While prior literature examines the role of auditors in the pricing of initial public offerings, little is known about the effect of auditor changes on the pricing of seasoned offers. Our examination of seasoned equity offerings shows that companies switching auditors prior to the offerings...

Arguably, governance and forensic accounting metrics should be predictors of future stock returns. Do empirical tests confirm this view? This article describes the logic and analytics used to calculate a metric called the Forensic Alpha Model (FAM), which was then used to test the hypothesis...

I investigate the credit market's reaction to restatement announcements through changes in credit default swap (CDS) spreads. I document an overall positive association between CDS returns and restatement announcements. Specifically, I find that more positive CDS returns are associated with...

We investigate the association between audit partner industry specialization and future stock price crash risk. Although research on audit partners has been growing, we are not aware of any prior studies that investigate partner-level specialization and crash risk. Using a large sample of...

We investigate the effects of engagement auditor industry specialization on stock price crash risk. Although research on audit partners has been growing, we are not aware of any prior studies that investigate partner-level specialization and crash risk. Using a large sample of Chinese stocks...

This paper examines the association between abnormally long audit report lag and future stock price crash. Audit report lag is defined as the period between a company's fiscal year end and the audit report date, and is informative about audit efficiency. Although a substantial body of literature...

This paper attempts to analyse the information content of a qualified audit opinion on the pricing of an IPO. To minimise the effect of selection bias, we match the sample of IPOs with an audit opinion and without, based on their propensity scores. Based on classical underpricing, firms with...

We examine client stock market reaction to news of PCAOB sanctions imposed upon Deloitte and Touche, LLP - the first against a Big 4 auditor. The PCAOB Order against Deloitte contains three potentially value relevant pieces of information. First, it shows that Deloitte did not conduct a quality...

We examine how auditor reputation conditions the market valuation of banks' loan loss provision (LLP). The inherent uncertainty associated with and discretion permitted in estimating the LLP contributes to information asymmetry. The auditor's certification and monitoring roles influence firm...

The revelation of accounting fraud by the Olympus Corporation gave rise to shareholder allegations of audit failure against Olympus' auditors — Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC and KPMG AZSA LLC — in 2011. In this study, we investigate whether the auditors' affiliation with Olympus contributes to...