Does corporate governance mechanism deter earnings management and enhance readability of annual reports?

• Dong Zheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Qingdao University Business College, Qingdao, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

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• Rajib Ali,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Business Administration, Hands Institute of Development Studies, Karachi, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9830-953X

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• Zhao Feifei ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: zhaofeifei2020@126.com

  Affiliation Shandong Youth University of Political Science, School of Economics and Management, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Muhammad Shaique

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan

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