• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.59-70
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• 2022

This study investigates the sensitivity reflected in the accounting earnings differs according to the difference in the characteristics of accounting information such as profit and loss for the same market information. For this, market information and accounting data were analyzed for 11,462 non-financial listed companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets from 2012 to 2020 by using Basu's measurement of conditional conservatism and Ball and Shivakumar's measurement of conservatism. Accounting earnings sensitivity was analyzed according to the combination of information. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that both earnings and losses corporates recognize losses with delay, while losses are recognized quickly by loss corporates and delayed recognition by earnings companies. It was confirmed that more strict conservatism was applied to the losses corporates compared to the earnings corporates by delaying the recognition of earnings while the early recognition of the losses. It provides empirical data on the causality between the asymmetric timeliness and the combined effect of market information and accounting information by verifying that the losses corporates responds sensitively to market information while the earnings corporates does not react sensitively to the market information.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.341-348
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• 2022

This study analyzed the accounting conservatism of companies listed on KONEX. The analysis of the existing accounting conservatism presents the analysis results for the KOSPI market or the KOSDAQ market. However, in July 2013, Korea opened a new publicly traded market called KONEX, which has been continuously operated to increase the possibility of SMEs' financing. However, research on KONEX has not been conducted relatively actively, and the current prior research is also focused on earnings management. This study differs from previous studies in that it analyzes accounting conservatism, which is one of the accounting policies. For this purpose, the period from 2014 to 2020 was set as the analysis period, and empirical analysis was conducted using the asymmetric timeliness models, Ball and Shivakumar (2005) and Basu (1997). As a result of the analysis, conditional conservatism was also confirmed in the KONEX market. That is, it was confirmed that the timeliness of the bad news was higher than the good news. Second, no significant difference was found in the results of analyzing whether there is a difference in the conservatism of KONEX companies according to the size of the auditor. In other words, it was confirmed that the size of the auditor in the KONEX market is not a significant variable. This study expanded the existing research in that it analyzed accounting policies targeting the KONEX market.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.187-207
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• 2018

This study examines the negative relationship between accounting conservatism and excess executive compensation and examines whether their relationship increases as managerial incentive compensation intensity increases. For this purpose, a total of 2,755 company-years were selected for the analysis of the companies listed on the Korea Stock Exchange from December 2012 to 2016 as the final sample. The results of this study are as follows. First, there is a statistically significant negative relationship between accounting conservatism and manager overpayment. This implies that managers' incentives to distort future cash flow estimates by over booking assets or accounting profits in order to maximize their compensation when manager compensation is linked to firm performance. In this sense, accounting conservatism can reduce opportunistic behavior by restricting managerial accounting choices, which can be interpreted as a reduction in overpayment to managers. Second, we found that the relationship between accounting conservatism and excess executive compensation increases with the incentive compensation for accounting performance. The higher the managerial incentive compensation intensity of accounting performance is, the more likely it is that the manager has the incentive to make earnings adjustments. Therefore, the high level of incentive compensation for accounting performance means that the ex post settling up problem due to over-compensation can become serious. In this case, the higher the managerial incentive compensation intensity for accounting performance, the greater the role and utility of conservatism in manager compensation contracts. This study is based on the fact that it presents empirical evidence on the usefulness of accounting conservatism in managerial compensation contracts theoretically presented by Watts (2003) and the additional basis that conservatism can be used as a useful tool for investment decision.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-98
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• 2000

