2003
DOI: 10.1506/480d-098u-607r-5d9w
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Earnings Management Using the Valuation Allowance for Deferred Tax Assets under SFAS No. 109*

Abstract: Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 ( SFAS No. 109 ) allows firms to use their discretion to set arbitrarily high valuation allowances against deferred tax assets. Firms can then later use these "hidden reserves" to manage earnings. Our evidence indicates that most banks do not record a valuation allowance to manage earnings, but rather to follow the guidelines of SFAS No. 109 . However, if the bank is sufficiently well capitalized to absorb the current-period impact on capital, then the amoun… Show more

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“…After joint evaluation of Bauman et al (2001), Christensen et al (2008), andFrank andRego (2006), we conclude that the extant literature provides no conclusive evidence that mangers use the VA account to enhance the magnitude of a big bath. Schrand and Wong (2003) investigate whether firms use the VA account to create hidden reserves. They examine whether banks (which tend to have large DTAs) created reserves when they initially set up their VA accounts at the adoption of SFAS No.…”
Section: Studies Of Earnings Management Via the Valuation Allowancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…After joint evaluation of Bauman et al (2001), Christensen et al (2008), andFrank andRego (2006), we conclude that the extant literature provides no conclusive evidence that mangers use the VA account to enhance the magnitude of a big bath. Schrand and Wong (2003) investigate whether firms use the VA account to create hidden reserves. They examine whether banks (which tend to have large DTAs) created reserves when they initially set up their VA accounts at the adoption of SFAS No.…”
Section: Studies Of Earnings Management Via the Valuation Allowancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, SFAS 109 requires that managers record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets if, given the weight of available evidence, it is likely that some (or all) of the deferred tax asset will not be realized. Frank and Rego (2006) provide evidence that firms use the valuation allowance to beat the consensus analyst forecast, although other evidence of earnings management is mixed (Visvanathan 1998;Miller and Skinner 1998;Schrand and Wong 2003).…”
Section: Literature and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 See alsoKrull (2004),Frank and Rego (2006),Schrand and Wong (2003),Blouin and Tuna (2007) for other papers that discuss opportunistic use of the tax expense.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It is unusual for the cumulative effects of such flow measures to be many times larger than a firm's total assets-a stock measure. In comparison, the mean of the DTA valuation allowance is only 13.1% of the gross DTA in Schrand and Wong (2003 , Table 1). CMS provide a note in Appendix A about the large magnitude of this allowance account.…”
Section: Execution Issuesmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…1 CMS is distinctive in three ways. First, CMS is one of a few studies that investigate the reporting of individual accounts for evidence of earnings management (Jackson & Liu, 2010;Marquardt & Wiedman, 2004;McNichols & Wilson, 1988;Schrand & Wong, 2003). Studying individual accounts for earnings management behavior not only overcomes some measurement problems that researchers face (e.g., what do unmanaged earnings look like?…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%