Managerial Overconfidence And Earnings Management In Switzerland
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between managerial overconfidence and earnings management in Switzerland. The sample collected for this empirical study covered 8 years of data from 20 IO to 2017. The top 100 public listed companies in SIX Swiss Exchange is examined wi...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37091/1/Shee%20Jia%20Min%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37091/ |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between managerial
overconfidence and earnings management in Switzerland. The sample collected for
this empirical study covered 8 years of data from 20 IO to 2017. The top 100 public
listed companies in SIX Swiss Exchange is examined within the time period stated,
with the total observation of 800. The empirical findings indicate that managerial
overconfidence has no significant relationship with both the discretionary accruals and
real earnings management. However, when the measurement of managerial
overconfidence is applied with another proxy, it shows a negative significant
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relationship with the discretionary accrual while has no significant association with
real earnings management. Lastly, corporate governance has no significant
relationship with the earnings management, both the discretionary accruals and real
earnings management. |
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