Abstract
The study spotlight and investigate the relationship between institutional investors and earning management. We use institutional investor’s shareholding as independent variable, firm size and leverage as control variables and earning management as dependent variable. We collected data of 100 manufacturing firms listed on Pakistan stock exchange, through random sampling techniques for the period 2010- 2016. We predicted final results on the bases of Correlation and random effect model. The results demonstrate that institutional investors and firm size have positive significant effect on earning management of manufacturing sector firms in Pakistan. However leverage showing significant negative relationship with the earning management in these firms. This study will help the decision makers and top management of the manufacturing sector firms

Alam Rehman, Yasir Khan, Mukharif Shah, Naveed. (2017) An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Institutional Investors and Earning Management , Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 3.
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