Auditor Independence, Auditor Specialization and Earnings Management: Further Evidence from Singapore

• Main Authors: Rusmin, Rusmin, Van der Zahn, Jean-Luc Wolfgang Mitchell, Tower, Greg, Brown, Alistair
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• 主題: abnormal accruals; auditor independence; auditor specialisation; Singapore; earnings management; audit value attributes; auditing; Accounting; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/125; http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAAPE.2006.010300
• 機構: Singapore Management University

This study uses data from 298 Singapore publicly listed firms to examine the association between earnings management and two audit value attributes: auditor independence and auditor specialisation. We find firms engaging a specialist auditor had significantly lower levels of abnormal accruals than t...