This study investigates whether auditors use information in accounting estimates when making going concern assessments and whether the usefulness of information in accounting estimates to auditors depends on whether the estimate is prepared following a rule-based standard or a principle-based...

This study examines whether material corporate events that occur during the year-end closing process constrain management's and the auditor's resources and inhibit them from providing high quality financial reports. For a sample of U.S. company financial reports issued during 2000–2013, we...