Using data from 2004 to 2008, we find that an audit committee is an important monitoring mechanism as audit committee independence, expertise and size are associated with reduced levels of abnormal accruals, our measure of earnings management. This study also attempts to discern when the...

We examine whether earnings management spreads from firm to firm via board connections of shared directors. A firm has a higher likelihood of restating earnings in a given year if it shares a director with another firm that restated earnings either in that same year or within the past two years....

This study examines whether changes in the amount of unrecognised deferred tax assets from carry forward losses, determined in accordance with AASB1020 ‘Accounting for Income Taxes’, reflect managers’ incentives to opportunistically manage financial statements, or communicate private...