As relações entre investidores e executivos são abordadas pela Teoria da Agência que, entre outras tratativas, afirma que a remuneração executiva é um instrumento que investidores dispõem para controlar as ações de executivos. No entanto, há a assimetria de informações e os executivos possuem maneiras de gerenciar informações contábeis de modo a atingir as metas estabelecidas pelas políticas de remuneração e aumentar a própria riqueza em detrimento do aumento da riqueza do acionista. Neste sentido, esta tese investigou se a informação contábil influencia nos determinantes da remuneração executiva de companhias europeias para o período de 2008 a 2017. Para isto, lançou mão de três artigos independentes que juntos constroem esta tese. O primeiro uma revisão de literatura em que se traçou um retrato temporal, geográfico e temático das publicações acerca do problema de agência. Os dois artigos seguintes são empíricos e abordaram duas vertentes contábeis de suma importância para a sustentação de uma companhia: o resultado e o caixa. O segundo artigo investigou se os pacotes de remuneração executiva sofrem influência da qualidade do resultado e o terceiro artigo investigou acerca da influência do fluxo de caixa operacional sobre a remuneração executiva. A pesquisa utilizou dados secundários, tal que o estudo bibliográfico foi elaborado a partir de um levantamento bibliométrico e os dois trabalhos empíricos foram construídos a partir de dados coletados da base Thomson Reuter/s Eikon©. A técnica estatística aplicada foi a regressão com dados em painel. O estudo bibliométrico indicou uma lacuna no conhecimento preenchida pelos dois artigos empíricos. O primeiro identificou que as companhias não determinam os pacotes de remuneração a partir da qualidade do resultado. O segundo identificou uma bonificação paga ao executivo em função da geração de caixa operacional. A contribuição da tese se dá no alerta aos investidores acerca da determinação das políticas de remuneração executiva a partir de indicadores de desempenho de curto prazo e nenhuma relação destas compensações com indicadores que indicam qualidade da informação contábil e sustentabilidade de resultados no longo prazo / The relationship between investors and executives are addressed by the Agency Theory which, among other subjects, says that the CEO Compensation is an instrument that investors have to control the actions of executives. However, there is the asymmetry of information and executives have ways to manage accounting information to achieve the goals established by the remuneration policies and increase their wealth at the expense of growing shareholder wealth. In this sense, this thesis investigated whether the accounting information can influence the determinants of CEO Compensation of European companies for the period 2008 to 2017. For this, they have resorted to three independent articles that together build this thesis. The first is a literature review in which we drew a picture temporal, geographic and thematic of publications about the problem of agency. The following two articles are empirical and addressed two statements of paramount importance to sustain a company: earnings and cash. The second article investigated whether CEO Compensation packages are influenced by the earnings quality and the third article investigated the influence of cash flow of operating on executive remuneration. The research used secondary data, such that the bibliographic study was prepared from a bibliometric survey and the two empirical studies were constructed from data collected from Thomson Reuters Eikon©, companies established in countries of the European Union, for the period 2008 to 2017. The statistical technique applied was the regression with panel data. The bibliometric study indicated a gap in knowledge filled by two empirical articles. The first identified that companies do not determine remuneration packages from the earnings quality. The second recognized a subsidy paid to the executive in function of the cash flow of operating. The contribution of this thesis is on the alert for investors concerning the determination of CEO Compensation policies from performance indicators of short-term and no relation of these compensations with signs that indicate the quality of accounting information and sustainability of results in the long term

