Spring-loading future performance when no one is looking? Earnings and cash flow management around acquisitions
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Keywords
Earnings management; Cash flow management; Merger and acquisition; Accruals;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
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