• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.22-39
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• 2015

After a long, dormant period, recent attention has turned to a variety of measurement issues surrounding the concept of human capital. The traditional approach of rely entirely on measures of school attainment, while convenient, is almost certainly misleading. The availability of cognitive skills measures greatly improves on these measurements, but there remains also concern about other unmeasured factors, including noncognitive skills. This paper considers alternative approaches to assessing the role of human capital on individual earnings and on economic growth.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2014

Purpose - This study conducted empirical research on non-financial corporations listed on the stock exchange from 2001 to 2010, focusing on the effects of corporate governance on real earnings management of corporations. In particular, this study examined primarily the impact of the largest shareholder who could use earnings management to pursue his own self-interest, and foreign investors who played a checking role against the largest shareholders. The study also reviewed the relationship between corporate governance and earnings management while also considering corporate growth. Research design, data, and methodology - As for the measurements of real earnings management, abnormal operating cash flow and abnormal production cost were utilized. As for the independent variables, share ratio of the largest shareholder and affiliate person (M) and share ratio of foreign investors (FT) were leveraged. This study excluded those organizations that had changed their fiscal years, those that had not submitted an audit report, corporations under supervision, delisted corporations, corporations that had changed their business type, and so on, from the non-financial corporations out of the publicly traded corporations whose fiscal year ended in December from 2001 to 2010 in addition, KIS values were utilized for the corporate financial data in the study. To verify whether management structure and growth had an impact on real earnings management of a corporation through empirical analysis, a multiple regression analysis model was applied. Result - First, as a result of the analysis, the share ratio (M) of the largest shareholder and affiliate person was found to have a significant positive correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) and abnormal production cost (APD). When controlling the growth, the share ratio (M) of the largest shareholder and affiliate person was found to have an insignificant correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) but a significant correlation with abnormal production cost (APD). Second, foreign ownership (FT) was found to have a significant positive correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations(ACF) and abnormal production cost (APD) at the confidence level of 1 percent when not including the growth dummy. When controlling the growth, foreign ownership (FT) was found to have a significant negative correlation with abnormal cash flow from operations (ACF) and with abnormal production cost (APD). Conclusion - The results imply that the largest shareholder is closely related to earnings management through real activities regardless of corporate growth. It is also possible to determine from these results that foreign investors are related to earnings management through real activities when not considering corporate growth, but that they would reduce earnings management in the case of considering the growth. Thus, this study verified along with the existing studies that foreign investors were conducting the control function on controlling shareholders.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2021

The outbreak of the financial crisis, the lack of corporate governance practices in Iraqi companies, the high level of earnings management (EM), and weak firm performance (FP) have all encouraged the purpose of this study. This study proposes to achieve the following objectives: (I) to investigate the influence of governance mechanisms on the earnings management practices, (II) to investigate the consequence of EM on FP. The study sample includes 65 Iraqi firms listed on the Iraqi stock exchange for six years from 2012 to 2018, with 390 firm-year observations. The hypotheses were tested using panel data regression. According to the findings, Iraqi companies prefer to use real EM rather than accruals EM to avoid reporting losses. Discretionary cash flow, production costs, and cash flow from operation are examples of actual operations employed to undertake EM. Furthermore, according to the findings of this study, board meeting frequency and female onboard have a significant and negative influence on EM. Besides, the internal audit function was found not to affect EM. On the other hand, results revealed a significant and negative relationship between EM and FP. According to the study, management prefers to minimize cash and accrual expenditure during the economic downturn.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.391-397
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• 2021

This study examines the effect of independent commissioners and the Audit Committee on internal control disclosure and its implications for earnings management in the banking industry listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2016-2018. In this study, a purposive sampling technique was used, combined with two multiple regression analysis models. The final sample for this study comprised 30 companies over the three years of observation, such that there were 90 observations in total. This study indicates that independent commissioners, as measured by their composition, do not affect the disclosure of internal control. However, as measured by the number of members, the Audit Committee had a positive effect on internal control disclosures. This study also indicates that the disclosure of internal control as measured by the Internal Control Disclosure index affects reducing the negative practice of earnings management. This study proves that the Audit Committee's role is very dominant in assisting the Board of Commissioners in supervising internal control. This has implications for reducing earnings management practices. However, the Independent Commissioner's role in the Indonesian banking industry has not been optimal in carrying out the supervisory function in this study.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2019

This study examines whether auditors restrain the analysts' opportunistic behavior as reviewing the companies' interim reports. Analysts' forecasts show a walkdown pattern in which their optimism has decreased as the earnings announcement date has approached. At the beginning of the year, there is a lack of high-quality benchmark information that enables information users to judge the accuracy of analyst's earnings forecasts. Thus, early in the year, analysts are highly inspired to disseminate optimistic forecasts in order to gain manager's favor. In this study, we examine adequate benchmarks prevent analysts from disclosing optimistically biased forecasts. We conjecture that auditors' efforts might mitigate analysts' walkdown pattern. To test this hypothesis, we use data from Korea, where it is mandatory to disclose auditor's review hours. We find that the analyst forecast's walkdown decreases with the ratio as well as the number of audit hours. It implies that an auditor's effort in reviewing interim financial information has a monitoring function that reduces analysts' opportunistic optimism at the beginning of the year. We conjecture that the tendency will be more pronounced when BIG4 auditors review the interim reports. Consistent with the prediction, BIG4 auditors' interim review effort is more effective in suppressing the analysts' walkdown.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.203-222
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• 2008