I och med verkställandet av IFRS 3 och revideringen av IAS 36 gick de svenskamarknadsnoterade bolagen från att skriva av goodwill linjärt till att årligen testa posten förnedskrivningsbehov. Den direkta effekten blev större goodwillposter och lägre av- och nedskrivningskostnader. Studien ämnar undersöka huruvida det föreligger utrymme försubjektiva bedömningar när goodwill ska testas för nedskrivningsbehov. Studien ämnar även att undersöka om det föreligger incitament för en företagsledning att utnyttja bedömningen av goodwill för att manipulera bolagets resultat i enlighet med earnings management-teorin. Studien omfattar 138 observationer från 2017, vilka är svenska börsnoterade bolag noterade på OMX Stockholms listor Mid cap och Large cap. Den inhämtade datan kommer från databaser samt manuellt hämtad från samtliga bolags årsredovisningar. Med studiens syfte och deduktiva utgångspunkt har en kvantitativ ansats antagits och fyra hypoteser utvecklats. Den första hypotesen testar sambandet mellan marknadens förväntan på nedskrivning av goodwill och ett bolags faktiska nedskrivning av goodwill. Övriga hypoteser behandlar sambandet mellannedskrivning av goodwill och earnings management-faktorerna resultatbaserade bonusar, lånekontrakt och VD-byte. Med hjälp av linjära regressioner testas även om de sistnämnda variablerna påverkar nedskrivning av goodwill. Studien visar inte på några signifikanta resultat och samtliga nollhypoteser accepteras. Vi kan inte dra slutsatsen att det finns några samband mellan de testade earnings managementfaktorerna. Vi kan heller inte säga om det finns något samband mellan marknadens förväntan på nedskrivning av goodwill och ett bolags faktiska nedskrivning av goodwill. Trots att studien inte uppnår några signifikanta resultat hoppas vi att den kan bidra med en diskussion som kan ligga till grund för framtida och fortsatt forskning inom ämnet. / With the implementation of IFRS 3 and the readjusted version of IAS 36, all Swedish companies listed on OMX Stockholm went from goodwill write-off on a straight-line basis to testing the asset annually for impairment. The direct effect was greater goodwill assets and lower depreciation and impairment costs. This study aims to investigate whether there is scope for subjective assessments when goodwill is to be tested for impairment. The study also intends to investigate whether there is an incentive for a business management to utilize the assessment of goodwill to manipulate the company's results in accordance with the earnings management theory. The study contains 138 observations from 2017, which are all Swedish listed companies on OMX Stockholm on the lists Mid cap and Large Cap. The collected data comes from databases and manually retrieved from the company’s annual reports. A quantitative approach has been adopted and four hypotheses have been developed based on the aim of the study and the deductive starting point. The first hypothesis tests the correlation between the market’s expectation of goodwill impairment and a company's actual impairment of goodwill. The other hypotheses deal with the correlation between impairment of goodwill and earnings management factors such as performance-based bonuses, debt covenant and CEO changes. Linear regressions also test whether the latter variables affect decisions regarding goodwill impairment. The study do not show any significant results and all null hypotheses are accepted. We cannot conclude that there are any connections between the earnings management factors tested, neither can we say if there is any correlation between the market's expectation of goodwill impairment and a company's actual impairment. Although the study does not achieve any significant results, we hope that it can contribute with a discussion that can form the basis for future and continued research within the subject.

Bakgrund Sedan IFRS infördes 2005 skall goodwill inte lägre skivas av utan istället testas för nedskrivning minst en gång per år. Nedskrivningsprövningen har sedan dess kritiserats av flertalet forskare och ansetts vara ett ämne för earnings management (EM). Eftersom goodwill skall värderas till verkligt värde följer viss problematik, särskilt under lågkonjunkturer då det är svårt att förutspå hur långvarig den ekonomiska nedgången förväntas bli. Cykliska branscher, såsom bankbranschen, är känsliga för förändringar i konjunkturen och således borde sådana förändringar avspeglas i bankernas goodwillpost. Syfte Studien har två övergripande syften, dels att kartlägga nedskrivningar av goodwill i nordiska storbanker och dels att testa samband mellan dessa och olika konjunkturlägen, Big Bath Accounting och Income Smoothing. Målet med studien är att komplettera det redan befintliga forskningsområdet gällande EM vid nedskrivning av goodwill. Detta genom att ta konjunkturens påverkan i beaktning samt inkludering av nordiska storbanker.   