This study investigates whether auditor quality and audit committee expertise are associated with improved financial disclosure timeliness as measured by the duration of a financial statement restatement's “dark period.” The restatement dark period represents the length of time between a...

This study examines whether material corporate events that occur during the year-end closing process constrain management's and the auditor's resources and inhibit them from providing high quality financial reports. For a sample of U.S. company financial reports issued during 2000–2013, we...