Download or read book Three Essays on Earnings Management and Executive Compensation written by Heather Katherine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chapter 2, I explore the possibility that current shareholders encourage CEOs to manage earnings around equity issuances, as artificially inflated stock prices allow shareholders to obtain external financing at lower cost. My main result establishes that CEOs in well-governed firms are more likely to have large positive discretionary accruals around equity issuances than CEOs in poorly-governed firms. The finding suggests that governance is a double-edged sword: good governance may limit misreporting when it hurts current shareholders, but it may exacerbate misreporting when current shareholders stand to benefit.