Metod Då tidigare studier inom området har exkluderat bankbranschen, var det just av denna anledning som banker valdes ut för studien. För att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställning föll sig en kvantitativ metod mest lämplig. Insamlad data från årsredovisningar perioden mellan 2006–2017 sammanställdes i statistiska modeller och tester och därmed kunde studiens resultat erhållas. Resultat & Slutsats Studiens resultat visar att varken konjunktur, utövande av Big Bath Accounting eller Income Smoothing signifikant påverkar nedskrivning av goodwill i nordiska storbanker. Studien kan därmed inte påvisa förekomsten av någon av dessa två strategier för EM, vilket motsäger tidigare forskning. Gällande konjunkturens påverkan på nedskrivning av goodwill föreligger en negativ korrelation där nedskrivningar tenderar att vara som störst under en lågkonjunktur. Dock har inget tydligt mönster för när nedskrivningar har gjorts kunnat urskiljas. / Background Since IFRS was introduced in 2005, goodwill should no longer be amortized but instead be tested for impairment at least once a year. The impairment test has been criticized by most researchers and blamed to be a topic for earnings management (EM). Because goodwill is measured at fair value, certain problems follow. Especially during recession, when it is hard to predict how long the economic downturn is expected. The banking industry are particularly sensitive to changes in the business cycle. Therefore, should these changes should be reflected in their goodwill. Purpose This study has two main purposes, partly to identify impairments of goodwill in major Nordic banks and partly to test the statistical relationship between these and different economics conditions, Big Bath Accounting and Income Smoothing. The aim of the study is to supplement the existing research regarding earnings management and impairment of goodwill. This by taking different economic conditions in account and including Nordic major banks. Method Previous studies in the research area has excluded the banking industry, for this reason, banks were selected for our study. To answer the study's purpose and issue, a quantitative method fell most suitably. To be able to perform statistical models and tests to obtain a result, data was collected from each bank annual reports during 2006–2017. Results and conclusion The result of the study shows that neither the economic conditions, Big Bath Accounting or Income Smoothing has a significant impact on the impairment of goodwill in banks Nordic Large Cap. The study could not demonstrate the presence of any of these two strategies for earnings management, which contradicts previous research. Regarding the impact of economic conditions of goodwill impairment, there is a negative correlation where write-downs tend to be greater during a recession. Thus, no pattern for when write-downs of goodwill have been made.

ABSTRACT Title: Do women's risk aversion have any effect on earnings quality and audit fees? Level: Student thesis, final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration Author: Josephine Jonsson and Josefin Lund Supervisor: Jan Svanberg Date: 2019 – june Aim: Due to the positive qualities women are considered to add to the boardroom and the countries' quota requirements for the proportion of women on boards, it is of great importance to examine the possible effect of an increased number of women on boards. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between external audit fees and the proportion of women on the board. A second purpose is to investigate whether a higher/lower audit fees associated with women on the board is related to higher earnings quality. Method: The study adopts a hypothetical-deductive approach with a positivistic perspective. Quantitative secondary data has been obtained from the Thomson Reuters Eikon. A longitudinal study has been designed and the selection has finally been analyzed in multiple regression analysis using the statistics program IBM SPSS. Result & Conclusions: The study's literature review gave reason to expect a connection between the proportion of women on the board and the companies' earnings management and audit fees explained by women's risk aversion. The study measures the companies' earnings quality with earnings management in order to seek answers to whether the audit fee can be explained by the earnings quality. The result shows no correlation and the study can thus not explain the companies' audit fees with women's tendency to act risk averse. Contribution of the thesis: From a theoretical perspective, the study contributes to business research through an increased understanding of the view of the female leader, as this study seeks out explanations other than risk aversion to the connection between audit fees and the female leader. The study's practical contribution is about clarifying the effect of appointing more women on boards, and the study provides valuable information to the companies' stakeholders due to the quota requirements of women on boards in certain countries. Suggestions for future research: Since the results in the study do not fall in line with previous research, future research should take an open perspective on whether women should be assumed to be risk averse. There may be many other explanations for the effects of women on leading positions. These effects should be investigated. It is also interesting to investigate how the quota of women in leading positions affects the companies' profitability, if the woman is hired because of her gender and not her experience and competence. / SAMMANFATTNING Titel: Har kvinnors riskaversion någon effekt på redovisningskvalitet och revisionsarvode? Nivå: Examensarbete på Grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Josephine Jonsson och Josefin Lund Handledare: Jan Svanberg Datum: 2019 – juni Syfte: Med anledning av de positiva egenskaper kvinnor anses tillföra i styrelserummen samt ländernas kvoteringskrav på andel kvinnor i styrelser är det av stor vikt att undersöka den eventuella effekt som kommer av ett ökat antal kvinnor i styrelser. