Download or read book The Impact of Auditor Qualifications on Earnings Management of Companies Listed in Borsa stanbul Industrial Index written by Gökberk Can and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research aims to reveal whether independent auditor's (as the real person and the legal entity) qualifications (audit firm size, audit opinion, audit gender, audit firm specialization, audit firm rotation, geographical difference) have any effect on earnings management via discretionary accruals and real activities manipulations by using a panel data regression analyses of 162 units over 5 years (2011-2015). According to the results, independent auditor qualifications (audit firm and engagement partner) has no impact on the real activities manipulation. The results show that an independent audit by Big-4 firms has a decreasing effect on discretionary accruals. Earnings management via discretionary accruals increases when the local audit firms conduct the audit. The audit firms with diversified expertise decrease the earnings management via accruals. The results also confirm that disclaimer of opinion signals an increase in the discretionary accruals in Borsa İstanbul.

Download or read book Audit Quality Determinants and Their Effect on Earnings Management During the Global Financial Crisis written by Abdullah Mohammed Ayedh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twenty first century witnessed several accounting scandals that culminated in the collapse of many renown large organizations such as Enron and the bankruptcy filing of WorldCom. These scandals cast doubts on the quality of auditing. As part of the efforts of restoring quality of auditing and earnings reporting, several standards, guidelines, and codes have been imposed by International and Malaysian regulatory bodies. However, those regulatory authorities view audit quality as subjective, multi-dimensional, vast and a complex issue (Financial Reporting Council, 2007; International Auditing and Assurance Standard board, 2011; Canadian Public Accountability Board, 2012), which makes it difficult to define and measure. In order to untangle this multi-dimensional and complex issue, this study conducted a systematic review, maps the audit quality literature and came up with an audit quality framework (AQF). AQF is a comprehensive framework with the inclusion of the International Standard on Quality Control 1 (ISQC 1). The AQF is further enhanced by inculcating qualities from an Islamic perspective. The AQF reveals that the outcome of a quality audit should be reflected in the financial reporting quality, which is proxied by diminished earnings management practices. There is strong evidence that earnings management practices during the abnormal time (financial crisis) differed in terms of magnitude and direction (Mohd-Saleh and Ahmed, 2005; Johl et al., 2007; Iatridis and Dimitras, 2013). Hence, whether earnings management practices in the context of Malaysian listed companies really differ during the recent financial crisis needs to be tested before determining whether audit quality determinants are able to alleviate it. Therefore, this study examines earnings management practices during the recent financial crisis and makes a comparison with the pre-crisis period. In addition, this study investigates the effect of different determinants of audit quality on earnings management practices. The hypotheses of this study were developed and examined based on the related literature, both agency and big bath theories. Data were collected from literature, databases, related regulations and standards (audit quality framework), annual reports (audit quality determinants), and the Bloomberg database (earnings management components). The AQF suggests that audit quality determinants can be categorized into two major dimensions of attributes (i.e. proficiency and morality). The proficiency attributes dimension is related to the ability of the auditor to detect the misstatement, whilst the morality attributes dimension is the willingness of the auditor to report the detected misstatement. The Islamic perspective shows that the two main categories of the AQF (proficiency, morality) are not new and are referred to in the Holy Qur'ān as strength and trustworthiness. Furthermore, Islam emphasizes more on the latter. As for the empirical findings of paired-sample T-tests analysis for 1,189 firm-years, it is revealed that there is a significant decrease of positive earnings management and a significant increase in downwards earnings management during the recent global financial crisis (2009; 2008) compared to before crisis period (2006; 2005). These findings confirm that Malaysian managers apply the big bath strategy during the crisis period. However, the magnitude of earnings management of the Malaysian companies in the recent financial crisis was distinctly lower than those of prior studies (Johl et al., 2007; Iatridis and Dimitras, 2013). Considering this difference, the study tests whether audit quality determinants, as used by prior studies, similarly deterred earnings management practices in the recent crisis in Malaysia. The findings of the regression analysis for the 245 Malaysian listed companies revealed that five out of ten audit quality determinants (i.e. audit firm type, auditor industry specialist, board of directors' size, board of directors' independence, and audit committee independence) play a significant role in restricting earnings management practices. Therefore, the study shows that, by analysing the empirical findings and referring back to the AQF, audit quality determinants related to competent monitoring by expert auditors (proficiency attributes) and independent board of directors and audit committee (morality attributes) deter earnings management practices during the recent financial crisis. However, other audit quality determinants seem ineffective under these circumstances.

