The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah

The current study seeks to answer the puzzle as to why firms issuing equity produce poor returns to investors in the long run by exploring whether the post issue performance is being influenced by the potential opportunities of earnings management during the period prior to public listing. Using a s...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Rashidah, Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Accountancy 2005
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11690/
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spelling uitm-116902016-09-22T06:11:47Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11690/ The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah Abdul Rahman, Rashidah Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila Performance standards Malaysia Investment, capital formation, speculation The current study seeks to answer the puzzle as to why firms issuing equity produce poor returns to investors in the long run by exploring whether the post issue performance is being influenced by the potential opportunities of earnings management during the period prior to public listing. Using a sample of 187 IPO firms, results in the study shows that firms that go public over the period 1989-1998 obtained significant negative share return relative to their control firms in the long run. Further analysis provides evidence that managers of Malaysian IPO firms manage their earnings prior to public listing. However, no significant relation is observed between prior earnings management and post issue long run performance. The result is robust with respect to IPO firms with either high or low level of earnings management. Thus, there is no evidence to suggest that the pre offering earnings management is able to predict the negative share return performance post issue. The decline in the post offering share price may be the result of price correction by investors on their beliefs of future earnings based on unfavourable earnings revealed over time by media, analysts reports and subsequent financial statements after listing. Faculty of Accountancy 2005 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11690/1/AJ_RASHIDAH%20ABDUL%20RAHMAN%20NARJ%2005%201.pdf Abdul Rahman, Rashidah and Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila (2005) The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah. National Accounting Research Journal, 3 (1). pp. 91-110. ISSN 1675-753X
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topic Performance standards
Malaysia
Investment, capital formation, speculation
spellingShingle Performance standards
Malaysia
Investment, capital formation, speculation
Abdul Rahman, Rashidah
Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila
The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
description The current study seeks to answer the puzzle as to why firms issuing equity produce poor returns to investors in the long run by exploring whether the post issue performance is being influenced by the potential opportunities of earnings management during the period prior to public listing. Using a sample of 187 IPO firms, results in the study shows that firms that go public over the period 1989-1998 obtained significant negative share return relative to their control firms in the long run. Further analysis provides evidence that managers of Malaysian IPO firms manage their earnings prior to public listing. However, no significant relation is observed between prior earnings management and post issue long run performance. The result is robust with respect to IPO firms with either high or low level of earnings management. Thus, there is no evidence to suggest that the pre offering earnings management is able to predict the negative share return performance post issue. The decline in the post offering share price may be the result of price correction by investors on their beliefs of future earnings based on unfavourable earnings revealed over time by media, analysts reports and subsequent financial statements after listing.
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author Abdul Rahman, Rashidah
Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila
author_facet Abdul Rahman, Rashidah
Wan Abdullah, Wan Razazila
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title The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
title_short The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
title_full The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
title_fullStr The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
title_full_unstemmed The new issue puzzle in Malaysia : performance and earnings management / Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Wan Razazila Wan Abdullah
title_sort new issue puzzle in malaysia : performance and earnings management / rashidah abdul rahman and wan razazila wan abdullah
publisher Faculty of Accountancy
publishDate 2005
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11690/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11690/1/AJ_RASHIDAH%20ABDUL%20RAHMAN%20NARJ%2005%201.pdf
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