Erasmus University Rotterdam

Healy and Wahlen (1999) discuss industry regulations and anti-trust regulation. In the U.S. some industries (e.g. banks, insurance companies, and utility companies) have regulatory monitoring explicitly tied to accounting data. These companies have other motivations for earnings management in order to satisfy certain requirements (e.g. banks ... ................
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