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- Title
Financial Distress, the Severity of Financial Distress and Direction of Earnings Management: Evidences from Indian Economy.
- Authors
Rakshit, Debdas; Chatterjee, Chanchal; Paul, Ananya
- Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between earnings management and financial distress and considers whether this relationship varies based on the severity of financial distress and signs of discretionary accruals (a proxy for earnings management). For this purpose, multiple regression analysis has been employed on a sample of 192 financially distressed Indian firms during the period 2011–2018, counting to 1,272 firm-year observations. Discretionary accruals are estimated by the Modified Jones model and Raman and Shahrur (2008) model, while Altman's Z -score and distance-to-default model are used to detect the degree of financial distress. The findings disclose that the low distressed firms are indulged in higher earnings management than high distressed firms. Also, the low distressed firms are engaged more in income-decreasing earnings management. However, the results are not consistent across both earnings management and distress measures. The findings have significant implications for investors and creditors. They need to be aware of this fact while evaluating creditworthiness of a firm since firms with even a low degree of financial distress can indulge in earnings management to camouflage their true financial condition.
- Subjects
INDIA; EARNINGS management; DISTRESSED securities; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; INVESTORS; FINANCIAL management; BORROWING capacity
- Publication
FIIB Business Review, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 2, p192
- ISSN
2319-7145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/23197145211039351