• Korean Business Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.19-41
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• 2005

The informativeness of accounting earnings to investors may be used as a measure of the quality of accounting information. The ownership structure is considered to be related to both of two variables, the reliability of earnings reflecting the economic performance of the enterprise and the existence of alternative information sources. Earnings manipulation may mitigate the correlation between accounting earnings and the economic performance and alternative information sources decrease the value of accounting earnings as an information. Thus ownership structure could influence the informativeness of accounting earnings. This paper classifies ownership into three categories, management or inside ownership, institutional investors and large outside blockholders, and diffuse outside ownership and examines theoretically the difference of information effectiveness under each ownership structure. The earnings manipulation hypothesis supports the assertion that the separation of ownership from control motivates earnings manipulation. And differential information hypothesis suggests that more non-accounting information of firms with institutional or concentrated outside ownership is provided. Outside blockholders have alternative information sources that make accounting manipulation ineffective. While most previous studies have examined the effect of ownership on the informativeness of earnings from earnings manipulation hypothesis, this study is motivated by both earnings manipulation hypothesis and differential information hypothesis.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.209-227
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• 1998

This study examines the relation between accruals components of earnings and stock return. Earnings are decomposed into four components: discretionary accruals, nondiscretionary accruals, nondiscretionary income and cash flow from operations. Because reported earnings in financial statement consist of cash flow from operations plus total accruals. We decompose total accruals into a discretionary accruals and a nondiscretionary accruals separately, This paper examines the incremental informational content of discretionary accruals and nondiscretionary accruals components of net income by regressing return on earnings'components in multivariate models. The empirical analysis is conducted on a sample of 1,580 firm-years comprising 158 firms during 1984-1995. Discretionary accruals are obtained by decomposing total accruals into discretionary and nondiscretionary accruals components, using a pooled variation of the Jones model(1991). These findings suggest that the discretionary accruals(measured using a variation the Jones model) is priced by the stock market. Specifically, the discretionary accruals and cash flow from operations are positively associated with the stock return, and also nondiscretionary income, discretionary accruals are positively associated with the stock return. While this result is consistent with the market prices the discretionary accruals because it captures value-relevant information. Additional test report evidence consistent with nondiscretionary accruals conveying information about the stock return.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.19-36
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• 2004

This study examines the relation between accruals components of earnings and stock return. Earnings are decomposed into four components: discretionary accruals, nondiscretionary accruals, nondiscretionary income and cash flow from operations. Because reported earnings in financial statement consist of cash flow from operations plus total accruals. We decompose total accruals into a discretionary accruals and a nondiscretionary accruals separately. This paper examines the incremental informational content of discretionary accruals and nondiscretionary accruals components of net income by regressing return on earnings' components in multivariate models. The empirical analysis is conducted on a sample of 1,580 firm-years comprising 158 firms during 1991-2003. discretionary accruals are obtained by decomposing total accruals into discretionary and nondiscretionary accruals conponents, using a pooled variation of the Jones model(1991). These findings suggest that the discretionary accruals(measured using a variation the Jones model) is priced by the stock market. Specifically, the discretionary accruals and cash flow from operations are positively associated with the stock return, and also nondiscretionary income, discretionary accruals are positively associated with the stock return. While this result is consistent with the market prices the discretionary accruals because it captures value-relevant information. Additional test report evidence consistent with nondiscretionary accruals conveying information about the stock return.

• 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 Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.877-886
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• 2009

Since 1982, the auditee have selected the auditor under market mechanism. Under the system on which the auditor have been chosen by client, there have been chances for opinion shopping, etc. To prevent those, some audit regulations have been introduced. Prior studies have documented the positive effect of these audit regulations. Those studies, however, had some limitations which they dealt with just short event period for empirical tests. This study examines the effect of Auditor Turnover Ratio on the Quality of Earnings using a sample of firms that were listed on Korea Exchange(KRX) from 1995 to 2004. The firms that change auditor frequently are expected to have low disclosure quality. The CEO with the incentives to manage or manipulate earnings could accomplish this purpose by replacing existing auditor with more friendly auditor, which could result in eventually lowering earning's quality of the firm. The result of empirical test shows that the accrual quality of firms which have high auditor turnover ratio are significantly lower than those of firms which have low ratio. This result is consistent with our hypothesis that the more frequently a firm changes auditor, the lower the quality of earning is. This evidence might give the implication to policy-making supervisor.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.105-109
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• 2017

This paper examines the effect of the analysts' earnings forecast revisions on stock price after the dividend announcement of the firms has been released. We show that the analysts' upward revisions on earnings forecasts are followed by the positive cumulative abnormal return. We also investigate the signalling effect and the confirmation effect with respect to the effect of the dividend announcement and the earnings forecast revisions on stock price. The test results show that the confirmation effect is stronger than the signalling effect. That is, the investors react only when the analysts' forecasts coincide with the preceding dividend announcement.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1353-1360
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• 2009

