Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies

The paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance and earnings quality. There are 72 companies in the UK out of FTSE 100 has been selected as the sample in the paper. In order to estimate the earnings quality, the abnormal accruals are used as the proxy to measure the earnings qua...

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Main Author: WU, YANRONG
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54440/
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description The paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance and earnings quality. There are 72 companies in the UK out of FTSE 100 has been selected as the sample in the paper. In order to estimate the earnings quality, the abnormal accruals are used as the proxy to measure the earnings quality, and earnings quality is estimated by using Modified Jones Model. From the result, the significant negative relationship between abnormal accruals and board meetings has been found, which means that the more board meetings would improve the earnings quality in companies. However, board size and board independence would not significantly affect the earnings quality from the results of this paper. In addition, there is no significant relationship between audit committee characteristics (i.e. audit committee size, audit committee independence and audit committee meetings) and earnings quality.
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spelling nottingham-544402022-08-18T15:17:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54440/ Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies WU, YANRONG The paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance and earnings quality. There are 72 companies in the UK out of FTSE 100 has been selected as the sample in the paper. In order to estimate the earnings quality, the abnormal accruals are used as the proxy to measure the earnings quality, and earnings quality is estimated by using Modified Jones Model. From the result, the significant negative relationship between abnormal accruals and board meetings has been found, which means that the more board meetings would improve the earnings quality in companies. However, board size and board independence would not significantly affect the earnings quality from the results of this paper. In addition, there is no significant relationship between audit committee characteristics (i.e. audit committee size, audit committee independence and audit committee meetings) and earnings quality. 2018-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54440/1/YANRONG%20WU%20electronic%20Dissertation.pdf WU, YANRONG (2018) Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
spellingShingle WU, YANRONG
Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title_full Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title_fullStr Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title_full_unstemmed Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title_short Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in Listed Companies: The Case of UK Companies
title_sort corporate governance and earnings quality in listed companies: the case of uk companies
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54440/