Earnings management to meet analysts’ forecasts

The object of this thesis is to investigate the tool of earnings management firms use to meet analysts’ forecasts and then provide evidence for setting slightly meet and slightly miss as indicator of earnings management. Managers have sort of incentives to meet analysts’ forecasts. In the prior lite...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, X. (Xin)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Oulu 2016
Subjects:
Online Access:http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606082469
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:fi:oulu-201606082469