Venture capital and earnings management in IPOs
We investigate earnings management (EM) in IPOs and the role of private equity/venture capital (PEVC) in hampering such practice. We show that when analyzing EM, PEVC and non-PEVC-sponsored firms should be treated as different samples: if one splits the sample, R-squared increases drastically for bo...
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Published in | Brazilian business review Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 30 - 64 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English Portuguese |
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FUCAPE Business School
30.12.2013
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Edition | English ed. |
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Summary: | We investigate earnings management (EM) in IPOs and the role of private equity/venture capital (PEVC) in hampering such practice. We show that when analyzing EM, PEVC and non-PEVC-sponsored firms should be treated as different samples: if one splits the sample, R-squared increases drastically for both subsamples. For PEVC-sponsored IPOs EM is marginal, mostly related to firms' characteristics and little related to the phases of the IPOs. Differently, for non-PEVC-sponsored IPOs EM is significant, mostly related to the phases of the IPO and little related to firms' characteristics. Finally, the reputation of the auditor is important only for PEVC-sponsored IPOs, suggesting that the choice of auditor is more meaningful for PEVC-sponsored firm, i.e, the choice of reputed auditor represents a compromise not to manage earnings. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] |
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ISSN: | 1808-2386 1808-2386 |
DOI: | 10.15728/bbr.2013.10.4.2 |