tailieunhanh - Learning Financial Accounting Theory_10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning financial accounting theory_10', tài chính - ngân hàng, kế toán - kiểm toán phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Earnings M anagement 375 be a blunt and pt an income-accelerated to into two port- id of firms that were made the also use such being changed very often. Thus accounting policy changes tend to inflexible weapon. Healy did not find that his sample firms used accounting policy changes the same way they used accruals. That is policy changes were not used to increase annual reported net income in the MID range and to decrease it for LOW and HIGH incomes. Presumably a reason is that accruals are a more effective way to accomplish this objective. Nevertheless it can be argued that if managers are going to change accounting policies a good time to do it is just after introduction or amendment of a bonus plan. A manager may be motivated at that time to ado increasing accounting policy change for example a switch from straight-line amortization . This policy change would increase the expected bonus in future years particularly if there was no cap on the bonus scheme. To test this reasoning Healy classified his sample companies folios for each year from 1968 to 1980. One portfolio consisted of firms that adopted or modified their bonus plan in the year the other consist did not. If the above argument is correct the first portfolio should have more accounting policy changes than the second. Healy found that in 9 of the 12 years over which comparisons portfolio of firms with bonus plan changes did in fact have more accounting policy changes. This provides significant evidence that managers changes as an earnings management vehicle. However in view of the finding that managers did not use ac changes to influence individual years net income it seems th accounting policy changes is a longer-run earnings management device. Such changes can be used to give a general upward or downward influence on net income over a period of time extending from adoption or modifier plan. Presumably individual years in this time period can then have their reported net incomes fine-tuned by means of

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