2016
DOI: 10.5296/ajfa.v7i2.8537
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Does Ownership Structure Affect Jordanian Companies’ Tendency to Practice Earnings Management?

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure on a firm's ability to practice earnings management. To achieve this goal all 77th Jordanian industrial companies listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) for the period 2000-2014 were selected resulting in 1089 firm-year observations. The empirical results suggest that the earnings management practices of Jordanian industrial companies listed at ASE are influenced by the ownership structure. Precisely, the result shows that equity concentration… Show more

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“…Their results indicate that managers' ownership is negatively correlated with going-concern evaluations. This finding is consistent with Alves (2012); Alzoubi (2016) and Ramadan (2016). In Jordan, Makhlouf et al (2017) examined the association between directors' ownership and firm performance for a panel of 120 of Jordanian companies.…”
Section: Board Of Director's Ownershipsupporting
confidence: 74%
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“…Their results indicate that managers' ownership is negatively correlated with going-concern evaluations. This finding is consistent with Alves (2012); Alzoubi (2016) and Ramadan (2016). In Jordan, Makhlouf et al (2017) examined the association between directors' ownership and firm performance for a panel of 120 of Jordanian companies.…”
Section: Board Of Director's Ownershipsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…Ownership concentration refers to the proportion of firm's stock owned by a certain number of institutions, individuals or families (Oluku, 2017). "Previous studies show that ownership concentration is correlated with company going-concern (e.g., Noor Amran & Ahmad, 2010;Oluku, 2017;Ramadan, 2016). Oluku (2017) concludes that the firm's going concern depends on its ownership structure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…1 et al, 1998. Leverage (LEV) is included as firms with a higher likelihood of violating debt agreements are more likely to have an incentive to engage in earnings management so as to reduce audit quality (Ramadan, 2015;Sweeney, 1994). We also controlled for return on assets (ROA) as performance of the firm may affect the application of accruals to manage earnings (Kothari et al, 2005) which indicate low audit quality.…”
Section: Regression Model and Measurement Of Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…shareholders and creditors) may affect the quality of reported information. Managers may provide financial information dishonestly to protect their own interests while the principals cannot directly observe managers' behavior (Ramadan, 2015;Williams, 1988). External audits help to reduce information asymmetries between managers and principals by lending credibility to financial statements (Almomani, 2015;Carey, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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