Corporate Governance And Earnings Management: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria Banking Sector

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA BANKING SECTOR        ABSTRACT This study is motivated by a desire to examine earnings management and corporate governance in the banking sector. In light of the empirical review and other discussions, a number of questions arose as to whether there is relationship between earnings management and corporate governance mechanisms. Using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression technique with the aid of computer software, the empirical findings revealed among other things that there …