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Earnings management
Ongaľová, Dominika ; Pelák, Jiří (advisor) ; Miková, Tereza (referee)
The thesis deals with the manipulation of earnings reporting aka earnings management. The initial focus of the thesis is on the earnings management motivations and two ways how to achieve that. Firstly, earnings can be influenced by the management decisions to carry out some transactions without any economic sense. Secondly, there are creative accounting processes to manipulate earnings in required way, what we mainly pay attention to in the thesis. The theoretical part referring to particular earnings management techniques and the quality of earnings is followed by the practical part analyzing earnings management of the most famous companies regarding accounting scandals in history using specific measures. There are model examples to demonstrate these specific quality earnings measures based on the relation between income, accruals and operating cash flow stated before analyze itself.
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Creative accounting
Lukačková, Petra ; Polák, Martin (advisor) ; Procházka, David (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the problem existing in the world-creative accounting which leads to a violation of true and fair view of accounting and provides users of financial statements misleading. The thesis is togather as much information as possible on the issue, describe the concept of creative accounting and its origin, define the major causes and techniques. Finally, in order to define the boundaries of accessible creative accounting, impacts and possible sanctions.
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Aggressive earnings management in publicly traded companies and its impact on share prices
Sysel, Vladimír ; Veselá, Jitka (advisor) ; Musílek, Petr (referee)
The goal of this diploma thesis "Aggressive earnings management in publicly traded companies and its impact on share prices" is to connect an interesting topic of earnings management, which is part of a wider group -- financial fraud, with specific impact on the capital market. This thesis includes identification and quantification of the impact on a well known case of corporate fraud -- Enron. First part of the thesis describes and discusses the topic earnings management including its definition, motivation, tests, connected risk and legislation. Second part discusses share valuation techniques -- relative and absolute methods, which will be used in the last part. Last part of the thesis, using the well known case of earnings management -- Enron, quantifies the extent of earnings management, its impact on share prices and total damages caused to investors.
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