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Earnings Management Using Asset Sales: An International Study of Countries Allowing Noncurrent Asset Revaluation
Authors:Ervin L. Black,Keith F. Sellers,&   Tracy S. Manly
Affiliation:University of Arkansas
Abstract:Bartov (1993) demonstrates that US firms time asset sales to smooth income and affect debt/equity relationships. This study examines earnings management behavior through asset sales in countries that allow asset revaluation: Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). Earnings management behavior differs across these two country groups when their accounting rules differed prior to 1993, but is similar during the 1993–95 period when the UK implemented FRS 3 . The results also find that revaluer companies do not use asset sales to smooth income in ANZ nor in the UK after FRS 3 was implemented in 1993. UK revaluers (prior to FRS 3 ) and both countries' non-revaluers sell assets consistent with income smoothing.
Keywords:asset revaluation    earnings management    noncurrent assets sales    international    accounting standards
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