Research suggests that greater earnings disaggregation in financial statements leads to favorable market outcomes. This perspective is based on a presumption that the disaggregation separates earnings components with heterogeneous characteristics. We hypothesize that the disaggregation of...

Over two-thirds of United States public companies now announce annual earnings prior to (versus with, or after) audit completion. We expect this practice has potential to increase pressure in auditor/client negotiations over post-announcement audit adjustments. In a controlled experiment with...

We document a growing disparity in earnings disclosure mechanisms. Firms are increasingly disclosing earnings announcements (EA) concurrently with the 10-K filing instead of first issuing a ‘stand-alone' EA. Firm adoption of concurrent EA/10-Ks is associated with lower investor sophistication,...

The quality of financial statement (FS) audits integrated with audits of internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) depends upon the quality of ICFR information used in, and its integration into, FS audits. Recent research and PCAOB inspections find auditors underreport existing ICFR...

We document that the conventional disclosure practice of ‘stand-alone' earnings announcements (EAs), which preempt 10-K filings, is steadily disappearing over time. Instead, firms are increasingly adopting the disclosure strategy of releasing the EA concurrently with the 10-K. We first examine...