The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality

Using the reforms to audit committees mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the difference-in-difference approach, we examine the impact of changes in audit committee attributes (financial expertise, size, and independence) on firms’ audit inputs and financial reporting quality. Firms direc...

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Main Authors: KIM, Jae Bum, SEGAL, Benjamin, SEGAL, Dan, ZANG, Yoonseok
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soa_research-20162020-04-17T09:28:03Z The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality KIM, Jae Bum SEGAL, Benjamin SEGAL, Dan ZANG, Yoonseok Using the reforms to audit committees mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the difference-in-difference approach, we examine the impact of changes in audit committee attributes (financial expertise, size, and independence) on firms’ audit inputs and financial reporting quality. Firms directly affected by the reforms experienced a larger improvement in audit inputs (measured by audit fees and the appointment of an industry specialist auditor) and a larger increase in financial reporting quality (measured by restatements of financial reports) relative to firms that were already compliant. Importantly, we find that the decline in restatements is not related to the improvement in audit inputs. This suggests that larger, more independent, and more competent audit committees are better able to detect misstatements or deter opportunistic reporting by management, independent of the level of audit input quality. The results therefore provide justification for the audit committee reforms. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1017 Research Collection School Of Accountancy eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Audit committees Audit fees Industry specialist auditors Restatements Endogeneity Accounting Corporate Finance
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topic Audit committees
Audit fees
Industry specialist auditors
Restatements
Endogeneity
Accounting
Corporate Finance
spellingShingle Audit committees
Audit fees
Industry specialist auditors
Restatements
Endogeneity
Accounting
Corporate Finance
KIM, Jae Bum
SEGAL, Benjamin
SEGAL, Dan
ZANG, Yoonseok
The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
description Using the reforms to audit committees mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the difference-in-difference approach, we examine the impact of changes in audit committee attributes (financial expertise, size, and independence) on firms’ audit inputs and financial reporting quality. Firms directly affected by the reforms experienced a larger improvement in audit inputs (measured by audit fees and the appointment of an industry specialist auditor) and a larger increase in financial reporting quality (measured by restatements of financial reports) relative to firms that were already compliant. Importantly, we find that the decline in restatements is not related to the improvement in audit inputs. This suggests that larger, more independent, and more competent audit committees are better able to detect misstatements or deter opportunistic reporting by management, independent of the level of audit input quality. The results therefore provide justification for the audit committee reforms.
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author KIM, Jae Bum
SEGAL, Benjamin
SEGAL, Dan
ZANG, Yoonseok
author_facet KIM, Jae Bum
SEGAL, Benjamin
SEGAL, Dan
ZANG, Yoonseok
author_sort KIM, Jae Bum
title The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
title_short The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
title_full The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
title_fullStr The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
title_full_unstemmed The Triangular Relationship Between Audit Committee Characteristics, Audit Inputs, and Financial Reporting Quality
title_sort triangular relationship between audit committee characteristics, audit inputs, and financial reporting quality
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1017
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