Evidence of Earnings Management from the Provision for Bad Debts

作者: Maureen McNichols , G. Peter Wilson

DOI: 10.2307/2491176

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摘要: Our paper examines whether managers manipulate earnings.'We begin by modeling how a specific accounting number, the provision for bad debts, would be reported in the absence of …

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