Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258010 
Year of Publication: 
2020
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[Journal:] Risks [ISSN:] 2227-9091 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 2 [Article No.:] 57 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-21
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MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Earnings management is a globally used tool for long-term profitable enterprises and for the apparatus of reduction of bankruptcy risk in developed countries. This phenomenon belongs to the integral and fundamental part of their business finance. However, this has still been lax in emerging countries. The models of detections of the existence of earnings management are based on discretionary accrual. The goal of this article is to detect the existence of earnings management in emerging countries by times series analysis. This econometric investigation uses the observations of earnings before interest and taxes of 1089 Slovak enterprises and 1421 Bulgarian enterprises in financial modelling. Our findings confirm the significant existence of earnings management in both analyzed countries, based on a quantitative analysis of unit root and stationarity. The managerial activities are purposeful, which is proven by the existence of no stationarity in the time series and a clear occurrence of the unit root. In addition, the results highlight the year 2014 as a significant milestone of change in the development of earnings management in both countries, based on homogeneity analyses. These facts identify significant parallels between Slovak and Bulgarian economics and business finance.
Subjects: 
business finance
earnings management
EBIT
financial modelling
homogeneity
stationarity
time series methods
unit root
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