Research on Earnings Management

Abstract

This chapter intends to contribute to the analysis and comparison of the earnings management (EM) practices through a bibliometric review of the existent literature, in order to understand the current state of EM research, as well as to identify the main determinants for these kind of practices in firms. Although there are extensive research on EM, no recent study tries to update the current state of the research over this topic. To do so, a bibliometric analysis is conducted. The study describes the evolutional research studies published in the digital library Scopus, between 2010 and 2019, and compares the results obtained in evolutionary terms. It ends up concentrating the bibliometric analysis in the Scopus database, leading to a total database of 2,377 documents. Regarding the most recent articles published, the years of 2019 and 2020 were studied, ending with a final sample of 389 articles. Research avenues are provided based on these results and more recent published articles regarding EM.