In an effort to make audit reports more informative to investors, the U.K. recently passed a new audit reporting standard that requires auditors to disclose the risks of material misstatement (RMMs) that had the greatest effect on the financial statement audit. Using short-window market...

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...

Prior studies examine how fraud firms manipulate accruals in order to overstate their earnings. We document that some fraud firms also manipulate operating cash flows in order to fraudulently overstate earnings. More importantly, we predict that these earnings-cash flow frauds (ECF) are harder...

Financial reports are prepared on a going-concern (GC) basis rather than a liquidation basis even when companies are highly distressed. This allows distressed companies to report book values of assets that greatly exceed their liquidation values, implying a lack of conservatism in the balance...

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...