Download or read book Accounting based Earnings Management and Real Activities Manipulation written by Wei Yu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first essay, I examine the association between auditor industry specialization and earnings management choices. Prior research suggests that industry specialist auditors constrain accounting-based earnings management. But such actions may cause client companies to seek alternative means to manage earnings. Specifically, companies that hire industry specialist auditors may alter operating decisions to meet earnings targets, referred to as real activities manipulation. This essay investigates whether clients of industry specialist auditors that have an incentive to manage earnings are constrained from managing earnings through accruals manipulation and, therefore, are more likely to engage in real activities manipulation. Further, I examine whether operating performance declines for firms suspected of real activities manipulation. My findings indicate that clients of industry specialist auditors with incentives to manage earnings have lower absolute value of accruals relative to firms with incentives to manage earnings that do not hire industry specialist auditors. These clients of industry specialist auditors are also more likely to engage in real activities manipulation, suggesting this is a possible unintended consequence of hiring an industry specialist auditor. I also document evidence that firms suspected of real activities manipulation have lower future operating performance relative to firms not suspected of real activities manipulation.

Download or read book The Effect of Audit Firm Specialization on Earnings Management and Quality of Audit Work written by Mohamed A. Hegazy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper aims at investigating the effect of industry specialization on the audit quality and earnings quality. It examines the relation between industry specialization and earnings quality, financial reporting quality, and audit quality. The research posits that industry specialization constrains earnings management. In addition, it hypothesized a positive relationship between industry specialization and financial reporting quality. An experiment was conducted in an audit firm with international affiliation in Egypt to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that there is no significant difference between industry specialist auditors and non-specialists in constraining earnings management. In addition, findings support that financial reporting quality was significantly higher when specialists conducted the audit. The results provide empirical evidence consistent with the hypothesis that auditor with industry specialization improves audit quality. Finally, industry specialization enables auditors to realize the amendments in auditing standards better than non-specialists.

Download or read book The Effect of Audit Quality on Earnings Management written by Connie L. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the relation between economic incentives to manage earnings and discretionary accruals and the modifying effects of audit quality on this relation. We hypothesize that incentives to smooth earnings and incentives created by debt agreements motivate managers to strategically bias earnings. However, we expect that earnings manipulation is tempered by the quality of the firm's external auditor. The findings indicate that companies with non-Big Six auditors (a proxy for lower audit quality) report discretionary accruals that significantly increase income compared to companies with Big Six auditors. We also find that managers respond to debt contracting and income-smoothing incentives by strategically reporting discretionary accruals. In addition, companies with incentives to smooth earnings upwards (downwards) report significantly greater income-increasing (decreasing) discretionary accruals when they have non-Big Six auditors. However, we do not find that audit quality affects earnings management that occurs in response to high leverage.

Download or read book External Audit Quality and Ownership Structure written by Amel Kouaib and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article emphasizes the significance of researching the cross effect of using jointly external audit quality and ownership structure over managerial discretion in a largely unexplored, non-Western and emerging context. The analysis is based on a sample of 61 Tunisian firms listed and unlisted on the Tunis Stock Exchange and operating in the industrial and commercial sectors during the period 2007-2011. To provide evidence on this topic, we conduct an empirical examination. First, we examine the effect of external audit quality and ownership structure on the discretionary accruals for the whole sample. We find that only auditor reputation has a negative and significant effect on earnings management. Second, this article provides empirical evidence on the cross effect of external audit quality variables and capital concentration on earnings management. This test suggests that this combination has a negative and significant effect on earnings management in industrial firms but it has a positive and non significant effect in commercial firms. Finally, the third empirical test concerns the combined effect of external audit quality and institutional property on earnings management. We find that the cross effect of this combined relation is negatively and significantly associated with earnings management of industrial firms but it has no significant effect on the earnings management of commercial firms. As for the cross effect of the auditor seniority and the institutional property, it has a positive and a significant effect in the commercial sectors, while, it is positively and non-significantly associated with earnings management of industrial firms.

Download or read book The Effect of Auditor Changes on Earnings Opinions and Stock Prices written by Nancy Rueyhwa Mangold and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Auditor Reputation and Earnings Management written by Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the relation between auditor reputation and earnings management in banks using a sample of banks from 29 countries. In particular, we examine the implications of two aspects of auditor reputation, auditor type and auditor industry specialization, for earnings management in banks. We find that both auditor type and auditor industry specialization moderate benchmark-beating (loss-avoidance and just-meeting-or-beating prior year's earnings) behavior in banks. However, we find that once auditor type and auditor industry specialization are included in the same tests, only auditor industry specialization has a significant impact on constraining benchmark-beating behavior. In tests related to income-increasing abnormal loan loss provisions, we find in separate tests that both auditor type and auditor expertise constrain income-increasing earnings management. Again, in joint tests, only auditor industry expertise has a significant impact on constraining income-increasing earnings management.

