Detecting Earnings Management, 1E

This brief and timely text describes the current environment and provides practical details on specific earnings management potential. It shows students how aggressive earnings management can be detected, based on publicly available information. Throughout the text, the authors use multiple perspectives to enhance understanding of the material. Short cases in every chapter provide a "feel" for evaluating public data and analyzing earnings management potential.

Gary Giroux is Shelton Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and has been at Texas A&M for about twenty-five years. He teaches financial analysis and other financial and governmental courses in the undergraduate program. He also teaches research methods in the Ph.D. program.
Dr. Giroux has published over fifty articles, including publications in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and numerous other journals. He is the author of three earlier books, including Dollars & Scholars, Scribes & Bribes: The Story of Accounting and Financial Analysis: A User Approach. His primary research areas are governmental and financial accounting. He also is interested in accounting and business history.
He has a number of outside interests, including collecting revenue documents and stamps, reading, golf, and scuba diving. He and his wife Naomi travel regularly, in part based on international research projects and presentations.

Preface.

About the Author.

Acknowledgments. 

1. What is Earnings Management?

2. Companies in Trouble—A Historical Perspective.

3. What's in a Financial Report and What to Do with It?

4. The Balance Sheet.

5. The Income Statement, Part I—Level 1 Analysis.

6. The Income Statement, Part II—Expenses, Nonoperating Items.

7. Cash Flows and Alternative Definitions of the Bottom Line.

8. Evaluating Trends, Norms and Quarterly Data.

9. Business Combinations ad Related Issues.

10. Corporate Governance, Compensation, and Other Employee Issues.

11. Risk Management, Derivatives, and Special-Purpose Entities.

Appendix.

Glossary.

References.

Index.