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Journal Article
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Earning Management: An Empirical Study of Chinese Listed Companies
2020
Overview
This empirical study aims to reveal that companies conduct earnings management by the fuzzy zone of allowance policy. It investigates the interrelationship between the allowance for doubtful accounts and earning management with the use of three hypotheses. The data used are from Chinese listed companies for the period 2008- 2017. The Chinese accounting standards have experienced two major changes and because of that, this study is divided into two parts. After the modification of 2014, the allowance for doubtful accounts and the reversal faced a huge difference comparing with previous rules. The findings prove that before 2014, Chinese listed companies manipulated the earnings with the help of allowance for doubtful accounts. However, afterwards the possibility of earning management deteriorates, showing the effectiveness of the fair value accounting standard improvement. Furthermore, return on equity shows less significant relationship with allowance for doubtful accounts. Although a previous study considers debt contracts enhances the negative relationship with allowance for doubtful accounts, the findings show instead a positive one. This simply means that high leverage ratio creates higher allowance for doubtful accounts.
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Scientific Press International Limited
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