Based on a model developed in prior studies (e.g. Ogneva et al. 2007), we first use US data to predict the likelihood that a firm has material internal control weaknesses (ICW). We then show, using this model, that firms in the pre-SOX era, in UK and in Australia with a higher predicted...

When we examine all firms in the sample we find that short-term debt is positively associated with earnings management consistent with some prior studies and the debt hypothesis. However, when we focus on high creditworthy (investment grade) firms we find a negative relation between short-term...

Prior studies suggest that auditors with short tenure are associated with lower earnings quality because of the lack of client-specific knowledge and/or low balling. In this study, we examine whether industry specialization of auditors and low balling affect the association between auditor...

By employing two alternative measures of fundamental value, we re-examine the value relevance of accounting information over time. Consistent with some recent studies (e.g. Dontoh et al. 2007), we do not find evidence on the temporal decline in R-squares of conventional value-relevance...

This study examines the effect of analysts' activities after earnings announcements on the magnitude of the post-earnings-announcement drift. Using the level of private information precision in analysts' earnings forecasts after earnings announcement derived from Barron, Kim, Lim and Stevens...