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Earnings Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Does Governmental Financing Play a Role?

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  • Verbruggen, Sandra

    () (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), Belgium)

  • Christiaens, Johan

    () (Universiteit Gent Faculteit Economie & Bedrijfskunde)

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    A vast amount of research has documented the existence of earnings management in for-profit settings. Nonprofit organizations are thought to pay less attention to the bottom line of the income statement. Earnings management research in nonprofit settings has therefore focused on the manipulation of expenses in order to improve efficiency ratios or taxable income, not reported earnings per se. Given a setting in which such ratios are not reported to the public, manipulation of the actual bottom line by nonprofit organizations is explored in light of the importance of governmental subsidies. The results suggest that nonprofit organizations drive their results towards the breakeven point and that manipulation seems to be intensified by increased governmental funding.

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    Paper provided by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management in its series Working Papers with number 2010/35.

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    Length: 42 page
    Date of creation: Nov 2010
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