Executive option exercises and financial misreporting

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 845-857

  Burns, Natasha ^a   Kedia, Simi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting restatements; Compensation; Earnings management; Executive stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849091535     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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