This study examines the effects of internal control system and Analysis of characteristics and Earning management in Vulnerable Cooperation. During research period 2005${\sim}$2007, Purpose of this study is to examines whether financial characteristics has exist or not. Second, Earning management also. As a result of analysis are as follows, First T-test and logistic regression has found explanatory with stastical significance about CURRENT, RNPS, and DEPT. Second, DA of Vulnerable Cooperation is significantly higher than Normal cooperation.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.209-242
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 무상주발행, 즉 무상증자(無償增資), 주식분할(株式分割), 그리고 주식배당(株式配當)을 실시하는 기업(企業)의 특성(特性)과 주가반응(株價反應)을 연관지어 주가반응(株價反應)의 이유를 설명하였다. 특히, 이러한 형식적 재무활동이 왜 기업내용에 관한 정보전달의 역할을 하게 되며, 장기적 기업성과의 변화로 이어지는가, 배당증감(配當增減)에 관한 직접적인 정보(情報)에 상관없이 무상주발행 발표시점에서 정보효과(情報效果)를 갖는가, 그리고 정보효과(情報效果)에 차이(差異)가 있는가를 살펴보았다. 실증분석(實證分析) 결과(結果)는 무상증자(無償增資) 및 주식분할(株式分割)은 기업의 경영성과(經營成果)가 전과 같이 탁월(卓越)하거나 또는 평균이상(平均以上)을 유지(維持)하리라는 신호(信號)를 시장에 주는 정보효과(情報效果)를 갖고 있었으며, 주식배당(株式配當)은 현금배당능력(現金配當能力)이 부족(不足)한 기업(企業)들이 실시하고 주식배당 후에도 경영성과가 저조했다. 그러나 모든 무상주 발행의 경우 배당증가의 경우가 배당감소의 경우보다 초과수익이 더 많아 정보효과(情報效果)의 차이(差異)를 발견하였고, 또한 배당증감에 관한 직접적인 정보에 상관없이 공시시점(公示時點)에서 정보효과(情報效果)를 가지고 있다는 사실도 알 수 있었다. 무상증자(無償增資)가 주식분할보다 특정기간에 더 높은 초과수익을 실현하고 있었으며, 자본잉여금(資本剩餘金)을 재원(財源)으로 한 무상증자는 이익잉여금(利益剩餘金)을 재원(財源)으로 한 경우보다 초과수익(超過收益)이 많았다. 기업특성(企業特性)에 있어서도 자본잉여금을 재원으로 한 경우가 이익잉여금의 경우보다 경영성과가 더 우수했으며 특히, 이익잉여금(利益剩餘金)의 경우 대부분이 회계년도말(會計年度末)에 실시되어 주식배당적성격(株式配當的性格)이 강하였다. 무상증자의 경우 종합주가지수수익율(綜合株價指數收益率)을 이용하여 구한 잔차가 업종별지수수익율(業種別指數收益率)을 이용하여 구한 잔차보다 크며 통계적으로 유의하였다. 이는 무상증자가 있는 업종의 수익률이 시장평균보다 높다는 것을 말하며, 무상증자(無償增資)를 실시하는 기업들은 평균보다 많은 투자기회(投資機會)를 가지고 보다 우월한 영업성과를 줄 것으로 기대되는 업종에 속하고 있다고 하겠다.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.1-20
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• 2018

This study aimed to examine earnings quality of firms selected as Global Champs project which has been promoted by the government since 2013 to support small and medium sized enterprises, for the screening year(t-1) and selected year(t). Earing quality is measured as the value of discretionary accruals estimated by Dechow et al.(1995) adjusted Jones model and Kothari et al.(2005) model, respectively. I analyze the differences of earning quality between the Global Champ firms and the paired firms selected through criteria of the similar total assets and the same industry in the screening year and the selected year. This study is motivated by the needs of measurement of the performance of the Project from the accounting transparent point of view. As the results of this study, major findings are summarized as follows. Firstly the earnings quality of the selected firms was lower than that of the paired firms. This can be explained as a result of motivation of earnings management by companies eager to meet the requirements to be selected for the Project. Secondly, in the selected year, the earnings quality was proved to improve, comparing to the screening year. This can be explained by the efforts of companies to reinforce management innovation and transparent management, which in turn led to positive effects on the earnings quality. These findings were found to be consistent in the additional analyses, where the earning quality of the reconstructed sample with only selected companies was compared for the screening year and the selected year, based on the year before the screening year(t-2).