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    Corporate Governance and Reliability of Financial Reporting in Central Government Agencies
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Arcas-Pellicer, María-José; Pina, Vicente; Torres, Lourdes
    The objective of this paper is to determine the effects of the corporate governance practices of central government agencies on the reliability of nancial reporting. There has been a considerable growth of these agencies across countries, and there are no studies about the relationship between the features of their corporate governance and the level of reliability of their financial reports. This paper provides evidence of systematic upward earnings management by agencies that apply the Private Sector Chart of Accounts to improve their financial performance and to compensate for the reduction of revenues during the worst years of the financial crisis. The results also show that abnormal accruals have a significant and inverse relationship with the percentage of independent directors and women on the boards, i.e., diversity improves the reliability of the financial information of these entities.