The primary objective of this research was to investigate the potential moderating role of audit fees in the relationship between audit committee characteristics and earnings management. Specifically, this study aimed to establish connections between audit committee features, such as committee...

Cohen et al. (2008) document that firms switched from accrual-based earnings management (AEM) to real earnings management (REM) within three years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002. A remaining question is how so many firms could have made the transition from one accounting...

We examine the relationship between audit committee directors' unequal allocation of attention to multiple directorships and firms' earnings management. We find that firms with a greater proportion of audit committee directors for whom the directorship is more important than their other...