The purpose of this study is to investigate into the discretionary accruals of the client companies of sanctioned auditors before sanction enforcements and changes thereafter. We find that signed discretionary accruals of the sanctioned auditors' client companies are significantly more favorable...

The purpose of this study is to investigate into the appropriateness and effectiveness of CPA sanction system in Taiwan. We hypothesize that (1) if sanctioned auditors show generally lower audit quality, the sanction system is considered appropriate; and (2) if audit quality is improved after the...

It is instrumental for regulators and policy makers to know the impact of individual sanctions on improving audit quality of the entire firm because many countries in the world enforce disciplinary actions against individual auditors. This paper examines the improvement on audit quality of the...

Although prior studies indicate that compliance with Section 404 of SOX, which requires both high-effort management disclosure and internal control audit, is costly, no consistent conclusion can be drawn from prior research that Section 404 can improve the disclosure quality of internal control...

Understanding the factors affecting executive turnover is particularly important, because it sheds light on to what extent such turnovers serves as an effective corporate monitoring and governance tool. Using hand-collected data to control firm-specific restatement characteristics, we examine...