Influencing corporate governance structures toward earnings management around seasoned equity offerings

Abstract

This paper examines influencing corporate governance structures toward earnings management around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). Our results show influencing board size toward earnings management around SEOs. This result is consistent with Jensen's (1993) view that smaller boards provide more of a controlling function than do larger boards. Our paper also examines whether pre-issue discretionary current accruals predict post-issue earnings performance. We find evidence suggesting that offering firms borrow future income to manage earnings pre-issue years and consequently earnings decrease in post-issue year 2. The information content of pre-issue discretionary current ac*ul. is reflected in one-year buy and hold abnormal returns for the rights offering firms. Data is selected using purposive sampling. The analysis units are 42 companies registered on the Jakarta Stock Exchange in 2002-2004 (all sample are 126). The data collection is performed using archival. The statistic method used to test the hypotheses one and two are multiple regression."