Accounting Informs Investors and Earnings Management is Rife: Two Questionable Beliefs
12 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2013 Last revised: 15 May 2013
Date Written: May 15, 2013
Abstract
This short essay is based on a presentation at the panel discussion on “The Most Incorrect Beliefs in Accounting” at the American Accounting Association Meetings in 2012. It addresses the inordinate amount of attention given in the literature to accounting’s role in providing new information for equity investors, and to allegedly rampant “earnings management.”
Keywords: earnings management, value relevance, earnings informativeness
JEL Classification: M41
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Ball, Ray, Accounting Informs Investors and Earnings Management is Rife: Two Questionable Beliefs (May 15, 2013). Accounting Horizons, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2211288 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2211288
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