盈余管理的时间和误区(PPT 19页)

What is Earnings Management?
  The process of establishingstakeholder expectations and achieving the result through legitimate and/or illegitimate methods

Why Are We Talking About It?
Illegitimate methods CLOUD financial reporting transparency
Contrary to unbiased reporting
Result is low quality earnings even if the target is reached.
U.S. capital markets placed a premium on predictability
SEC action in 1998

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