4. CONCLUSIONS
The phenomenon of earnings management is not a new problem; even so its popularity
continues to interest investors, regulators, academic researchers and financial analysts. Prior
studies (Chtourou et al., 2001 and Sun et al., 2014) confirmed that earnings management was
influenced by corporate governance mechanisms. Nevertheless, these researches results are
mixed and there is inconsistency, and it is not easy to illustrate substantive conclusions. For
that reason, this situation necessitates synthesis assessment of pertinent empirical researches
because of the feeble validity and complexity in finding a general conclusion.
Our study exposed a lot of researches on earnings management and subjected 58 articles to
meta-analysis. The large number of studies was eliminated because of the utilization of