Beyond the Numbers: Understanding Earnings Management and Its Ethical Landscape
This course provides an overview of earnings management techniques and their ethical implications. This course covers basics like revenue recognition timing, expense manipulation, provision adjustments, income smoothing, and cost-cutting. This course also addresses more advanced methods such as financial engineering, tax planning, big bath accounting, accounting policy changes, and round-trip transactions. Throughout this course, the ethical considerations inherent in these techniques are addressed through a series of example situations.

Course Publication Date: August 07, 2024

This course is available with NO ADDITIONAL FEE if you have an active self study membership or all access membership or can be purchased for $20.00!

Author:Kelen Camehl
Course No:ACT-EARNMGMT-27004
Recommended CPE:2.00
Delivery Method:QAS Self Study
Level of Knowledge:Basic
Prerequisites:None
Advanced Preparation:None
Recommended Field of Study:Accounting
  
Learning Objectives
  • Identify different methods of revenue recognition timing used in earnings management.
  • Recognize examples of expense manipulation in financial reporting.
  • Distinguish between provision and reserve manipulation techniques.
  • Determine the impact of asset valuation adjustments on reported financial performance.
  • Differentiate between income smoothing strategies and their effects on financial statements.
  • Identify financial engineering techniques in advanced earnings management.
  • Distinguish legitimate tax planning from earnings management strategies.
  • Determine the impact of big bath accounting on financial reporting.
  • Differentiate permissible changes in accounting policies from manipulative adjustments.
  • Recognize risks associated with round-trip transactions in earnings management.

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