Essays On The Quality Of Audited Financial Statements
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Essays On The Quality Of Audited Financial Statements
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Author : Ulf Mohrmann
language : en
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Release Date : 2016-02-15
Essays On The Quality Of Audited Financial Statements written by Ulf Mohrmann and has been published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Business & Economics categories.
The dissertation consists of four essays on the quality of audited financial statements. The first analysis investigates the association between several regulations of the audit market and earnings characteristics. The second essay differentiates between different drivers of audit quality after an auditor change by comparing the effects of voluntary and mandatory auditor changes. The third study analyses the different strategies of Big4 and non-Big4 auditors in dealing with Level 3 fair values. The fourth part examines banks' valuation behavior concerning Level 3 fair values.
Essays On Institutional Economics And The Quality Of Financial Reporting
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Author : John A. Hepp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Essays On Institutional Economics And The Quality Of Financial Reporting written by John A. Hepp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Essays In Financial Accounting And Auditing
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Author : Lucas Mahieux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Essays In Financial Accounting And Auditing written by Lucas Mahieux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
This thesis focuses on financial reporting. The main objective of the first chapter is to understand the role of fair value accounting, taking into account the possibility for banks to use their private information (Level 3 reporting) to compute fair values. Namely, I analyze a model of prudential regulation to shed some light on banks' incentives to use Level 3 reporting. I bring in accounting measures as the primary inputs into capital requirements set by a regulator to efficiently allocate control rights within a bank and to provide managerial discipline. My analysis of the Level 3 reporting externalities highlights an interesting tradeoff between transparency and financial stability. On the one hand, Level 3 reporting reduces the ability for a bank's stakeholders to extract information from financial statements of similar banks. On the other hand, Level 3 reporting decreases systemic risk caused by mark-to-market accounting. Further, manipulation makes Level 3 reporting less desirable, which may in turn increase systemic risk. I believe that the framework of this chapter offers other opportunities to study the real-effects of fair value accounting that have not yet been explored. The second chapter of this thesis is co-authored with Jeremy Bertomeu of the University of California San Diego and Haresh Sapra of the University of Chicago. In this chapter, we tackle the question of the optimal loan loss provisioning system for banks. In particular, we develop first a framework to study how accounting measurement and prudential regulation interact to affect a bank's incentives to originate credit. Our main result is that the accounting measurement system and bank leverage are policy tools that should be used in tandem, generating more value than systems that rely either on accounting regulation or on prudential regulation. Then, we use our results to shed some light on the current debate on the appropriate loan loss provisioning model for banks. We show that while banks engage in excessive risk-taking under an incurred loss model, an expected loss model can lead to excessive liquidations. The third chapter of this thesis moves away from financial reporting for banks to focus on the analysis of auditors' incentives to deliver high audit quality. In particular, I try to understand the impact of the provision of non-audit services (NAS) on audit firms' incentives, in order to conclude on the best way to regulate this industry. I believe that a better understanding of auditors' incentives is necessary to design better regulations. To that end, I develop a framework that provides new insights into the incentive effects of NAS on auditors. I show that it can be optimal for the investors of a client firm to let the external auditor provide NAS because of an incentive externality. Indeed, the possibility of providing NAS contingent on detecting financial misstatements increases the auditor's incentives to exert audit effort. However, despite this positive externality, the provision of NAS may decrease perceived audit quality, which may in turn render the provision of NAS by auditors undesirable. Thus, my analysis uncovers an interesting tradeoff for regulators between the positive incentive effect and the decrease in audit quality. Removing the current restriction on contingent audit fees may offset this ex post decrease in audit quality while preserving the ex ante incentives.
Three Essays On Audit Committees And Financial Reporting Quality
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Author : John Lewis Abernathy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Three Essays On Audit Committees And Financial Reporting Quality written by John Lewis Abernathy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This dissertation investigates the relationship between audit committee characteristics and financial reporting quality. The dissertation is organized into three essays that examine this topic. The first two essays examine audit committee characteristics and their association with various measures of financial reporting quality. Essay Three summarizes relevant literature regarding conservatism, a measure of financial reporting quality. In Essay One, I examine whether adding board members with accounting financial expertise to the audit committee is associated with an increase in a firm's accounting conservatism. The results of this study provide evidence that the addition of accounting expertise is positively associated with higher conservatism as measured by the Penman and Zhang (2000) C-Score measure of conservatism, but only for firms with a strong governance structure. For firms with weak governance, the addition of accounting expertise to the audit committee is associated with higher levels of conservatism as measured by the Givoly and Hayn (2000) negative accruals measure of conservatism. However, the addition of accounting financial expertise is not associated with higher levels of conservatism as measured by the Beaver and Ryan (2000) book-to market measure. Sensitivity analysis suggests that the addition of accounting financial expertise is associated with higher conditional conservatism as measured by the Basu (1997) asymmetric loss recognition measure. In Essay Two, I investigate the association between analyst earnings forecast properties and the presence of accounting financial expertise on audit committees. The results indicate that the presence of accounting financial expertise is associated with significantly higher forecast accuracy and significantly lower forecast dispersion. Additionally, I find that the non-accounting financial expertise is significantly associated with higher analyst forecast accuracy and lower forecast dispersion, but nonfinacial expertise is not. Essay Three summarizes relevant literature regarding conservatism, a measure of financial reporting quality.
