Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 會計學系 === 90 === This study investigates the relationship between CEO compensation structure and components of earnings and that between CEO compensation structure and firm’s long-term performance. The larger the proportion of long-term incentive compensation in CEO’s total compensation, the better the firm’s long-term performance which is measured either as CFO, EVA○R, stock return, or accounting performance measures. On the contrary, higher proportion of short-term incentive compensation in total compensation can be obtained by manipulating accrual components. Firms with larger proportion of cash compensation have higher current discretionary accruals so that managers could be motivated toward managing discretionary current accruals to achieve target earnings. Such evidence suggests that compensation structure can be an important mechanism that induces manager’s efforts towards shareholders’ interest.
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