부채중점관리 공기업의 이익조정 및 목표부채비율에 관한 연구

초록

The comprehensive political enforcement of new administration for the Korean public enterprises seems to adversely affect entire national economy. The deteriorated firm performance of the public institutions due to the increasing debt incurred by national project seems to provide incentives for earnings management. Along with the excessive control over debt reduction, the unfair selection of priority debt control public enterprises focused on debt amount rather than the debt ratio also has negative impact on the national economy. Therefore, the fair and reasonable standard is required for selecting the priority debt control public enterprises. This research is conducted from two different aspects. First, we review the earnings management of public enterprise to obtain better management evaluation as the increasing debt incurred by performing national projects deteriorates the business performance. Second, we suggest fair standard for debt reduction, and target debt ratio for the public enterprises so that our government could select the right public enterprises for debt control. In accordance with the prior research regarding earnings management, priority debt control enterprises are expected to perform more earnings management than non-priority debt control enterprises, but this argument is not supported. Our government selected the priority debt control enterprises only focused on total debt amount. We suggest that the relationships between actual debt ratios and target debt ratios of the public enterprises or recent 5-year average debt ratios of the Korean listed companies should be taken into account for the selection of priority debt control institution. This research is in reference to earnings management, target debt ratio and priority debt control selection standard of public enterprise between 2003 and 2012. We believe this study could provide the implication for future policy direction to government, public institutions and the general public.

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