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan externt revisionsarvode och andel kvinnor i styrelsen. Ett andra syfte är att undersöka om ett eventuellt högre/lägre revisionsarvode associerat till kvinnor i styrelsen är relaterat till högre redovisningskvalitet. Metod: Studien antar en hypotetisk-deduktiv ansats och ett positivistiskt perspektiv. Kvantitativ sekundärdata har inhämtats från databasen Thomson Reuters Eikon. En longitudinell studie har designats och urvalet har slutligen genomgått analys i multipla regressionsanalyser med hjälp av statistikprogrammet IBM SPSS. Resultat och slutsats: Studiens litteraturundersökning gav anledning att förvänta sig ett samband mellan andel kvinnor i styrelsen och företagens resultatmanipulation och revisionsarvode förklarat med kvinnors riskaversion. Studien mäter företagens redovisningskvalitet med resultatmanipulation för att söka svar på om revisionsarvodet kan förklaras med företagens redovisningskvalitet. Resultatet visar inget samband och studien kan således inte förklara företagens revisionsarvoden med kvinnors tendens att agera riskavert. Examensarbetets bidrag: Ur ett teoretiskt perspektiv bidrar studien till den företagsekonomiska forskningen genom en ökad förståelse på synen på den kvinnliga ledaren, eftersom denna studie söker andra förklaringar än riskaversion till sambandet mellan revisionsarvodet och den kvinnliga ledaren. Studiens praktiska bidrag handlar om att tydliggöra effekten av att tillsätta fler kvinnor i styrelser och studien tillhandahåller värdefull information till företagens intressenter med anledning av kvoteringskrav på kvinnor i styrelser i vissa länder. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Då sambanden i studien inte faller i linje med tidigare forskning bör framtida forskning inta ett öppet perspektiv på huruvida kvinnan kan antas riskavert. Det kan finnas många andra förklaringar till effekterna som uppstår av kvinnor på ledande poster. Dessa effekter bör undersökas. Det vore även intressant att undersöka hur inkvotering av kvinnor i ledande positioner påverkar företagens lönsamhet, ifall kvinnan inkvoteras på grund av sin könstillhörighet och inte sin erfarenhet och kompetens.

Muito em função da dificuldade de se observar o dia-a-dia dos conselheiros nas empresas, acadêmicos e profissionais se questionam sobre a importância dessas estruturas de governança corporativa (GC) quando o assunto é propriedade dos números contábeis. Nesse sentido, esta tese, além de discutir extensivamente e traçar um panorama geral acerca da configuração desses conselhos no Brasil ao longo dos últimos cinco anos, estuda de que forma essas e outras estruturas de GC se associam com medidas de qualidade da informação contábil das firmas brasileiras. Diferentemente do que se encontra na literatura existente, a pesquisa em tela buscou compreender o ambiente dos conselhos de administração (CAs) e Fiscais (CFs) de modo mais amplo, avaliando de forma agregada 35 características estruturais, de remuneração e de composição desses órgãos, considerando suas inter-relações e implicações quando da associação destas com variáveis que medem as propriedades informacionais contidas no lucro. Para tanto, analisou-se, em média, cerca de 325 empresas por ano, compreendendo análise de 19.487 currículos de conselheiros de administração e fiscais efetivos no país, além da análise das outras variáveis de governança, tais como avaliação formal de conselheiros, frequência de reuniões, tipos de contrato de remuneração e outras. Posteriormente, utilizou-se a técnica de Análise Fatorial para estabelecer constructos subjacentes e não correlacionados entre si, de modo que os coeficientes estimados nas regressões posteriores fossem reportados de forma mais consistente do que se construídos com um número limitado de variáveis individuais. Cinco fatores representam mais de 80% da variância dos dados, sinalizando que características como idade, formação básica em administração, contabilidade e/ou economia, remuneração, board interlocking e tamanho do conselho formam um agregado parcimonioso de características que representam a maior parte da diversidade subjacente dos conselhos brasileiros. Destarte, após análise de simultaneidade dos modelos, testou-se as associações existentes entre as propriedades dos números contábeis e os fatores de GC por intermédio de modelos de regressão múltipla estimados pelo método OLS, e de modelos de regressão logística, controlados por