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The Study of Earnings Management and Financial Performance of Financial holding companies which Before and After the implementation of SFAS No. 34

The financial sector due to the particularity of the industry, the government set a lot of control provisions, therefore most of the earnings management research will set financial sector excluded. In fact, the financial sector, in order to comply with the legal provisions, which the motives of earnings management may be even higher than the average company.
This study used The Modified Jones Model to calculate the proxy of discretionary accruals as an earnings management¡Ffinancial holding company engaged in the amount of the core subsidiary of the format category to measure the extent of its related diversification¡Fand the implementation of SFAS No. 34 divided into two study period, to explore the relationship between the relevant level of diversification and earnings management, earnings management and financial asset disposition gains and losses, earnings management and financial performance is different.
Empirical results show that: (1)Before and after of SFAS No. 34 implementation , the higher the degree of diversification of financial holding company, the earning management were higher.(2) Before and after of SFAS No. 34 implementation, the financial holding company will make use of the disposal of financial assets in order to increase the gain on disposal for earnings management.(3) Before and after of SFAS No. 34 implementation, the financial holding company will engage in earnings management operations in order to enhance the company's financial performance.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0705112-004647
Date05 July 2012
CreatorsLin, Ming-hua
ContributorsPei-how Huang, C. H. Tseng, Cher-Min Fong
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0705112-004647
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