Is earnings quality associated with corporate social responsibility?

Accounting Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 761-796

  Kim, Yongtae ^a   Park, Myung Seok ^b   Wier, Benson ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Discretionary accruals; Earnings management; Real activities manipulation; Transparency in financial reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864295341     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10209     Document Type: Article

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