his study aims to investigate the impact of corporate environmental responsibility on earningsmanagement of firms in emerging countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.Quantitative research methods are used to analyze a research sample of 5,184 firm-year observations, withdata collected from Thomson Reuters, Worldscope and World Development Indicators during the period2002- 2019. Research results indicate that firms performing better in corporate environmental responsibilityare often less likely to engage in earnings management. The robustness of the results is validated byemploying a different proxy of earnings management and alternative regression techniques such as firmfixed effects and generalized method of moments. Furthermore, the study identifies and tests the underlyingchannel through which corporate environmental responsibility influences earnings management, namelyinformation asymmetry. Our results have academic and practical significance, and provide importantimplications for improving the quality of financial reporting through promoting corporate environmentalresponsibility