The Role of Taxes in Foreign Earnings Management: Implications for Pricing of Foreign Earnings

dc.contributor.advisorGuenther, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Jingjingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T17:41:24Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T17:41:24Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstractU.S. multinational corporations are well known for shifting income to low tax foreign subsidiaries to avoid U.S. income tax. Yet little is known about how multinational corporations opportunistically use low tax foreign subsidiaries for financial reporting purpose. Understanding this question has implications for U.S. accounting regulators to set enforcement targets. Using worldwide consolidated financial statements, I examine the role of taxes for multinational corporations to manage earnings in foreign subsidiaries. I find that by managing earnings in low tax foreign countries, multinational corporations can reduce the effective tax rate on pretax accrual earnings by an average of 4.3%. To examine the implication of opportunistic foreign earnings management on investors' equity valuation, I find evidence that investors do not seem to overvalue foreign managed earnings compared to domestic managed earnings, though foreign earnings are on average valued higher than domestic earnings.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18326
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectEarnings managementen_US
dc.subjectEarnings valuationen_US
dc.subjectMultinational corporationsen_US
dc.subjectTaxen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Taxes in Foreign Earnings Management: Implications for Pricing of Foreign Earningsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Accountingen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en_US

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