Earnings Management With Restatement in Balance Sheet Items; TSE Corporation

The present research discusses earnings management of managers using restatement of assets and liabilities to know whether managers are able to gain using restatement of assets and liabilities. To do so, we selected 136 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange through systematic elimination and studied them using statistical methods such as regression. The results showed that restatement of assets and liabilities accounted for earnings management upto 95 percent, and managers gain through restatement of assets and liabilities.