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Performance Measure Manipulation *
Author(s) -
DEMSKI JOEL S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
contemporary accounting research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.769
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1911-3846
pISSN - 0823-9150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1998.tb00560.x
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , variety (cybernetics) , representation (politics) , smoothing , revelation , computer science , economics , mathematical economics , econometrics , microeconomics , artificial intelligence , political science , data mining , art , law , politics , computer vision , literature
A two‐period model in which communication restrictions preclude the usual revelation representation is analyzed, and the communication policies take on the appearance of “income smoothing.” The driving force is the information content of the “smoothed” or manipulated series, relative to its counterpart were manipulation not possible. Various possibilities arise, depending on the underlying stochastic structure: performance measure manipulation might be socially efficient, or not; and when it is best to invite and motivate this manipulation, the optimal policy itself can take on a variety of forms.