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Management Science Letters

ISSN 1923-9343 (Online) - ISSN 1923-9335 (Print)
Quarterly Publication
Volume 9 Issue 11 pp. 1723-1740 , 2019

Female directorship and real earnings management in Bangladesh: Towards an analytical assessment Pages 1723-1740 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Nitai Chandra Debnath, B.C.M. Patnaik, Ipseeta Satpathy

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2019.6.018

Keywords: Real earnings management, Female director, Corporate governance

Abstract: We analyze the association between female directorship on the board and real earnings management in context of an emerging economy, in Bangladesh. To accomplish the task, we utilize a sample of 2193 firm-year observations listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange throughout the period 2000-2017. Our exploration indicates that the presence of female directors, the proportion of female directors on the board, as well as the presence of independent female director; all of these forms are positively associated with real earnings management. Therefore firms, with female director(s), tend to be in-volved in higher levels of earnings management through lower price discount, unfavorable credit facility and lower scales of production. This study also underscores that firms with female direc-tor(s) are more likely to abide by defensive financial reporting policies and they lean towards employing more income-decreasing earnings. On the other hand, their counterparts in firms with a less representation from female on the board are much less likely to engage in similar practices. So, the persistence of female directors may resolve the problem of income-increasing real earnings man-agement in a significant manner. Additionally, we provide evidence that corporate governance plays a beneficial role in limiting real earnings management especially when the board appoints female director(s).

How to cite this paper
Debnath, N., Patnaik, B & Satpathy, I. (2019). Female directorship and real earnings management in Bangladesh: Towards an analytical assessment.Management Science Letters , 9(11), 1723-1740.

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