends a twotask, single performance measure LEN model by including a binary random variable. I show that contracting on the noisy indicator variable is not always useful. More specifically, the principal uses the indicator variable to prevent earnings management only under conditions where manipulative behavior is not excessive. Thus, under conditions of excessive earnings management, accounting adjustments that yield a more congruent overall performance measure can be more effective than an appraisal of the existence of earnings management to mitigate the earnings management problem.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: BuR - Business Research ; ISSN: 1866-8658 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2008 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 149-163 ; Göttingen: VHB - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, German Academic Association of Business Research

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management
• Subject: accounting ; Gewinnverwendung ; Anreizvertrag ; Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie ; Performance-Messung ; Operations Research

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hofmann, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): VHB - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, German Academic Association of Business Research
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2008

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1007/BF03343531
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103668
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-20-16509
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:21 AM CEST