Gotti, Giorgio; Mastrolia, Stacy - In: The International Journal of Accounting 47 (2012) 1, pp. 44-71
We test for differences in financial reporting quality between companies that are required to file periodically with the SEC and those that are exempted from filing reports with the SEC under Rule 12g3-2(b). We examine three earnings quality measures: conservatism, abnormal accruals, and the...