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The numbers game.

Graham Scott
- 08 Dec 2010 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 14, pp 1-1
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This article is published in Nursing Standard.The article was published on 2010-12-08. It has received 360 citations till now.

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Income inequality in today's China.

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Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting

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Beating Earnings Benchmarks and the Cost of Debt

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Ceos on the edge: earnings manipulation and stock-based incentive misalignment

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of stock-based incentives on CEO earnings manipulation behaviors and found that CEOs were more likely to manipulate firm earnings when they had more out-of-the-money options and lower stock ownership.
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Earnings Volatility, Cash Flow Volatility, and Informed Trading

TL;DR: This article examined whether earnings that are smoother or more volatile than cash flows provide or garble information and found that informed trading is attenuated in settings in which theory suggests that discretionary smoothing or volatizing of earnings is likely to be informative.
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Income inequality in today's China.

TL;DR: It is established that China’s income inequality since 2005 has reached very high levels, with the Gini coefficient in the range of 0.53–0.55, and it is argued that China's current high income inequality is significantly driven by structural factors attributable to the Chinese political system and the rural-urban divide.
Journal ArticleDOI

Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting

TL;DR: This article found that higher levels of religious adherence are associated with both a lower likelihood of financial restatement and less risk that financial statements are misrepresented because of overstated (understated) revenue/assets (expenses/liabilities).
Journal ArticleDOI

Beating Earnings Benchmarks and the Cost of Debt

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether and under what conditions beating these three earnings benchmarks reduces a firm's cost of debt and found that the benefits vary by benchmark, firm default risk, and method utilized to beat the benchmark.
Journal ArticleDOI

Ceos on the edge: earnings manipulation and stock-based incentive misalignment

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of stock-based incentives on CEO earnings manipulation behaviors and found that CEOs were more likely to manipulate firm earnings when they had more out-of-the-money options and lower stock ownership.
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