Director Compensation and the Reliability of Accounting Information

This paper studies the effect of incentive-based compensation on directors' monitoring of management. Using total accruals to measure the level of earnings management, I find that director stock option compensation is associated with higher levels of total accruals. I interpret this result to s...

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Main Author: Boumosleh, Anwar (author)
Format: article
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6288.2009.00228.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6288.2009.00228.x/epdf
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