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OF THE EARNINGS MANAGEMENT LITERATURE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR STANDARD SETTING
- Paul Healy, J. Wahlen, G. Miller, C. Noe, K. Petroni
- 1999
In this paper we review the academic evidence on earnings management and its implications for accounting standard setters and regulators. We structure our review around a rich set of questions likely… Expand
Earnings Management to Avoid Earnings Declines across Publicly and Privately Held Banks
- Anne Beatty, Bin Ke, K. Petroni
- Economics
- 14 March 2002
This study compares samples of publicly and privately held bank holding companies to examine whether the high frequency of small earnings increases relative to small earnings decreases reported by… Expand
CFOs and CEOs: Who Have the Most Influence on Earnings Management?
- J. Jiang, K. Petroni, I. Wang
- Business
- 1 June 2010
This study examines the association between chief financial officer (CFO) equity incentives and earnings management. Chief executive officer (CEO) equity incentives have been shown to be associated… Expand
Optimistic reporting in the property- casualty insurance industry*
- K. Petroni
- Business
- 1 December 1992
Abstract This paper examines the response of managers of property-casualty insures to the differential costs and benefits of understanding the liability for outstanding claim losses. The primary… Expand
What Insiders Know About Future Earnings and How They Use it: Evidence from Insider Trades
- Bin Ke, Steven Huddart, K. Petroni
- Economics, Business
- 17 February 2003
This paper provides evidence that insiders possess, and trade upon, knowledge of specific and economically-significant forthcoming accounting disclosures as long as two years prior to the disclosure.… Expand
How Informed are Actively Trading Institutional Investors? Evidence from Their Trading Behavior Before a Break in a String of Consecutive Earnings Increases
- Bin Ke, K. Petroni
- Economics, Business
- 14 January 2004
We examine whether transient institutional investors (i.e., institutions that trade actively to maximize short-term profits) have information that allows them to predict a break in a string of… Expand
Board Independence and Audit Firm Type
- Mark S. Beasley, K. Petroni
- Business
- 1 October 1998
This paper investigates the role of outside members of the board of directors in the choice of external auditor for property-casualty insurance companies. Consistent with our hypothesis that we… Expand
Ownership Concentration and Sensitivity of Executive Pay to Accounting Performance Measures: Evidence from Publicly and Privately-Held Insurance Companies
- Bin Ke, K. Petroni, Assem Safieddine
- Business
- 1998
Comprehensive Income: Who's Afraid of Performance Reporting?
- Linda Smith Bamber, J. Jiang, K. Petroni, I. Wang
- Economics
- 2010
ABSTRACT: Firms can report comprehensive income in either an income‐statement‐like performance statement or the statement of equity. Traditional theories of contracting incentives cannot explain this… Expand
Errors in Accounting Estimates and their Relation to Audit Firm Type
- K. Petroni, Mark Beasley
- Economics
- 21 January 1996
We assess accuracy and bias in the accounting estimate of outstanding claim losses reported in the audited statutory financial statements of 197 property-casualty insurers during 1979-1983. Our… Expand