The Examination of Real Earnings Management on the Threshold of Sensitive Earnings Amounts

Investors and other users can use the company's earnings correctly for investment decisions and forecast cash flows and future earnings when the company's earnings are based on the actual financial performance of the company and not on the management's opinion in using the accounting methods. Accounting standards allow managers to have a wide range of options in selecting different accounting methods to calculate earnings, although managers may not use all of these options to achieve the company's goals. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate real earnings management on the threshold of sensitive earnings and using the data of 148 companies as a research sample in the period between 1391 to 1398 has been done. The results showed that in companies suspected of earnings management on the verge of zero earnings, abnormal operating cash flows and abnormal discretionary costs are significantly lower than other companies and in companies suspected of earnings management on the verge of zero earnings, costs Abnormal production is significantly higher than other companies. Abnormally operating cash flows and abnormal discretionary expenses are significantly lower in companies suspected of earnings management on the expected earnings threshold.