Essays On Financial Reporting Quality
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Author : Yuequan Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Essays On Financial Reporting Quality written by Yuequan Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Corporation reports categories.
Because of the importance of financial reporting quality in capital market, I explore the determinants to financial reporting quality in my second essay, "Market power and accrual management". I examine whether a firm's competition status in product markets affects its financial reporting quality, measured as discretionary accrual. I argue that because firms with greater market power have a greater ability to set prices for their products, they have comparatively fewer incentives to manipulate earnings through accrual management. I use the Lerner index to measure product market power and asset-deflated absolute discretionary accruals to proxy the magnitude of accrual management. Using a large sample of firm-year observations from 1997 to 2007, I find that, as hypothesized, firms with greater market power tend to have lower levels of accrual management. The final essay, "Product market competition and audit fees", goes one-step further than the second. As noted in the second essay, product market competition affects a firm's financial reporting quality. However, financial reporting quality may not be the only factor auditors take into account when they decide what fees to charge a client. The last essay, therefore, empirically explores the inter- and intra- industry effect of product market competition on audit fees. Prior literature posits two contradictory predictions on the relation between product market competition and audit fees. On the one hand, firms in a competitive market are expected to face higher liquidity risk, distress risk, and liquidation risk, thus increasing auditors' assessments of a client's business risk. So, audit fees are expected to increase with industry competitiveness. On the other hand, it is often argued in prior literature that product market competition decreases information asymmetry and mitigates agency problems between shareholders and managers and increases the accuracy of financial reporting, thus decreasing auditors' assessments of a client's audit risk resulting in necessary audits. So auditors tend to charge lower fees on firms in a more competitive industry. The study, then, empirically tests the relation between product market competition and audit fees and finds that auditors charge higher fees on firms in a more competitive industry. It also finds that auditors charge lower fees on firms with greater market power within the same industry.
Essays Examining The Association Between Going Concern Audit Opinions Subsequent Earnings Management And Engagement Office Audit And Reporting Quality
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Author : Marcus R. Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Essays Examining The Association Between Going Concern Audit Opinions Subsequent Earnings Management And Engagement Office Audit And Reporting Quality written by Marcus R. Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This dissertation consists of two essays that examine the association between going concern audit opinions, subsequent earnings management and engagement office audit and reporting quality. Essay I (Chapter 1) examines the earnings management behavior of financially distressed firms following the receipt of a going concern opinion. The results indicate that financially distressed firms, unable to improve their financial condition through the manipulation of accounting accruals, report large magnitudes of negative discretionary and working capital accruals. As a result, these firms turn their attention to the manipulation of real operational activities. By engaging in various forms of real activity manipulation, financially distressed firms are able to reduce reported expenses, conserve cash, and most importantly, avoid bankruptcy and/or the receipt of a subsequent going concern opinion, despite being in financial distress. Essay II (Chapter 2) investigates whether audit quality and reporting accuracy is associated with engagement office propensity to issue going concern opinions. The findings from this study show clients of engagement offices with a high propensity to issue going concern audit opinions are associated with large magnitudes of income decreasing discretionary accruals, suggesting that these engagement offices require their clients to report more conservatively. The findings also show that these engagement offices' financial statement conservatism carries over to their financial reporting decision-making. The conservative reporting posture of these engagement offices leads them to issue going concern audit opinions to subsequently viable clients, leading to higher type I error rates. Overall, this dissertation contributes to the accounting literature addressing going concern audit reporting by creating two new variables that help to explain the association between the receipt of a prior going concern audit opinion and subsequent earnings management, and the association between engagement office propensity to issue going concern audit opinions and audit and reporting quality. The variables created could open a new stream of literature aimed at addressing earnings management behavior and choices following the receipt of a going concern opinion and also demonstrate that more attention should be directed to the characteristics of individual engagement offices because they are the ultimate determining factor of an audit firm's overall audit and reporting quality. Together, the studies show how important it is to analyze the effects of going concern audit reports and how they are associated with seemingly unrelated topics in accounting literature.
Accounting Essays
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Author : Thomas Heaton Spitters
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-03-31
Accounting Essays written by Thomas Heaton Spitters and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
A thorough retrospective guide to financial accounting changes related to Sarbanes - Oxley and corresponding legislation.
The Oversight Of Financial Reporting In Germany
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Author : Camilla Fiallo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Oversight Of Financial Reporting In Germany written by Camilla Fiallo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Three Essays On Audit Regulation Audit Market Structure And The Quality Of Financial Statements
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Author : Benjamin Heß
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Three Essays On Audit Regulation Audit Market Structure And The Quality Of Financial Statements written by Benjamin Heß and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Two Essays On Financial Reporting Quality
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Author : Yangxin Yu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Two Essays On Financial Reporting Quality written by Yangxin Yu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Auditing categories.