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Information Content of Earnings Managements: Implications on Growth and Value Companies

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  • Mulyasari, Windu
  • Sugiri, Slamet
  • Herdhayinta, Heyvon

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Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the pattern of earnings management on growth and value companies in Indonesia. This study predicts that earnings management has information contents. Therefore, earnings management tends to degrade the quality of earnings, then affect the future profitability. This study analyzes the effect of earnings management information content to the company's future profitability. This study provides an understanding about accounting information at certain market price levels for growth and value companies.Findings: Findings of this study indicate the differences between earnings management influence on growth and value companies. The results also support the differences of relative incremental information content of earnings management on growth and value companies. The growth firms tend to do earnings management and have higher profitability compared to the value firms. The implication is that the incremental information content of earnings management on growth firms is lower than those of the value firms to predict future profitability. &Implication: The contribution of this research is to provide an in-depth review on earnings management study associated with company life cycle (growth and value), as well as& to give additional understanding about the existence of incremental information content of earnings management. Thus, firms show different earnings management behaviors and ultimately those behaviors affect the quality of profit to predict future earnings

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  • Mulyasari, Windu & Sugiri, Slamet & Herdhayinta, Heyvon, 2016. "Information Content of Earnings Managements: Implications on Growth and Value Companies," Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 2(1), pages 47-56, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:src:jafeec:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:47-56
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v2i1.73
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