The relationship between real and accrual earning management and managers' conservatism

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between real profit management and accrual profit management with accounting conservatism. In this research, accounting conservatism has been measured using the model of Khan and Watts (2009). Real profit management has been measured using Roy Chowdhury's (2006) model integrated index. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and a posteriori in terms of methodology. The statistical population is the companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange and 130 companies have been included in the statistical sample with the purposeful sampling method. The research period is 1994-1998. Regression analysis has been used to test the hypotheses. The results show that real earnings management has an inverse relationship with accounting conservatism, but accrual earnings management has no significant relationship with accounting conservatism.