본 연구는 1988년 6월부터 1994년 12월까지 우리나라 주식시장에 상장된 267개 최초공모주 를 대상으로 3년간 성과를 분석하고 그리고 이들 기업들이 채택한 이익관리방법에 따라 성과에 차이가 나는지를 분석하였다. 실증분석 결과, 누적초과수익률(CAR)로 추정한 최초공모주의 장기성과는 양(+)의 초과성과를 매입보유초과수익률(BHAR)로 추정한 경우에서는 저성과를 보였으나 통계적으로 유의하지는 않았다. 그리고 공개기업의 이익관리방법에 따라 성과에 차이가 나는지를 보기위해 표본기업 267개 기업중 기업의 결산시점이 달라 분석이 어려운 기업들을 제외한 후 219개 기업을 표본으로 하여 누적초과수익률(CAR)과 매입보유초과수익률(BHAR)로 분석한 결과, 두 모형 모두에서 기업의 이익을 공격적으로 관리한 기업(DCA2)의 성과가 이익을 보수적으로 관리한 기업(DAC1)의 성과보다 낮게 나타났으나 통계적으로 유의하지는 않았다. 이상의 결과에 대해 명확한 해석을 내리기에는 기업의 제반환경 및 여건 등이 영향을 미칠 수 있어 어려움이 따르나 고려할 수 있는 이유 중 하나로 최초공모주 기업들이 공개에 앞서 기업성과를 과대계상하거나 또는 매출액 및 이익부풀리기 등과 같은 분식회계처리방법이 한 요인이 된 것으로 해석할 수 있다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.177-188
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• 2021

On December 2015, Financial Supervisory Service(FSS) announced the four key thematic audit review areas, one of them is an appropriation of unbilled revenue. Accounting of unbilled revenue is intertwined with a percentage of completion, that is concerned about discretionary decision by manager. Therefore, if manager motivated by income-increasing manipulation is exaggerating percentage of completion, unbilled revenue is excessively recognized. This problem is caused the serious accounting issues(e.g., shock at a loss for 2013 fiscal year by some construction firms, malpractice of accounting in order-made production industry). Distrust of accounting was grown because the shipbuilding and construction industries successively went poor management and bad accounting of them is revealed. Those accounting issues were the trigger for problem recognition of unbilled revenue, they were background for the designation of appropriation unbilled revenue as thematic audit review areas by FSS. Therefore, this study verified effectiveness of thematic audit review by empirically analyzing whether designation of thematic audit review makes the firm increases conservative behavior. Conservative accounting is estimated by using Basu(1997) model. We analyzed the effect of the thematic audit review on conservative accounting of unbilled revenue by comparing with reflecting unbilled revenue or not. The sample for test consists of firm-years the manufacturing and construction industries from 2012 to 2017. The test results of this study suggested that the conservative accounting of unbilled revenue after designation of the thematic audit review was significantly increased. We also tested again by classifying whether or not it is construction industry. We found that construction industry is more conservative than the other industry only for the designated year of the thematic audit review, otherwise there was not any evidence for significantly increasing conservatism. This study contributes to the literature by empirically analysing relationship of the unbilled revenue to the thematic audit review from the perspective of the conservatism and verifying effectiveness of the thematic audit review.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.61-82
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• 1999

대주주들이 경영권을 직접 행사하고 있는 우리나라의 경영환경에서 기업의 의사결정은 대주주의 보유지분 정도에 따라 상당히 달라 질 수 있다. 즉, 소유경영자의 지분이 적으면 적을수록 경영자 자신의 이익과 전체 주주의 이익은 괴리되고 경영자의 경영상의 위험수용성(危險受容性)은 높아지게 된다. 이에 따라 내부지분율이 낮은 기업일수록 보다 높은 성장을 선호하고 위험성이 높은 투자대안을 선택할 가능성이 증대된다. 상기한 연구가설을 검정하기 위하여 94년부터 97년까지 4년간의 상장기업 자료를 이용하여 내부지분율과 부채비율, 그리고 성장률과의 관계를 분석하였다. 특히, 내부지분율을 포함하는 기업의 재무구조 다중회귀모형과 성장률의 다중회귀모형을 구축하여 내부지분율이 기업의 재무구조와 성장률에 대한 유의적인 설명력을 보유하고 없는지 여부를 검정하였다. 실증분석 결과는 내부지분율이 낮은 기업일수록 부채비율과 성장률이 상대적으로 높다는 연구가설을 일관성 있게 지지하고 있다. 이러한 연구결과는 정부의 기업정책에 대한 중요한 시사점을 던져주고 있다. 즉, 이제까지 기업들은 경영권에 대한 위협없이 내부지분율을 저하시킬 수 있었고, 이러한 상황에서 기업의 고부채, 고성장 전략은 소유경영자의 시각에서 볼 때는 극히 합리적인 것이었다. 하지만, 정부가 기업의 매수합병시장을 활성화시키면 많은 기업들은 경영권의 보호를 위해 내부지분율을 높이게 될 것이다. 이 경우 기업들은 보다 보수적인 경영을 하게 되어 부채비율은 낮아지고 과도한 성장정책은 지양될 것으로 예상된다. 따라서, 보다 건전한 기업경영을 유도하기 위해서는 내부지분율이 제고되어야 하고, 이를 위해서는 아직도 남아있는 매수합병의 장애요인들을 조속히 제거하는 것이 필요할 것이다.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.123-140
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• 2016

