Owusu, Andrews; Zalata, Alaa Mansour; Omoteso, Kamil; … - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 175 (2022) 4, pp. 815-836
Prior research suggests that the presence of high-quality auditors (i.e. proxied by audit firm characteristics) constrains accrual-based earnings management, but it inadvertently leads to higher real activities manipulation. We investigate whether such trade-off exists between accrual-based and...