Date of Award

8-20-2019

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Philosophy (MPHIL)

Discipline

Business

Department

Computing and Decision Sciences

First Advisor

Prof. LIU Liming

Second Advisor

Prof. CHAN Koon Hung

Abstract

We examine the influence of customer’s inventory accruals on supplier’s accounting quality and earnings management practices. We consider two views of the role of customer’s inventory accruals play on their supplier and how they relate to their financial reporting. The first is the customer’s inventory accruals reflect supplier’s earnings management (i.e., intentional bias) as well as lead to difficulty in supplier’s earnings estimation (i.e., unintentional errors). The second view is based on supplier’s information advantage theory, which suggests suppliers are capable to interpret the information content of customer’s inventory accruals. In contrast to the information advantage view, we find that suppliers with higher level of customer’s inventory accruals have lower earnings quality and engage in more earnings management, evenafter controlling for their own inventory accruals level.

Keywords

inventory accruals, financial reporting, earnings quality, earnings management, supply chain

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Fok, C. K. (2019). Customer's inventory accruals and supplier's earnings quality (Master's thesis, Lingnan University, Hong Kong). Retrieved from https://commons.ln.edu.hk/otd/53/

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