As práticas de governança corporativa diminuem o gerenciamento de resultados? Evidências a partir da aversão na divulgação de prejuízos e de queda nos lucros

Abstract

The paper evaluated if the practices professed by the highest level of governance in São Paulo Stock Exchange, Brazil, reduces the earnings management. Comparing the histograms of the quarterly earnings of the companies belonging Novo Mercado with the distribution of earnings released by other companies, we conclude that the discretion for avoiding both earnings losses and decreases are more frequent to traditional companies, evidencing that the practices professed by this level of governance diminishes, but don’t avoid this discretion. We also conclude that earnings management are more often employed for avoiding losses than for avoiding earnings decreases.