Market Response toward Accrual Earnings Management, Real Transactions, and Strategic Revenue Recognition - Earnings Management1

This study investigates how the capital market response to a variety of earnings management tools i.e., accrual-based earnings management, real transaction activities, and strategic revenue recognition. We measure the market response to the information content of earnings by the earnings response co...

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Main Authors: Windy Puspita Dewi, Antonius Herusetya
Format: Article
Language:Indonesian
Published: Petra Christian University 2015-01-01
Series:Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan
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Online Access:http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/aku/article/view/19517
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Summary:This study investigates how the capital market response to a variety of earnings management tools i.e., accrual-based earnings management, real transaction activities, and strategic revenue recognition. We measure the market response to the information content of earnings by the earnings response coefficient (ERC). By using pooled-OLS regression from 748 firm-years data of public listed companies on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2004-2009, we find some evidence of a negative association between earnings response coefficients and information content of earnings that contained earnings management. Our study find that real transactions earnings management in operating activities has negative association with earnings response coefficient, but we do not find any evidence from the other earnings management tools. The findings of this study imply that the market participants are able to capture a certain kind of earnings management behaviour that may reduce the earnings response coefficient.
ISSN:1411-0288
1411-0288