Financial Reporting, Auditing, Analyst Scrutiny, and Investment Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Chan ◽  
Nanqin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Strategic Interactions ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Audit Failure ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Ante

This paper presents an economic framework to study strategic interactions along the analyst-auditor-owner disciplinary chain, in which the auditor examines the financial reports prepared by the owner, and the analyst uncovers financial misreporting as well as audit failure. We find that although analyst scrutiny ex post detects misreporting, it ex ante aggravates the owner's misreporting behavior and further impairs financial statement reliability if the legal penalties for the auditor and the owner are small. We also show how the effects of a regulation depend on its target's disciplinarian(s). Specifically, (i) although enhancing the auditor's legal liability always increases audit quality and financial statement reliability, it decreases investment efficiency if and only if the analyst is highly independent; and (ii) increasing the owner's misreporting penalty decreases investment efficiency if and only if either of (but not both) the regulations on the auditor and the analyst is strict.

The Effects of Audit Quality Disclosure on Audit Effort and Investment Efficiency

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Chen ◽  
Xu Jiang ◽  
Yun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Financial Reporting Quality ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Audit Failure ◽  
Quality Disclosure

ABSTRACT We develop a model to evaluate the costs and benefits of disclosing information about audit quality. Specifically, we examine whether audit quality disclosure affects auditors' effort and investors' investment efficiency. In our setting, an auditor exerts unobservable effort to influence audit quality and is motivated by liability in the event of audit failure. The usefulness of audited financial reports for investors depends on both the quality of the underlying financial reporting (e.g., as embodied by GAAP) and the quality of auditors' reports (i.e., the likelihood with which audit evidence uncovers managerial misreporting). We show that audit quality disclosure increases auditors' effort incentives if and only if the underlying financial reporting quality is relatively weak. We also show that such disclosure can actually reduce investment efficiency. Our analyses contribute to the debate about policies aimed at improving audit transparency.

Financial Reporting and Auditing Under Alternative Damage Apportionment Rules

1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Hillegeist
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Strategic Interactions ◽  
Liability Rule ◽  
Securities Litigation ◽  
Audit Failure ◽  
Joint And Several Liability ◽  
Proportionate Liability ◽  
Quality Choice ◽  
Quality Decision

This article analyzes the impacts that three alternative damage apportionment rules have on an owner's financial-reporting decision, an auditor's audit-quality choice, and investors' pricing decisions within the context of a perfectly competitive securities market and owner solvency constraints. The strategic interactions between the players' strategies are analyzed within a setting where payoffs are endogenously determined and vary with the damage apportionment rule. These comparisons speak to potential changes resulting from the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 which replaced joint-and-several liability with a proportionate liability rule. The main finding is that the audit failure rate can decrease when there is a switch from a joint-and-several to a proportional liability rule despite the fact that audit quality has also declined. This result occurs when there are strategic interactions between the owner's reporting strategy and the auditor's quality decision.

Financial Reporting Discretion, Managerial Myopia, and Investment Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Jiang ◽  
Baohua Xin
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Managerial Myopia

We explicitly model financial reporting discretion and earnings management in an investment setting where managers have incentives to behave myopically. We show that, when managers are sufficiently but not excessively myopic, granting them some discretion over the mandatory financial reports can lead to better investment decisions. This finding contrasts with the conventional argument that financial reporting discretion facilitates earnings management and exacerbates managerial myopia, leading to inefficient investments. Costly earnings management, while offering managers some ex post protection against bad luck by decreasing the incidence of low financial reports, reduces the expected net benefit of high financial reports ex-ante. Consequently, managers with negative private information find it too costly to mimic those with positive private information, facilitating separation of managers through efficient investment. Thus, curbing managerial myopia by removing or overly restricting earnings management may have the unintended consequence of impairing investment efficiency.

Effect Technology Information On Quality Financial Statement With Internal Control As Moderating Variable

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Aris Eddy Sarwono ◽  
Asih Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Control System ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Internal Control System

The problem with the low quality of financial reports in local governments is the reason this research was conducted. This research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the use of information technology on the quality of financial reports by considering the internal control system (SPI) factor. The location of this research is in the Karisidenan Surakarta area which includes 6 districts and 1 city. The population of this research is all state civil servants (ASN) in local governments who work in accounting. The sampling technique was using purposive sampling method. The results showed that the use of information technology had a positive effect on the quality of financial reporting in local governments, while the internal control system moderated the effect of the use of information technology on the quality of financial reporting in local governments.

Financial Reporting and Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Entrepreneurial Finance ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Equity Crowdfunding ◽  
Macroeconomic Uncertainty ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Insight Into

I study the role of accounting and financial reporting in entrepreneurial finance by examining whether financial statement disclosure increases capital raised through equity crowdfunding. On average, I find a positive association between financial reporting and capital raised, suggesting that accounting reduces information asymmetry with potential investors. Additionally, the importance of financial reporting in equity crowdfunding varies predictably in the cross-section. Specifically, financial reporting is associated with greater capital raised when the firm has longer historical operations, during periods of higher macroeconomic uncertainty, and when complemented by detailed shareholder agreements. Finally, using a mediation analysis, I find evidence that financial reporting is indirectly associated with better ex post performance by increasing the likelihood of raising capital. These results provide insight into the role of financial reporting in entrepreneurial finance and inform the ongoing debate over regulation and disclosure in the equity crowdfunding market. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, accounting.

