In the following document we provide an extensive synthesis of the academic literature broadly related to reporting by auditors with respect to the issue of going-concern. Our intent is to provide information to the Public Company Oversight Board (PCAOB) that may prove to be useful in their...

We find that non-Big 4 audit offices with greater awareness of SEC enforcement are more likely to issue first-time going concern reports to distressed clients; where SEC “awareness” is measured using (1) audit office proximity to SEC regional offices, and (2) proximity to specific SEC...

Prior research finds that clients of high-quality auditors report higher quality GAAP earnings. We extend this research to investigate whether auditor quality is associated with the quality of voluntarily disclosed non-GAAP earnings measures. Using a sample of Australian firms disclosing annual...