Evaluate the following statements from an ethical perspective:“Earnings management in a narrow sense is the behavior of management to play with the discretionary accrual component to determine high or low earnings.”“Earnings are potentially managed, because financial accounting standards still provide alternative methods.”

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Q: which manner the manager behave when choosing a particular accounting method to increase the…

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