A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies

The 2nd International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 12th - 14th November 2010 at Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia.

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Main Authors: Siti Nor Junita, Mohd Radzi, Suraiya, Ibrahim, Md. Aminul Islam
Other Authors: sitijunita@unimap.edu.my
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2011
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spelling my.unimap-115182011-04-09T02:33:32Z A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies Siti Nor Junita, Mohd Radzi Suraiya, Ibrahim Md. Aminul Islam sitijunita@unimap.edu.my suraiya@unimap.edu.my amin_shanto@yahoo.com International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) Earnings management Earnings quality MESDAQ Company The 2nd International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 12th - 14th November 2010 at Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia. This study attempted to find out whether the size of audit firm, internal audit establishment and former senior auditor as company director have any significant effect on earning management. All data were extracted from the annual reports. The sample firms used in this study were all the companies listed on Bursa Malaysia under Malaysia Exchange for Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (MESDAQ) technological sector in 2006. There were 128 MESDAQ Companies listed in 2006. However due to unavailability of reports, 113 were used for analysis. Earning Management can be viewed from financial reporting perspective. From a financial reporting perspective, managers may use earning management to meet analysts’ earning forecast, thereby avoiding the strong negative share price reaction that quickly follow a failure to meet investor expectations. Too much earning management, however, reduces the earning quality and the ability investor to interpret current net income as well, particularly if the earning management is buried in core earning or otherwise not fully disclosed. The reported net income is useful to investor in evaluating future firm performance but excessive earning management may reduce this usefulness. Thus this study is very important because from the research findings shows that the size of audit firm, internal audit establishment and former senior auditor as company director have no significant effect on earning management. An understanding of the earning management is also important to accountants because it enables an improved understanding of the usefulness of the net income, especially for reporting to investor. It also may assist them to avoid some of the serious legal and reputation consequences that arise when firms become financially distress where such distress is often preceded by serious abuse of earnings management. 2011-04-09T02:33:32Z 2011-04-09T02:33:32Z 2010-11-12 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11518 en Proceedings of the International Conference on the Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Engineering 2010 (ICoHSE 2010) Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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topic International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010)
Earnings management
Earnings quality
MESDAQ Company
spellingShingle International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010)
Earnings management
Earnings quality
MESDAQ Company
Siti Nor Junita, Mohd Radzi
Suraiya, Ibrahim
Md. Aminul Islam
A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
description The 2nd International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 12th - 14th November 2010 at Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia.
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Suraiya, Ibrahim
Md. Aminul Islam
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Suraiya, Ibrahim
Md. Aminul Islam
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title A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
title_short A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
title_full A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
title_fullStr A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
title_full_unstemmed A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
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publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
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