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The Effect of the National Pension Service’ Activism on Earning Management after Adoption of the Korea Stewardship Code

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2022, 27(1), pp.183-191
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2022.27.01.183
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : November 26, 2021
  • Accepted : December 27, 2021
  • Published : January 28, 2022

KWON YEKYUNG 1

1동서대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Korea Stewardship Code ‘Principles on the Fiduciary Responsibilities of Institutional Investors’ was introduced in 2016 and the National Pension Service adopted it in 2018. the National Pension Service casted ‘dessent’ vote on the agenda which is able to reduce the ownership interest of shareholder in general meeting. This paper examines whether ‘dissent’ voting affected on the ownership interest of shareholder or not. The ‘dissent’ vote on the agenda are related to revision artical of corperation, appointment or compensation of director and auditor, approval of financial statements ect. The proxies of earnings management is discretionary accruals calculated by modified Jones model. The control variablies are size of assets, liabilities per assets, returns on assets. The results of this study are as followings. First, the ‘dissent’ voting on the agenda are related to revision artical of corperation, M&A, approval of financial statements ect. are not significant because their sample size is too small, Second, the ‘dissent’ voting on appointment of director and auditor affected on reduction of discretionary accruals. So the National Pension Service activism shall affect on increasing the ownership interest of shareholder. Third, the ‘dissent’ voting on compensation of director and auditor is not affected on reduction of discretionary accruals. This results show that ‘unconditional dissent voting’ on the agenda in general meeting is not to reduce the ownership interest of shareholder.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.