This study investigates whether tax subsidy is associated with the information effect of future earnings (Future Earnings Response Coefficient, hereafter 'FERC'). Prior studies related with tax subsidy suggest that high- tax subsidy is associated with high-Conservatism. And high-tax subsidy is associated with low-information asymmetry. The hypothesis is tested by using sample firms listed on the Korean Stock Exchange from the year of 2002 to the year of 2009 inclusively. We followed methodology of Tucker and Zarowin (2006). We find that the regression coefficient for tax $subsidy{\times}X_{t3}$ shows a significant positive sign. Also, we performed additional test after controlling for variables related with FERC. The regression coefficient for tax $subsidy{\times}X_{t3}$ is consistent with main results. This result means that the changes in the current stock price of higher-tax subsidy contain more information about their future earnings than the changes in the stock price of lower-abnormal audit hours. The evidence suggests that investors positively understand high-tax subsidy.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.729-736
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• 2023

Traditionally, Germany, a conservative welfare state, has pursued a male breadwinner model based on gender division of labor. For a long time, Germany tried to address low fertility through economic support centered on cash benefits, but it was not successful. In 2007, the German government began to shift the paradigm of family policy for work-life balance under the slogan of "A mix of time policy, income transfer, and infrastructure." When the issue of low birth rates emerged as a national concern in Germany, there was a growing social sentiment that not only the government but also private companies should contribute to increasing fertility by providing family-friendly personnel policies and working conditions. Private companies have been voluntarily improving family-friendly working conditions beyond legal obligations, aiming to secure personnel and prevent turnover. Germany's fertility rate is currently rising toward the European average level in 2023, which can be attributed to the government's work-life balance policies and the participation of private companies. In terms of improving work-life balance policies in Korea, it has been proposed to change the perception of the need for fathers to participate in child care, to make parental leave compulsory for men, to guarantee employment for women after childbirth, to expand child care facilities, and to revitalize family-friendly policies in companies.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.259-272
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• 2013

This Paper document that managers' cash compensation is more sensitive to negative stock return than positive stock return. Also, this paper analyse that managers' cash compensation react symmetrically to accounting earnings and losses. Since stock returns include both unrealized gains and unrealized losses, we expect managers' cash compensation to be less sensitive to stock returns when returns contain unrealized gains(positive returns) than when returns contain unrealized losses(negative returns). But accounting earnings exclude unrealized gains and include unrealized losses, so managers' cash compensation will react symmetrically to accounting earnings and losses. Analyzing 5,815 firm-year data for 2000-2011, we find that managers' cash compensation reacts asymmetrically to stock retruns whereas managers' cash compensation reacts symmetrically to accounting performance. This finding is consistent with boards of directors seeking to mitigate ex post settling up problem that would arise of managers' cash compensation was equally sensitive to positive and negative stock return.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.205-212
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• 2016

This study attempts to empirically investigate if value strategy and momentum strategy could be improved by using past financial data such as ROE and PER in the Korean stock market. The study observes that both strategies which are refined by the portfolios consisting of companies with higher ROE/PER ratio show higher positive excessive returns than the traditional value strategy and momentum strategy. The study discusses that the excessive returns could be due to investors' behavioral biases such as conservatism, anchoring, confirmation, and herding by using convergent approach based on psychology theory. The results are not consistent with the efficient market hypothesis insisting investors' rational behavior.