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Is earnings management good or bad? Who (or which part of corporate governance mechanisms) is responsible to constrain earnings management? To what extent can the auditor constrain earnings management? Propose some methods for the auditors to detect and constrain earnings management. Does market react to firm's earnings management behavior?

In order to discuss earnings management and what its affects are on business and whether or not it's a good thing, one must first understand what earnings management really is. Earnings management is often referred to as creative accounting or income smoothing. By definition, earnings management is "strategies used by the management of a company to deliberately manipulate the company's earnings so that the figures match a pre-determined target" (Investopedia.com). One of the main reasons that managers or companies manage their earnings is to meet a pre-specified target, which is often set by an analyst. Companies find it important to make......

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