Financial Statement Analysis Under IFRS

2018 ◽  
pp. 696-712
Author(s):  
Yasemin Zengin Karaibrahimoglu ◽  
Gökçe Tunç
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Statement Analysis ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
York Stock Exchange ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Recent Developments

This chapter provides a clear conceptual discussion on the recent developments in the Financial Statement Analysis (FSA). It presents how IFRSs changed the outlook of the financial reporting and the analysis and explains the key points that should be considered in FSA. Using a case study on the financial reports of Turkcell, a communication and technology company listed both on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Borsa Istanbul (BIST), the differences between IFRSs and U.S. GAAP accounting standards in the measurement of overall financial performance and position are documented. Overall findings show that IFRSs change the appearance of financial statements significantly. While IFRS reporting extenuates “the bottom line” it accentuates total assets with higher shareholder equity compared to U.S. GAAP. This chapter might be a practical guide for users, preparers, and regulators to understand the cosmetic impact of IFRSs on financial statements.

scholarly journals Integration of Internal Control and Financial Statement Audits: Are Two Audits Better than One?

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Shefchik Bhaskar ◽  
Joseph H. Schroeder ◽  
Marcy L. Shepardson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Auditor Judgment ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Better Than

ABSTRACT The quality of financial statement (FS) audits integrated with audits of internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) depends upon the quality of ICFR information used in, and its integration into, FS audits. Recent research and PCAOB inspections find auditors underreport existing ICFR weaknesses and perform insufficient testing to address identified risks, suggesting integrated audits—in which substantial ICFR testing is required—may result in lower FS audit quality than FS-only audits. We compare a 2007–2013 sample of small U.S. public company firm-years receiving integrated audits (accelerated filers) to firm-years receiving FS-only audits (non-accelerated filers) and find integrated audits are associated with higher likelihood of material misstatements and discretionary accruals, consistent with lower FS audit quality. We also find evidence of (1) auditor judgment-based integration issues, and (2) low-quality ICFR audits harming FS audit quality. Overall, results suggest an important potential consequence of integrated audits is lower FS audit quality. Data Availability: Data are publicly available from the sources identified in the text.

Xerox, Inc.

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Seipp ◽  
Sean Kinsella ◽  
Deborah L. Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Audit Risk ◽  
Professional Skepticism ◽  
Audit Failure ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
Administrative Proceedings

ABSTRACT: This audit case examines an interesting real-life instance of financial statement manipulation by a client (Xerox, Inc.) and the related audit failure by the audit firm (KPMG). The facts of this case are drawn from several SEC Accounting Enforcement and Administrative Proceedings Releases. Learning objectives specific to this case include an increased awareness of the importance of reserves, including when their use is appropriate or inappropriate; better understanding of the role of a concurring partner; improved perception of when departures from GAAP are improper; a heightened awareness of the importance of professional skepticism; the identification of audit risk factors; exposure to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); and identification of illegal acts by a client’s management.

scholarly journals Implementation of Good Governance, Utilization of Information Technology and Reliability of Government Financial Statement

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Hadi Jauhari ◽  
Yuliana Sari ◽  
Evada Dewata
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Government

The lack of optimal implementation of Good Governance and the use of information technology is thought to affect the quality of government financial reports. For this reason, this research is intended to determine the relationship between the application of Good Governance, the use of information technology and the reliability of the financial statements of the regional government of South Sumatra Province. The study population was employees of 40 Regional Apparatus Organizations in South Sumatra Province. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling, and 120 respondents are obtained consisting of heads of departments, treasurers of offices, administrators of finance or accounting, and staff of finance at the Regional Apparatus Organization of South Sumatra Province. The collection method uses a questionnaire distributed from May-June 2019. The results of the study show that Good Governance does not have a significant effect on the reliability of local government financial reports.  On the contrary,  the use of information technology has a significant positive effect on the reliability of local government financial reports. The results of this study have implications for the Regional Government of South Sumatra Province as a Good Governance agent in the government to commit and consistently utilize information and accountable technology in transparent financial reporting.

scholarly journals Fraud Diamond Theory in Detecting Financial Reporting Manipulation: A Case of Mining Companies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Mafudi ◽  
Atiek Sri Purwati ◽  
Agung Praptapa ◽  
Sugiarto ◽  
Yonatan Daya Persada
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Financial Statement Fraud ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Triangle Theory

Forensic accounting helps auditor in collecting information while conducting necessary assessment to discover fraud practice. One popular theory in the field is the fraud diamond theory. This study implements the theory to detect the existence of financial statement fraud on mining sector in Indonesia. The diamond fraud model as the enhancement of the triangle theory of fraud concerns budget priorities, financial stability, inefficient monitoring, adjustments to the auditor and changes to the manager. As a dependent variable, financial statement manipulation funded by income control is used. The sampling of 9 companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in the mining sector in 2017-2019 was chosen using purposeful sampling methods, resulting in 27 data observations. The data testing was performed by a multi-linear regression method. This study showed that financial targets and financial stability affect the occurrence of fraud in financial reports. Simultaneously, insufficient monitoring, auditing and change of the director have no impact on the financial statements.

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