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CEO Incentives and Earnings Management

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-05-007

28 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2008

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Daniel Bergstresser

Brandeis International Business School

Thomas Philippon

New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: December 2004

Abstract

We provide evidence that the use of discretionary accruals to manipulate reportedearnings is more pronounced at firms where the CEO s potential total compensation is more closely tied to the value of stock and option holdings. In addition, during years of high accruals, CEOs exercise unusually large amounts of options and CEOs and other insiders sell large quantities of shares.

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Bergstresser, Daniel and Philippon, Thomas, CEO Incentives and Earnings Management (December 2004). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-05-007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1294143

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