"This book discusses the accounting policies firms use in different opportunistic circumstances in order to manage earnings, and to understand the corporate governance practices in different countries, and its relationship to firms' performance, and other dimensions of companies"--.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Editorial Advisory Board
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Chapter 1: Research on Earnings Management
• Chapter 2: Institutional Investors' Representativeness and Earnings Management
• Chapter 3: Owner Managers, Family Business, and Earnings Management Preceding Management Buyouts
• Chapter 4: Earnings Management and Stock Liquidity
• Chapter 5: Free Cash Flow and Earnings Management
• Chapter 6: Bi-Level Programming for Earning Management in Imprecise and Random Environments
• Chapter 7: Research on Corporate Governance
• Chapter 8: Corporate Governance in Portugal
• Chapter 9: The Social Responsibility of the Firm
• Chapter 10: How Different Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Impact Earnings Management
• Chapter 11: Corporate Governance and Company Performance
• Chapter 12: Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Firm Performance in a Young Stock Exchange
• Chapter 13: Investigating the Relationship of Corporate Cash Holdings, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance in Malaysia
• Chapter 14: Accounting Conservatism and Corporate Governance: Firm-Level Evidence From Turkey
• Chapter 15: Why Malaysian Companies Are Involved in Related Party Transactions (RPT) in the Context of Corporate Governance (CG)
• Chapter 16: Analysis of Investment Decision Making in Private Hospitals
• Chapter 17: Executive Women and Firm Economic Value
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index