RESULT MANAGEMENT AND IMPAIRMENT IN BRAZILIAN OPEN CAPITAL COMPANIES
Results Management; Impairment; Gain Management.
IAS 36 adopted in Brazil through CPC 01 (R1) provides a practical scenario of interpretations and judgments for the financial statement makers. In this context, this research aims to investigate the association between earnings management and the recognition of impairment in publicly traded Brazilian companies. To achieve this objective, a quantitative survey with 86 publicly traded Brazilian companies was used, using discretionary accruals as a proxy for earnings management, where two models were used: Jones Modified (1995) and the model of Pae (2005), Then, regressions were estimated with unbalanced panel data with fixed effect and robust standard errors for heteroskedasticity. The results showed that there is evidence that earnings management is positively associated with the recognition of impairment in publicly traded Brazilian companies.