2014
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-759020140303
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Earnings management and economic crises in the brazilian capital market

Abstract: The 2008 economic crisis challenged accounting, either demanding recognition and measurement criteria well adjusted to this scenario or even questioning its ability to inform appropriately entities' financial situation before the crisis occurred. So, our purpose was to verify if during economic crises listed companies in the Brazilian capital market tended to adopt earnings management (EM) practices. Our sample consisted in 3,772 firm-years observations, in 13 years -1997 to 2009. We developed regression model… Show more

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“…A. Silva, Weffort, Flores and Silva (2014) find that Brazilian firms present relevant evidences of earnings management in the period concerning 2008 world economic instability, indicating that macroeconomic factors and institutional characteristics potentially influenced earnings management incentives in this period. It is important to assess if, and to which extent, these improvements have led Latin America to present a level of earnings management that is equivalent to the level of earnings management observed in Continental European and Anglo Saxon countries.…”
Section: Ifrs In Latin Americamentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…A. Silva, Weffort, Flores and Silva (2014) find that Brazilian firms present relevant evidences of earnings management in the period concerning 2008 world economic instability, indicating that macroeconomic factors and institutional characteristics potentially influenced earnings management incentives in this period. It is important to assess if, and to which extent, these improvements have led Latin America to present a level of earnings management that is equivalent to the level of earnings management observed in Continental European and Anglo Saxon countries.…”
Section: Ifrs In Latin Americamentioning
confidence: 95%
“…More leveraged firms may manipulate their accounting amounts to prevent violation of debt covenants or to achieve more favorable conditions from creditors (A. Silva, Weffort, Flores, & Silva, 2014). In line with the view of growth opportunities, firms with growing sales are seen as firms who are facing investment opportunities.…”
Section: It I T I T I T I T I T I T I T I T I Tmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Silva, Weffort, Flores, and Silva (2014) identified, for companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA, indications of earnings management in periods of financial crisis in Brazil. Thus, periods of greater financial market instability can reduce the quality of accounting information published by companies.…”
Section: Accounting Standardization -Ifrsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cabe ressaltar que alguns autores, tais como, Holanda e Coelho (2013), Maria Jr, Maria e Vargas (2013) e Silva et al (2014) ressaltam que a participação de capital estrangeiro poderia funcionar como incentivo a redução do gerenciamento de resultados, por conta da demanda por informações de maior qualidade. Neste contexto, o presente estudo procura responder as seguintes questões de pesquisa: quais os indícios de uso das provisões para crédito de liquidação duvidosa (PCLD) no gerenciamento de resultados de instituições financeiras no Brasil?…”
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