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THE IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND AUDIT QUALITY ON ACCRUAL-BASED AND REAL-BASED EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM JORDAN
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Mohammad Alhadab 
Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between executive compensation, audit quality, and accrual and real earnings management in Jordan. While prior literature focuses on examining the impact of audit quality on accrual earnings management in Jordan, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the impact of executive compensation on real earnings management activities in Jordan. Further, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the impact of audit quality on real earnings management. By examining a Jordanian sample of 445 firm-year observations over the period from 2000 to 2011, this study presents new evidence that executive compensation is positively associated with accrual earnings management, suggesting that managers engage in accrual earnings management to increase reported earnings and, therefore, increase their pay-performance compensation. Further, the results show that managers who engaged in a higher level of real earnings management (via sales-based manipulation) received a lower level of compensation, suggesting that managers in Jordan are punished for the use of real activities. In terms of audit quality, the results show no evidence that audit quality is associated with accrual and real earnings management in Jordan. This study uses the corrected model of Jones (1991) as suggested by Dechow et al. (1995) is to estimate normal accruals, while the models of Roychowdhury (2006) are used to estimate real earnings management activities.
Keywords: Executive Compensation, Audit Quality, Accrual and Real Earnings Management, Jordan
Received: 28.12.2017
Accepted: 11.02.2018
JEL Classification: M10, M41, M42, M52
How to cite this paper: Alhadab M. M. (2018). The impact of executive compensation and audit quality on accrual-based and real-based earnings management: Evidence from Jordan. Corporate Ownership & Control, 15(2-1), 209-219. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv15i2c1p7
