A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting
Preprint
- 1 January 1999
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper we review the academic evidence on earnings management and its implications for accounting standard setters and regulators. We structure our revieKeywords
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