Are Accruals during Initial Public Offerings Opportunistic?

被引：47
作者：
Siew Hong Teoh
T. J. Wong
Gita R. Rao
机构：
[1] University of Michigan Business School,
[2] Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,undefined
[3] Colonial Management Associates,undefined
来源：
Review of Accounting Studies | 1998年 / 3卷 / 1-2期
关键词：
Stock Return; Earning Management; Initial Public Offering; Initial Public; Prior Performance;
D O I：
10.1023/A:1009688619882
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摘要：
We find evidence that initial public offering (IPO) firms, on average, have high positive issue-year earnings and abnormal accruals, followed by poor long-run earnings and negative abnormal accruals. The IPO-year abnormal, and not expected, accruals explain the cross-sectional variation in post-issue earnings and stock returns. The results are robust with respect to alternative abnormal accruals and earnings performance measures. IPO firms adopt more income-increasing depreciation policies when they deviate from similar prior performance same industry non-issuers, and they provide significantly less for uncollectible accounts receivable than their matched non-issuers. The results taken together suggest opportunistic earnings management partially explains the new issues anomaly.
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页码：175 / 208
页数：33
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