EQUITY OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT OF LISTED INDUSTRIAL GOODS FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Sr No:
Page No:
63-75
Language:
English
Authors:
Isah Abdulmalik*, Audu Friday, Audu Udanwojo Attai
Received:
2025-10-23
Accepted:
2025-12-05
Published Date:
2025-12-15
Abstract:
Investors, creditors, and other stakeholders are significantly impacted by earnings
management, a technique that can skew financial results. In light of this, the study looks at how
listed industrial goods companies in Nigeria manage their earnings in relation to their equity
ownership structure. The study's specific goal is to find out how managerial equity ownership,
foreign equity ownership, institutional equity ownership, and concentrated equity ownership
affect the way listed industrial goods companies in Nigeria manage their revenues. Thirteen
(13) industrial products companies registered on the Nigerian Exchange Group as of December
31, 2023, make up the population of the study's corollational research design. The census
sampling technique was utilized, and all 13 companies served as the sample size. The
information utilized was taken from the annual reports of the Nigerian Exchange Group-listed
industrial goods companies. Eleven (11) years, from 2013 to 2023, were covered by the data.
Using STATA 13.0 software, the study's analysis method was the random effect regression
model. According to the study, institutional equity ownership significantly improves the
earnings management of Nigerian industrial goods companies, while foreign equity ownership
and concentrated equity ownership have a significant negative impact. Managerial equity
ownership has a negligible negative impact on earnings management. In order to improve the
performance of Nigerian-listed industrial products companies, the study advises the board of
directors to make sure that insider manager' shareholdings are neither excessively large nor
excessively little. By making policy statements mandating that managers and executive
directors hold more equity shares, companies should think about increasing managerial
ownership. Additionally, businesses must have a large institutional ownership percentage,
particularly in participatory institutions.
Keywords:
equity ownership structure, Absolute Discretionary Accrual, Nigeria, Industrial Goods Firms.