%0 Journal Article
%T Pre Managed Earnings Benchmarks and Earnings Management of Australian Firms
%A Lan Sun
%A Subhrendu Rath
%J Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal
%D 2012
%I University of Wollongong
%X This study investigates benchmark beating behaviour and circumstances under which managers inflate earnings to beat earnings benchmarks. We show that two benchmarks, positive earnings and positive earnings change, are associated with earnings manipulation. Using a sample ofAustralian firms from 2000 to 2006, we find that when the underlying earnings are negative or below prior year¡¯s earnings, firms are more likely to use discretionary accruals to inflate earnings to beat benchmarks.
%K Benchmark beating
%K earnings management
%K pre-managed earnings
%U http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol6/iss1/11