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Financial Reporting Quality
- 29.1 财务报告质量和盈利质量
- 29.1.1 激进的会计方法与保守的会计方法
- 一、Conservative accounting
- 二、Aggressive accounting
- 三、对比
- 29.2 财务报告低质量的原因与应对措施(Conditions to issue low quality financial report)
- 29.2.1 财务报告低质量的原因
- 29.2.2 应对的措施
- 29.3 财务报告被操纵的迹象(Accounting warning signs)
29.1 财务报告质量和盈利质量
29.1.1 激进的会计方法与保守的会计方法
一、Conservative accounting
Tend to decrease the company’s reported earnings and financial position for the current period.
二、Aggressive accounting
Tend to increase reported earnings or improve the financial position for the current period.
- Some managers employ conservative bias during periods when earnings are above target and aggressive bias during poor periods of below-target earnings to artificially smooth earnings.
- Earnings smoothing is accomplished through adjustment of accrued basis that are based on management estimates.
三、对比
Aggressive | Conservative |
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Capitalizing current period costs | Expensing current period costs |
Longer estimates of the lives of depreciable assets | Shorter estimates of the lives of depreciable assets |
Higher estimates of salvage values | Lower estimates of salvage values |
Straight-line depreciation | Accelerated depreciation |
Delayed recognition of impairment | Early recognition of impairments |
Less accrual of reserves for bad debt | More accrual of reserves for bad debt |
Smaller valuation allowances on deferred tax assets | Larger valuation allowances on deferred tax assets |
29.2 财务报告低质量的原因与应对措施(Conditions to issue low quality financial report)
29.2.1 财务报告低质量的原因
- 动机(Motivations)
- Enhance manager’s reputation and compensation.
- Avoid violating debt covenants.
- Achieving particular benchmarks, including prior-year earnings and analyst’s forecasts, is very important.
- Equity market effect
- Building credibility with market participants and positively affecting stock price.
- Trade effect, enhancing reputation with customers and suppliers.
- 机会(Opportunities)
- The company has weak internal controls.
- The board of directors provides inadequate oversight.
- Applicable accounting standards provide a large range of acceptable accounting treatments, provide for inconsequential penalties in the case of accounting fraud, or both.
- 自我合理化(Rationalization)
29.2.2 应对的措施
- Market regulatory authorities
- Registration process for the issuance of new publicly traded securities.
- Specific disclosure and reporting requirements, including periodic financial statements and accompanying notes.
- An independent audit of financial reports.
- A statement of financial condition (or management commentary) made by management.
- A signed statement by the person responsible for the preparation of the financial reports.
- A review process for newly registered securities and periodic reviews after registration.
- Auditors
- An unqualified or “clean” audit opinion is not a guarantee that no fraud has occurred but only offers reasonable assurance that the financial reports have been “fairly reported” with respect to the applicable GAAP.
- Limitation: detecting fraud is not the objective of audits.
- Internal control
- Private Contracting
- loan agreements or investment contracts
29.3 财务报告被操纵的迹象(Accounting warning signs)
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Revenue growth out of line with comparable firms, changes in revenue recognition methods, or lack of transparency about revenue recognition.
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Decreases over time in turnover ratios (receivables, inventory, total asset).
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Bill-and-hold, barter, or related-party transactions.
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Net income not supported by operating cash flows.
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Capitalization decisions, depreciation methods, useful lives, salvage values out of line with comparable firms.
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Fourth-quarter earnings patterns not caused by seasonality.
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Frequent appearance of nonrecurring items.
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Emphasis on non-GAAP measures, minimal information and disclosure in financial reports.
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