Abstract

This study investigates acquiring firms’ earnings management (EM) strategies around mergers and acquisition (MA firms that use 100% cash payments or mixed cash and stock payments also manage their earnings during the years around acquisition. REM does not act mainly as a substitute for AM, we show that there exist some complementary effects between REM and AM. Finally, the results suggest that the pre-acquisition EM has (positive) negatively effect on the (non-)repetitive acquirer’s post-acquisition performance.

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