setor, tamanho das empresas, adesão aos níveis diferenciados de governança, emissão de ADR, presença de CF permanente instalado, estrutura de propriedade e outros. Os resultados indicam uma associação inversa e significante entre a proporção dos membros que participam de outros CAs e os níveis de persistência, sinalizando que empresas com CAs formados por membros dedicados tendem a reportar, na média, lucros mais persistentes. A remuneração variável é positivamente relacionada com a persistência dos lucros reportados sugerindo que a remuneração dos conselheiros é influenciada pela substância econômica dos resultados divulgados e com o conservadorismo contido no lucro sinalizando para redução do conservadorismo contábil na medida em que a remuneração variável dos conselheiros aumenta. A idade também mostrou ser fator relevante para explicar os níveis de conservadorismo e de gerenciamento de resultados das firmas, sinalizando tendência de maior grau de conservadorismo e menor grau de gerenciamento de resultados por parte dos conselheiros mais velhos. Adicionalmente, não foi possível afirmar que o conselho fiscal afeta de forma positiva o monitoramento da qualidade dos lucros reportados no mercado de capitais brasileiro / In view of the difficulty of observing the day-to-day activities of members of oversight board and board of directors, academics and professionals wonder about the importance of corporate governance (CG) structures when the subject is the propiety of accounting numbers. In this sense, besides discussing extensively and tracing an overview of the configuration of these boards in Brazil over the past five years, I also study how these and other CG structures are associated with proxies of accounting information of Brazilian firms. Contrary to what has been found in the existing literature, I seek to understand the environment of the board of directors (BoD) and oversight board (OB) more broadly, evaluating in an aggregate way 35 variables of structural, remuneration and composition characteristics of these boards, considering their interrelations and implications when associated with variables that measure the informational properties contained in earnings. For that, I analyze, on average, 325 companies per year and 19,487 résumés of the members of these boards, in addition to analyzing other variables such as their attendance at meetings, compensation contracts, board interlocking and others. Later, I use factor analysis to establish underlying constructs not correlated with each other, so that the estimated coefficients in subsequent regressions are reported more consistently than if built with a limited number of individual variables. Five factors represent more than 80% of the variance of the data, signaling that characteristics such as age, basic training in business administration, accounting and/or economics, board compensation, board size and interlocking form a thrifty aggregate of characteristics that represent most of the underlying diversity of Brazilian boards. Thus, after analysis of simultaneity, I test the existing associations between the earnings quality and factors of CG through multiple regression models estimated by OLS and logistic regression models, controlled by sector, firm size, adherence to the different levels of corporate governance, issuance of ADRs, presence of a permanent OB, ownership structure and others. The results indicate a significant inverse association between the proportion of members who participate in other BoDs and persistence levels of earnings, signaling that companies with BoDs formed by dedicated members tend to report, on average, more persistent earnings. The variable pay for board members is positively related to earnings persistense suggesting that the board members compensation is influenced by the economic substance of the disclosed results and with accounting conservatism signaling a decrease in accounting conservatism when the remuneration of these members increases. The age of members also proved to be a relevant factor to explain the levels of conservatism and earnings management of firms, signaling a trend toward greater levels of conservatism and a lesser levels of earnings management of when these boards are formed of older members. Additionally, it was not possible to affirm that the oversight board has a positive effect on the quality of monitoring accounting information reported in the Brazilian capital market.