Download or read book The Effect of Earnings Management on Auditor Litigation written by William Guy Heninger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Audit Committee Characteristics and Earnings Quality written by Allam Mohameed Hamdan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between audit committee characteristics and earnings management. Samples in the study included 50 industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange ASE. Two models were used to measure earnings quality: one which depends on earnings continuity as an indication of quality, and one which depends on the decrease of discretionary accruals of quality, using pooled data regression for the two tests (Ordinary Least Squares OLS and Binary Logit). The study found that there was an influence of some standard characteristics of the audit committee on earnings quality.

Download or read book Changing Auditors and the Effect on Earnings Auditors Opinions and Stock Prices written by Nancy Rueyhwa Mangold and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Audits to Manage Earnings written by Benjamin Labrie Luippold and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Auditor Choice Earnings Management and Performance of Chinese Listed Family Firms written by Shenghua Shi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Factors Influencing Earnings Management and Implications for the Cost of Equity Capital written by Endri Endri and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to analyse the CGPI, audit committee, and company size on earnings management and their implications for the cost of equity capital. The research method used is panel data regression analysis, with a purposive sampling method obtained a sample of eight companies that consistently followed the Corporate Governance Perception Index (CGPI) program respectively from 2012-2016 and listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The results of the research showed that in the first model partially CGPI, and the audit committee did not affect earnings management. In contrast, the size of the firm had a significant positive effect on earnings management. Furthermore, in the second model, CGPI and earnings management partially had a significant positive effect on the cost of equity capital. The audit committee did not affect the cost of equity capital, and the size of the company had a significant negative effect on the cost of equity capital. Earnings management is still quite high, and the existence of CGPI and audit committees is still less effective to oversee the actions of the earnings management. Therefore, investors need to anticipate the accrual information which is presented in financial statements because of the higher the accrual level, then the higher the cost of equity capital.

Download or read book Evidence on the Relation between Audit and Earnings Quality Do Clients of Higher Quality Auditors Provide Better Financial Reporting written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: This paper studies the relation between audit and earnings quality. It examines whether firms audited by a Big 4 member engage in higher earnings management activities as proxied by the magnitude of discretionary and absolute accruals, as well as an income smoothing measure. The author predicts that large auditors have higher competencies and incentives to deliver a higher quality audit. Therefore, their clients are expected to reveal less sophisticated earnings management and thus higher earnings quality. The results do not support this relation. Since standardsetters have been concerned about managers’ use of discretion to manage earnings in their financial reports, an increasing amount of empirical research was conducted to address this issue, additionally to regulation. While independent auditors (aim to) assure that these statements are in accordance with legal compliance, the actual audit quality can be grasped as the contingency that the auditor exposes and discloses an anomaly in their clients’ financial reports. Whereas numerous audit scandals threaten the trustworthiness of well-known large auditors, there is various research revealing that Big N audited firms are supposed to disclose financial reports of higher quality. Supplementing misguiding accrual accounting practices in this regard, this study also addresses another proxy for earnings management: income smoothing. Burgstahler and Dichev (1997) explain corporate income smoothing with the fact that managers avoid revealing earning decreases and losses to diminish costs arising from transactions with stakeholders. Similarly, Degeorge, Patel and Zeckhauser (1999) show that managers smooth earnings to meet analysts’ forecasts. On the other hand there are various contrary studies. DeFond and Jimbalvo (1993) found that auditor-client disagreements resulting from earnings management, are more present in Big 4 audited firms. They explain this with the properties of the “common” Big 4 clients. For the reason of the ambiguous results, it is interesting to study the effects and compare them with prior evidence to answer the question whether Big 4 auditors deliver “higher” quality in terms of a “better” financial reporting. The terms are operationalized using a dis-cretionary accruals and income smoothing measure and analyzed for (non-)Big 4 audited UK-firms in the period 2005-2011.

Download or read book Earnings Management and Auditor Quality written by Savita Sahay and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the relationship between a firm's demand for different quality auditors and opportunities for earnings management.In our model, the firm simultaneously chooses the bias it introduces into its pre-audited earnings and the quality of its auditor. We show that firms that choose a high level of bias also choose a low-quality auditor, even though the market-maker makes a correction for the level of residual bias in audited reports. Firms that choose a low level of bias choose a high-quality auditor. We also study the effect of changes in the regulatory environment on the market equilibrium. Our analysis shows that stricter regulation leads to more firms choosing low-quality auditors, thus it is not in the interest of high quality auditors to support such measures.

Download or read book Auditors Reactions to and Companies Control of Classification Shifting written by Yinghong Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Administration/Accounting