Chinese accounting restatements are mainly disclosed in companies' annual reports due to unique Chinese institutional background and regulatory setting. Using manually collected data of 1050 accounting restatements from 2003 to 2011, we study the association between Chinese accounting...

The high sensitivity of management compensation to accounting performance could be an important driver of financial restatement, due to strong management incentives to manipulate earnings. This paper examines whether restating firms rearrange management's annual compensation following...