This thesis examines whether accounting information-earnings and book values-has the value relevance in the KOSDAQ. The study is motivated by previous studies which have examined the value relevance of accounting information. Prior researches have focused on KSE(Korea Stock Exchange). But, prior researches have not examined the value relevance of accounting information in KOSDAQ. So, this study examined the value relevance of accounting information which is disclosed by firms on KOSDAQ and whether accounting information between firms on KOSDAQ and KSE has the discriminative value relevance, underlying the expectation that KOSDAQ firms will have higher future profitability than KSE firms. In other words, book-value multiples of KOSDAQ firms is higher than book-value multiples of KSE firms and earnings multiples of KOSDAQ firms is lower than earnings multiples of KSE firms. The value relevance of accounting information is examined by a valuation framework presented by Ohlson(1995), which expresses the stock-price as a function of both earnings and book values of equity. The results indicate that accounting information of KOSDAQ has significant explanatory power for stock price over the 2005-2007 period. KOSDAQ firm are divided by Venture firms and Small to Mid size firms. KOSDAQ Venture firms have the discriminative value relevance, compared with KSE firms. But, KOSDAQ Small to Mid size firms have not the discriminative value relevance, compared with KSE firms.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.805-817
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• 2009

최근 군가산점제도의 부활에 관련되어 군 복무의 효과에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 그 배경에서는 우리나라 남성들이 군 복무를 통해 금전적, 비금전적 손실을 입는다는 인식이 깔려 있다. 그러나 군 복무가 노동시장에 미치는 효과를 분석한 실증연구는 거의 없다. 이에 본 연구는 2007년 제10회 한국노동패널조사의 남성 임금근로자 자료를 활용하여 군 복무가 임금결정에 미치는 영향을 실증분석한다. 일반적인 민서형( Mincerian) 임금함수 추정을 통해 군복무의 임금효과를 추정한 결과, 유의적인 정(+)의 효과가 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 일반적인 인식과 달리 군 복무가 노동시장에서 긍정적인 효과를 나타내고 있다는 점을 보여준다.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.47-74
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• 2008

본 연구는 임금과 생산성의 관계에 대한 선행 연구에서 근호자의 생산성 지표로서 인사고과 정보를 활용한 Medoff and Abraham과 Flabbi and Ichino의 연구를 한국 대기업의 인사데이터(2000년, 제조업 근로자)에 적용하여 재현하였다. 임금함수의 OLS 추정과 임금 및 인사고과 분포를 활용한 다항로짓함수 추정을 통해 분석한 결과, 근로자 개인의 생산성을 통제한다고 하더라도 연공임금은 계속 나타났다. 이는 선행연구와 동일하게 연공임금을 설명함에 있어 인적자본 이론보다는 인센티브 이론이 더 적절하다는 것을 시사한다.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.29-66
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• 2006

본 연구는 우리나라 내부노동시장에서의 임금결정구조가 어떻게 변화하였는지를 살펴보기 위해 우리나라 대기업의 인사데이터(1996~2000년)를 활용 하였다. IMF 외환위기 이후 한국 대기업을 중심으로 성과급제가 광범위하게 확산되었는데, 과연 이 기업이 의도한 대로 연공임금성을 완화시키고 성과에 따른 보상을 구현했는지를 검증하였다. 임금함수 추정을 통해 성과급제 도입 전후의 임금구조와 임금결정방식을 비교분석한 결과, 실질적인 연공임금성 약화가 이루어지지 못했지만, 성과에 따른 보상은 인사고과에 따른 임금격차로 반영되었고, 성과급제 도입후 지속적으로 확대되고 있어 기업이 의도한 대로 성과에 따른 보상이라는 성과주의 인사제도의 효과가 나타났다. 그러나 이러한 효과에도 불구하고, 아직도 기업이 연공임금체계에서 완전히 탈피했다고 판단할 수 없다. 그 이유는 기업 보상전략의 기본이 되는 직급별 임금 구조의 차이가 성과주의 인사제도의 도입에도 불구하고 여전히 유효하게 작동하고 있기 때문이다.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.143-158
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• 2014

우리나라 정보보안 기업은 대체로 소유와 경영이 명확하게 분리되어 있지 않아 이사회가 원활히 제 기능을 하지 못하고 지배주주가 경영의사결정에 관여하며 이사회가 내부적인 통제 임무를 제대로 수행하지 못한다는 문제점들이 있다고 제기되었다. 본 연구의 목적은 정보보안 기업이 기업지배구조 개선의 일환으로 도입한 사외이사제도가 회계정보 투명성에 실효성이 있는지 여부를 알아보고 또한 기업경영의 전반적인 부분에서 효율적으로 운영이 되고 있는지를 경영자의 이익조정과 관련하여 실증자료를 이용하여 분석하고자 한다. 즉 구체적인 목적은 기술집약적 특성을 가진 정보보안기업을 중심으로 이사회의 사외이사비율과 사외이사의 이사회의 참석율을 대상으로 이익조정과의 관계를 파악하는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구의 <가설 1>은 이사회의 사외이사의 비율은 재량적 발생액과 부(-)의 관계에 있다. <가설 2>는 사외이사의 이사회 참석율은 재량적 발생과 부(-)의 관계에 있다. 실증분석결과 <가설 1>은 사외이사비율과 재량적 발생액의 관계는 가설과 같이 부(-)의 관계를 보이며 유의하므로, 채택되었다. 가설 2는 사외이사 참석율과 재량적 발생도 가설과 마찬가지로 회귀계수가 부(-)의 관계를 보이고 유의하므로 채택되었다.