Purpose – To examine whether auditor‐client relationships have an effect on the decision by an auditor to remove an audit qualification. Design/methodology/approach – The paper tracks the event history of a sample of firms from the issuance of a first time audit qualification for going...

In this paper, we examine the relation between auditor litigation risk and abnormal accruals over the 1989-2007 time period. We address potential endogeneity in prior studies by jointly modeling abnormal accruals and litigation risk in a simultaneous equation system. Our findings suggest that...

The objective of CEO compensation is to better align CEO-shareholder interests by inducing CEOs to make more optimal (albeit risky) investment decisions. However, recent research suggests that these incentives have a significant down-side(i.e., they motivate executives to manipulate reported...