Earnings smoothing information as signaling or garbling: a literature review
Earnings smoothing, which refers to the action of managers managing earnings to reduce fluctuations of reported earnings, is a special type of earnings management because while earnings smoothing may be used to distort shareholders and creditors’ view of corporate actual performance, it may also ser...
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Macrothink Institute
2018
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