Macroeconomic control,political costs and earnings management:Evidence from Chinese listed real estate companies

• 作者: Donghua Chen Guojun Wang Jieying Li Shangkun Liang
• 来源期刊: 中国会计学刊：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: POLITICAL COSTS EARNINGS management STATE-OWNED en
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（3）
• 页码范围: 91-106
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: F832.51

摘要

Firms in China have faced high political costs during China’s economic transition,because they are affected by macroeconomic policies.However,research to date has offered no consistent conclusions on the relationship between political costs and earnings management in China.This study tests whether real estate firms attempt to decrease earnings during periods of macroeconomic control,using variables related to the national real estate market as proxies for political costs.We find that political costs are negatively related to earnings management in listed real estate firms.In addition,we find that non-state-owned enterprises utilized more income-decreasing accruals during this period.Our results are consistent with the political costs hypothesis.