To effectively manage audit risk, auditors must anticipate potential litigation and reputation consequences associated with inaccurate accounting estimates. Our paper examines whether auditors correctly anticipate these consequences. We provided 57 manager- and partner-level auditors with case...

To effectively manage audit risk, auditors must correctly predict the potential litigation and reputation consequences associated with inaccurate accounting estimates. Accurate predictions are critical because underestimation of negative consequences leads to excess legal exposure and...

Firms often issue disaggregated earnings forecasts, and prior research reveals benefits to doing so. However, we hypothesize and experimentally find that the benefits of disaggregated forecasts do not necessarily carry over to the time of actual earnings announcements. Rather, disaggregated...