PSAK 69 Agriculture regulates the accounting treatment of agricultural activities in Indonesia. The measurement of biological assets is the most important part of the arrangement of PSAK 69. PSAK 69 deals with biological assets measured at fair value less costs to sell at the beginning and end of the reporting period. Characteristics of growing biological assets will have an impact on the growth in fair value of assets, so there will be differences in fair value at the beginning and end of the financial reporting period. The difference in fair value of biological assets, whether realized or not, is recognized as gain in the current period. This will have an impact on the quality of the company's earnings. This study aims to examine differences in earnings quality before and after the implementation of PSAK 69 in agricultural sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The research was conducted on 14 agricultural companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2016-2019 observation period. Earnings quality is measured by the earnings response coefficient. Earnings response coefficients are estimated using the firm specific coefficient model (FSCM) and pooled cross-sectional regression model (CSRM) methods. This study measures the quality of earnings before and after the application of PSAK 69. The quality of earnings before and after the application of PSAK 69 is tested by a paired two-sample t-test. The results of this study found no difference in earnings quality before and after the application of PSAK 69.

This paper presents a study to find the relationship between earnings response coefficient and earnings management on some selected firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The study uses Johns’s model to investigate the behavior of earnings management [Jones, J. J. (1991). Earnings management during import relief investigations. Journal of accounting research, 29(2), 193-228]. In addition, the proposed study uses Ohlson’s model [Ohlson, J. A. (1995). Earnings, book values, and dividends in equity valuation. Contemporary accounting research, 11(2), 661-687] to estimate earnings response coefficient. The study gathers the necessary information from 250 firms from TSE market over the period 2006-2012. The result of our survey indicates that there was a negative and meaningful relationship between earnings response coefficient and earnings management.