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2017-02-07T15:14:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Antônio Carlos Brunozi Júnior_.pdf: 1890196 bytes, checksum: 03f07bf855edd36df1c185cbdcae5b2c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-07T15:14:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antônio Carlos Brunozi Júnior_.pdf: 1890196 bytes, checksum: 03f07bf855edd36df1c185cbdcae5b2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-28 / Nenhuma / As diferenças nas apurações do Lucro Contábil e o do Lucro Tributário, denominadas de Book-Tax Differences (BTD), tornaram-se um assunto de discussão e relevância no final da década de 1990 e início dos anos 2000, principalmente nos Estados Unidos e na Europa. Com a sua evolução, houve a expansão e o interesse da academia nessa temática em vários países. Os acadêmicos perceberam que as BTD possuíam um papel informativo para as empresas e essa constatação permitiu diversos estudos que relacionaram as BTD com a qualidade dos resultados contábeis. Nessas pesquisas foram consideradas que as BTD refletiam somente as diferenças regulatórias das normas contábeis e fiscais, ou seja, as diferenças permanentes e temporárias. No entanto, Tang (2006) ampliou essa constatação e argumentou que as BTD são formadas por dois componentes. Para o autor, além das diferenças regulatórias, as BTD são compostas pelas discricionariedades dos gestores nas empresas, contemplando práticas e comportamentos oportunistas para os gerenciamentos dos resultados contábeis e tributários. Tang (2006) denominou as diferenças regulatórias de BTD Normais e as práticas de manipulações dos resultados de BTD Anormais. Essa separação dos componentes das BTD é o foco dessa tese, principalmente as BTD Anormais, para analisar os seus efeitos sobre a qualidade dos lucros nas empresas. Na presente tese se defendeu que as BTD Anormais são instrumentos utilizados pelos gestores para manipular os resultados das empresas. Com essas ações, há possíveis evidências de assimetrias informacionais, mostrando que existem diferenças entre os resultados reportados e os reais das firmas de capital aberto analisadas. Com isso, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar as influências das BTD, decorrentes das práticas de gerenciamentos de resultados contábeis e tributários, na qualidade dos resultados contábeis em empresas de capital aberto listadas no Brasil. O contexto brasileiro é adequado para esse estudo, pois houve acontecimentos que incentivaram as variações das BTD, como: a adoção das IFRS e a manutenção da legislação tributária. Além disso, no país há evidências concretas de práticas de manipulações dos resultados contábeis, de planejamento tributário agressivo e elevada evasão fiscal nas empresas. Diante do exposto, a presente tese defendeu que as BTD Anormais diminuem a qualidade dos lucros em empresas de capital aberto listadas no Brasil. Para a concretização deste estudo, metodologicamente, foram consideradas 290 empresas listadas na BMF&Bovespa, no período de 2002 a 2015. Como inovação da tese foi operacionalizado um modelo para estimar as BTD Anormais no contexto brasileiro e ainda essa pesquisa foi original ao relacionar as BTD Anormais com a qualidade dos lucros em empresas listadas no Brasil. Para a qualidade dos resultados contábeis foram consideradas as dimensões de persistências dos resultados contábeis e tributários, gerenciamento de resultados, value relevance e conservadorismo contábil. Como percepções adicionais, o estudo analisou as associações das BTD Anormais e a qualidade dos lucros antes e após a adoção das IFRS. Para a consistência das estimações desse estudo, foi aplicada a técnica de dados em painel dinâmico com GMM. Os resultados foram significativos e corroboraram com a tese proposta. Primeiro, o estudo estimou uma medida consistente para as BTD Anormais no contexto brasileiro, com relações significativas com o gerenciamento de resultados e o planejamento tributário. Segundo, os achados dessa pesquisa indicaram para a diminuição da qualidade dos lucros com as influências das BTD Anormais. As hipóteses foram aceitas, em sua maioria, e evidenciaram resultados contábeis nas empresas menos persistentes, conservadores e relevantes devido aos efeitos das BTD Anormais. Além disso, mostrou-se que esse tipo de BTD incentiva os accruals discricionários e diminui a qualidade dos accruals. Os resultados ainda mostraram que os efeitos das BTD Anormais sobre a qualidade dos resultados foram mais pronunciados após a adoção das IFRS. Essas constatações podem indicar que com a adoção das IFRS ocorreram tendências para a maior discricionariedade dos gestores e o possível aumento das BTD. Testes suplementares confirmaram a adequabilidade da medida de BTD Anormais com seus efeitos mais pronunciados do que as BTD Normais, relações com os custos de agência e variações pelos ciclos de vida das empresas. Em suma, o estudo contribuiu com adições de constatações para a literatura nacional e internacional. A tese é inovadora ao propor a medida de BTD Anormais no Brasil e original ao relacioná-la com a qualidade dos lucros, com novas dimensões deste conceito de qualidade que contribuíram para as pesquisas internacionais. Em meios gerais, o estudo reforçou que as BTD devem ser consideradas pelos seus componentes, com os discricionários causando assimetria informacional e afetando a qualidade dos lucros nas empresas. Além disso, a pesquisa potencializou com informações