Directors’ influence on pay-based performance
The objective of this study is to examine earnings management influence on directors’ remuneration. Taking a calculation of the empirical evidence of earnings management, firm performance and directors’ remuneration, this study is able to demonstrate that pay-performance is not influenced by earning...
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iium-703182019-07-12T08:32:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/70318/ Directors’ influence on pay-based performance Puat Nelson, Sherliza Abd Rahim, Salsabila H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences The objective of this study is to examine earnings management influence on directors’ remuneration. Taking a calculation of the empirical evidence of earnings management, firm performance and directors’ remuneration, this study is able to demonstrate that pay-performance is not influenced by earnings management. Data for this study were extracted from the annual reports of 678 non-financial public listed companies in Malaysia for the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011 giving rise to final 2021 observations. The findings highlighted that earnings management played no role in determining the directors’ remuneration. However, the findings documented a significant and positive association between the directors’ influence and the directors’ remuneration. This study contributes to the growing literature by providing evidence which demonstrate that pay-performance was not directly influenced by earnings management but by the influence of the executive directors. More importantly the study documents even under strong governance, Malaysian listed firms are influenced by the executive directors. UKM 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70318/1/nelson%20and%20abd%20rahim%202018.pdf Puat Nelson, Sherliza and Abd Rahim, Salsabila (2018) Directors’ influence on pay-based performance. Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance, 9. pp. 11-25. ISSN 2180-3838 http://ejournal.ukm.my/ajac/article/view/15488/8762 10.17576/AJAG-2018-09-02) |
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The objective of this study is to examine earnings management influence on directors’ remuneration. Taking a calculation of the empirical evidence of earnings management, firm performance and directors’ remuneration, this study is able to demonstrate that pay-performance is not influenced by earnings management. Data for this study were extracted from the annual reports of 678 non-financial public listed companies in Malaysia for the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011 giving rise to final 2021 observations. The findings highlighted that earnings management played no role in determining the directors’ remuneration. However, the findings documented a significant and positive association between the directors’ influence and the directors’ remuneration. This study contributes to the growing literature by providing evidence which demonstrate that pay-performance was not directly influenced by earnings management but by the influence of the executive directors. More importantly the study documents even under strong governance, Malaysian listed firms are influenced by the executive directors. |
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