Earnings management : evidence from intial public offerings of equity carve-outs.
In the presence of more public information on equity carve-outs as compared to pre-listed ordinary firms, this paper hypothesizes that carve-outs manage their earnings upward prior to initial public offerings in the face of management incentives. Using the Jones (1991) model, we find support for our...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/8270 |