Effect of Cultural Environment on Earnings Manipulation: A Five Asia-Pacific Country Analysis

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 23-41

  Guan, Liming ^a   Pourjalali, Hamid ^a   Sengupta, Partha ^b   Teruya, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; Cultural values; Debt equity; Earnings; Earnings management; Individualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993083311     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200500007     Document Type: Review

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