Prior research confirms regulators’ concern that special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) exhibit elevated financial reporting risk (Kim, Park, Peterson, and Wilson 2022). In this study, we explore the auditor’s role in either elevating or reducing SPAC financial reporting risks....

This study investigates whether auditor quality and audit committee expertise are associated with improved financial disclosure timeliness as measured by the duration of a financial statement restatement's “dark period.” The restatement dark period represents the length of time between a...

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...