os recorrentes debates nos países sobre a conformidade financeira-fiscal para as empresas. / The differences in the verification of Financial Profit and Tax Profit, known as Book-Tax Differences (BTD), have became a discussion topic and relevant issue in the end of the 1990’s and in the early 2000’s, especially in the United States and in Europe. With its evolution, there was the expansion and the academic interest on this theme in many countries. The scholars noted that the BTD had an informative role for the companies and this finding made it possible to many studies relate the BTD with the earnings quality. These researches considered that BTD reflected only regulatory differences in relation to accounting and tax rules, that is, temporary and permanent differences. However, Tang (2006) enlarged that finding and argued that the BTD were built by two elements. According to the author, besides regulatory differences, BTD are composed by discretion of managers in the companies, contemplating practices and opportunistic behaviors to the management of financial and tax results. Tang (2006) called the regulatory differences Normal BTD and the practices of results manipulation Abnormal BTD. The separation of these components is the focus of this thesis, especially the Abnormal BTD, in order to analyze their effects on the earnings quality in publicly traded companies. This study is justified by the premise that Abnormal BTD are instruments used by the managers in order to manipulate the company’s results. With these attitudes, there are possible evidences of informational asymmetry, showing that there are differences between the reported results and the real results in the publicly traded companies that were analyzed. Having this in mind, the present research had the objective to analyze the BTD influences, caused by the management practices of financial and tax results, in the earnings quality in the publicly traded companies listed in Brazil. The Brazilian context is appropriate for this study, because there were events that motivated BTD variations, such as: IFRS adoption and the continuation of the tributary law. Besides, there are concrete evidences of accounting results manipulation practices, aggressive tax planning and high tax evasion inside companies. Thus, the present thesis defended that Abnormal BTD decrease the earnings quality in publicly traded companies listed in Brazil. In order to make this study concrete, in terms of methodology, 290 companies listed at BMF&Bovespa were considered, in the period from 2002 to 2015. As thesis innovation, a model was operationalized in order to estimate Abnormal BTD in the Brazilian context and this research was also original because it related the Abnormal BTD to earnings quality of companies listed in Brazil. For accounting results quality, the dimensions of the persistence of financial and tax results were considered, as well as earnings management, value relevance, and accounting conservatism. As additional perceptions, the study analyzed the associations between Abnormal BTD and earnings quality before and after the adoption of IFRS. To ensure the consistency of this study estimates, a dynamic data panel model with GMM technique was applied. The results were significant and corroborated the proposed thesis. First, the study estimated a consistent measure for the Abnormal BTD in the Brazilian context, with significant relations with the earnings management and tax planning. Second, the findings in this research indicate a decrease in earnings quality with Abnormal BTD influence. The hypotheses were mostly accepted, and they highlighted financial results for the less persistent companies, conservative and relevant due to the Abnormal BTD effects. Furthermore, it was showed that this kind of BTD encourage discretionary accruals and decreases the quality of accruals. The results also showed that the Abnormal BTD effects on the earnings quality were more significant after the adoption of IFRS. These observations may indicate more discretionary allowed to the managers and the possible raise of BTD with those international standards. Supplementary tests proved the adequacy of Abnormal BTD measure with more pronounced effects that the Normal BTD, relations with the agency costs and variations throughout the company’s life cycle. In summary, this study provides findings additions to the national and international literature. The thesis was innovative as it proposed the Abnormal BTD measure in Brazil and original when it related Abnormal BTD with earnings quality, with new dimensions that contributed to international research. On the whole, this study reinforced that BTD must be considered by their elements, with the discretionary causing information asymmetry and affecting the earnings quality for companies. Moreover, the research potencialized with information the recurrent debate around the countries about the Book-tax conformity in the companies.

