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Management Motivation and Earnings Management Methods

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the management motivations on earnings management methods based on thousands of samples between 2006 and 2011. The empirical results indicate that Real Earnings Management is used to manipulate the earnings in order to turn a profit, avoid loss, refinance, and change executives. The companies with higher executive compensations intend to use REM. However, making big profits by using Real Earnings Management activities is not popular because the capital market in China is not perfect enough.

Qianqian Zhang | Sun Ying | Zhonghai Yang

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