We examine the use of pension expense as an earnings management tool by examining each of the individual components that make up pension expense. Given the complexity and numerous required assumptions and estimations needed to arrive at pension expense, and the difficulty in verifying these items, pensions are a logical area in which one would expect to find earnings management.
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