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Earnings Management and Earnings Quality


Kin Lo


University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business

September 2007


Abstract:     
Viewing the detection of earnings management from the perspective of a crime scene investigator sheds new light on prior research on earnings management and its close relative, earnings quality. Ball and Shivakumar (2007) and Teoh et al. (1998) are used to illustrate the application of seven components of a crime scene investigation to earnings management research.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 17

Keywords: market efficiency, earnings management, earnings quality, accounting fraud

JEL Classification: G12, G14, K22, M41, M43

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Date posted: August 15, 2007 ; Last revised: July 7, 2008

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Lo, Kin, Earnings Management and Earnings Quality (September 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1007066 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1007066

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University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business ( email )
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