Do acquirers manage earnings prior to a share for share bid?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 633-670

  Botsari, Antonia ^a   Meeks, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accruals; Earnings management; Mergers and acquisitions; Share for share bids

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349094913     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02091.x     Document Type: Article

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