EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND CREDIT RATING IN BRAZILIAN PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES

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https://doi.org/10.51320/rmc.v22i3.1267

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Rating, Earnings Management, Risk Agencies

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Obtaining favorable ratings and the counteraction of possible insolvency situations are some of the reasons for earnings management, since agencies use accounting data to issue such notes. This study investigates the earnings management in Brazilian companies which aim to interfere with the risk rating agencies’ perceptions – S&P, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s – influencing, thus, the rating notes. The Kothari, Leone and Wasley (2005) model was used to measure the earnings management (EM), whereas to verify the proposed relation the Logit binary method for panel data was applied. Our findings have shown a statistical significance of 10% and an inverse relation between discretionary accruals and ratings, rejecting the hypothesis of a positive relation between EM and rating notes. Such findings contradict the studies of Alissa et al. (2013) e Demirtas e Cornaggia (2013). Therefore, from these facts we can infer that the earnings management interpretation carried out by analysts, the reduction of the ratings occurs as a solvency risk factor.

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Marcela Caroline Sibim, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Doutoranda em Contabilidade pelo PPGCONT/UFPR

Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças na linha de pesquisa Contabilidade Financeira pela UFPR (2017)

Bacharel em Ciências Contábeis pela UEL (2015)

Paula Pontes de Campos-Rasera, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Doutoranda em Contabilidade pelo PPGCONT/UFPR

Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças na linha de pesquisa Contabilidade Financeira pela UFPR (2019)

Bacharel em Ciências Contábeis pela PUC-SP (2016)

Romualdo Douglas Colauto, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Professor Associado IV do Departamento de Ciências Contábeis da Univwersidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Pós-Doutor em Controladoria e Contabilidade pela FEA/USP.

Doutor e Mestre em Engenharia de Produção na Área de Gestão de Negócios pela UFSC (2005).

 

Published

2021-12-20

How to Cite

Sibim, M. C., Pontes de Campos-Rasera, P., & Colauto, R. D. (2021). EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND CREDIT RATING IN BRAZILIAN PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES. Revista Mineira De Contabilidade, 22(3), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.51320/rmc.v22i3.1267

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