2022
DOI: 10.21315/aamjaf2022.18.1.10
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The impact of initial public offering (IPO) attributes, firm-level characteristics and ownership on Malaysian IPO firms’ earnings management

Abstract: The paper investigates Malaysian Initial Public Offering (IPO) firms’ financial reporting behaviour from the specific perspective of their earnings management (EM) practices covering both real (REM) and accrual (AEM) techniques. It further examines the impact of unique IPO attributes, firm level characteristics and ownership structure on both EM practices contemporaneously. Using the established and commonly used EM models to measure both AEM and REM for IPO firms from 2002 to 2013, the results indicate that I… Show more

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“…Despite its hard work, the level of liquidity in the secondary market, i.e. the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) abide continuously low all through several decades (Ramlee & Ali, 2012). Although the Malaysian stock market is classified as having high market capitalization, yet its trading cost is still among the highest in emerging equity markets along with the Korean stock market (Domowitz, Glen, & Madhavan, 2000).…”
Section: Malaysian Stock Market and Its Liquidity Performancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite its hard work, the level of liquidity in the secondary market, i.e. the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) abide continuously low all through several decades (Ramlee & Ali, 2012). Although the Malaysian stock market is classified as having high market capitalization, yet its trading cost is still among the highest in emerging equity markets along with the Korean stock market (Domowitz, Glen, & Madhavan, 2000).…”
Section: Malaysian Stock Market and Its Liquidity Performancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some of the studies (e.g. Kalgo, Nahar, and Noordin (2022)) conducted on ownership show improvements in the performance of the institutions that have changed their ownership type or have worked on privatization. Differences in managerial and regulatory motivations, political goals and social commitments of government departments mainly lead to the expectation that the mentioned units have lower performance than those of similar institutions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, by having stronger incentives to gain profit and access to more information, institutional and corporate owners may have better performance (Shahzad, Raju, Farrukh, Kanwal, & Ikram, 2018). In addition, due to lower agency costs, institutions run and controlled by family based organizations should be more efficient than state institutions (Fama & Jensen, 1983;Kalgo et al, 2022). Therefore, the ownership structure can affect the company's Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Jadi, sebelum listing IPO, korporasi akan memanipulasi hasil melalui manajemen laba untuk mengelabui investor. (Kalgo et al, 2022).…”
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