Political corruption and accounting choices

We examine how political corruption affects firms’ accounting choices. We hypothesize and find that firms headquartered in corrupt districts manipulate earnings downwards, relative to firms headquartered elsewhere. Our finding is robust to alternative corruption measures, alternative discretionary a...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Huai, Zhang, Jin
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162885
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English