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Syfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om blankade bolag har lägre grad av earnings quality än icke-blankade bolag. Metod: Kvantitativ metod, t-test för två populationer som antar olika varianser. Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet i den här studien visar att blankade bolag inte har lägre grad av earnings quality än icke-blankade bolag. Resultatet visar även att icke-blankade bolag har lägre grad av earnings quality än blankade bolag. Därför kan jag inte uttala mig om huruvida blankare använder earnings quality vid tagandet av blankningspositioner / Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine if shorted companies have poorer earnings quality than non-shorted companies Method: Quantitative analysis, t-test for two-sample assuming unequal variances Result and conclusion: The results of this study show that shorted companies do not have poorer earnings quality than non-shorted companies. The results also indicate that non-shorted companies have poorer earnings quality than shorted companies. Thus, I cannot comment on whether short sellers are using information about earnings quality when taking short positions

本研究旨在探討我國一般產業之上市公司，其分析師盈餘預測與管理當局盈餘預測間之差異，並且檢視在資本市場中是否具有抑制公司經理人員任意發佈預測之機制。除此之外，亦檢測市場達成共識之程度是否為管理者盈餘管理之誘因，以及其盈餘管理的程度與方向。 研究樣本取自我國上市公司一般產業之財務預測年資料與實際經營結果財務年資料，研究期間涵蓋自民國85年至88年止。 實證結果發現管理當局不論是對市場傳遞好消息或壞消息，皆是其盈餘管理之結果。再者，當市場預期趨近於一致時，公司管理當局愈會對市場傳遞出中性消息，亦即分析師之盈餘預測與管理當局盈餘預測趨於無差異。同時公司亦可能基於市場壓力，而利用裁決性應計項目以從事盈餘管理。當操縱前盈餘高於分析師預期之平均盈餘時且市場達成共識時，經理人員會傾向不從事盈餘管理，而在市場預期一致性程度低時，從事盈餘管理；反之，當操縱前盈餘低於分析師預期之平均盈餘，且市場預期一致性程度高時才會進行盈餘管理以增加盈餘而達成市場的預期。 / I test a market expectations and market consensus hypothesis about earnings management in Taiwan's public firms from 1996 to 1999. First of all, no matter what a good news or bad news that managers spread in markets is the result of earnings management. Furthermore, when analysts have reached a consensus in their earnings forecasts, managers' earnings forecasts are close to market expectations as possible. At the same time, managers also have an incentive to manage earnings through discretionary accruals to achieve market expectations. Finally, all sample-corporations are split into two groups. Group 1 observations have nondiscretionary earnings below the mean analysts' forecast, and Group 2 observations have nondiscretionary earnings above the mean analysts' forecast. The results suggest the corporation managers in Group 1 make greater use of discretionary accruals to manipulate earnings to achieve market expectations when analysts have reached a consensus in their earnings predictions. Oppositely, the corporation managers in Group 2 make less use of discretionary accruals to save them in use of next period when analysts lacks consensus in their earnings forecasts.

This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between accounting earnings and stock prices. It consists of three empirical papers, all using a sample of firms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (1990-2008). The first paper documents the existence of a drift in stock prices subsequent to quarterly earnings announcements. Two interesting empirical observations are that the drift is only significant for longer holding periods and that the drift on the short position, i.e. after bad earnings news, is negligible. The lack of downward drift on the short position is interpreted as an indication of the post-earnings announcement drift, at least partly, being explained by investors demanding a compensation for a risk factor that is omitted in the test design. The second paper illustrates under what conditions information risk in the earnings signal might explain a low announcement reaction and a price drift in the post-announcement period. It is hypothesized that two earnings signals – based either on GAAP earnings or core earnings – have different levels of information uncertainty with respect to how they depict the value creation of the firm. In the empirical sections, it is concluded that the low immediate announcement reaction and high post-announcement drift for the GAAP earnings signal is due to this signal being perceived by investors as containing more uncertainty than the core earnings signal. It is argued that this uncertainty might be due to GAAP earnings encompassing items that prior research has shown more likely to be manipulated and/or to contain estimation error. The positive association between information risk and expected return is further investigated in the third paper, where information risk is measured by earnings quality metrics. Using a new approach to estimate the implied cost of capital, it is found that Swedish investors demand a higher expected return for firms with poor earnings quality, i.e. firms associated with higher information risk. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, 2011