An empirical study to detect agency problems in listed corporations: The emerging market study
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Published:2023
Issue:1, special issue
Volume:12
Page:208-217
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ISSN:2306-6784
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Container-title:Journal of Governance and Regulation
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language:en
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Short-container-title:JGR
Author:
Flayyih Hakeem Hammood1ORCID, Khiari Wided1ORCID
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to shed the light on the concepts of agency theory by measuring one of the problems that arise from it, which is represented by earnings management (EM) practices. The research problem is demonstrated by the failure of some Iraqi banks and their subsequent placement under the supervision of the Central Bank of Iraq, which was attributed, in part, to the inadequacy of the agency model in protecting stakeholders in shareholding institutions, as well as EM, pushed professional institutions to adopt the corporate governance model as a method to regulate the problem of accounting information asymmetry between the parties to the agency. We are using the Beneish M-score model and the financial analysis equations in the Beneish model for bank data for both the income statement and the financial position to do so. The sample includes 30 Iraqi banks listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2017, with the goal of inferring agency problems through EM practices. The results show that there are problems for the agency in the research sample banks throughout the research periods, and the percentages of those problems vary from one year to another. Apart from detecting agency problems, the art of financial ratios that have been used can be useful for auditors in conducting financial analyses, and thus they can be used as tools to detect fraud, given those agency problems resulting from profit manipulation are only aspects of fraud in the financial statements.
Publisher
Virtus Interpress
Subject
Strategy and Management,Public Administration,Economics and Econometrics,Finance,Business and International Management
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