The recent flourish of corporate accounting discredit has had a significant influence on the way the corporate leaders and professional accountants are being viewed .The level of business ethics is under severe attack and the accounting profession under extreme inspection. It seems like every day the media is reporting new revelations of corporate dishonesty or accounting fraud. It is not surprising that a crisis of assurance currently exists between shareholders, professional accountants and enterprises. One issue that has come to the forefront of recent debate regarding unethical behavior is that of earnings management or more expressively “opportunistic” earnings management. This issue has generated a great deal of talk and argument. However, earnings management is not always alleged as wrong. Arguments supporting it have also been made. Many believe that there is a good side of earnings management and that it “can be a device to convey inside information to the market, enabling share price to better reflect the firm’s future prospects” (Scott, 2003, p.385). The accounting profession has also accepted that not all earnings management techniques are deceptive