Monitoring opportunistic behaviour, pressure behaviour and financial risk ratio between ASEAN countries / Muhammad Asyraff Mohd Yusoff

• Main Author: Mohd Yusoff, Muhammad Asyraff
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2018
• Subjects: Risk management. Risk in industry. Operational risk
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28636/1/PPb_MUHAMMAD%20ASYRAFF%20MOHD%20YUSOFF%20BM%20J%2018_5.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28636/

This study is to examine the mean difference of earnings management. opportunistic behaviour, pressure behaviour and financial risk ratio between Asean countries namely Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and also to find the relationship between opportunistic behaviour, pressure behaviour and financial risk ratio on earnings management. Based on the data gathered amounting 194 listed firms from Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia), Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for each country from the year Of 2014 to 2017. The study proposed that there will be a significant mean difference in earnings management, opportunistic behaviour, pressure behaviour and financial risk ratio between these three countries. Besides that, it is assumed that there will he significant relationship between opportunistic behaviour, pressure behaviour and financial risk ratio on earnings management. The result of this study enables the readers or regulators to have better explanation on the relationship between variables thus alter the rules and regulation a better and soundness of financial reporting in which will increase reliabilities.