Auditor Reputation and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
We examine the relation between auditor reputation and earnings management in banks using a sample of banks from 29 countries. In particular, we examine the implications of two aspects of auditor reputation, auditor type and auditor industry specialization, for earnings management in banks. We find that both auditor type and auditor industry specialization moderate benchmark-beating behavior in banks. However, we find that once auditor type and auditor industry specialization are included in the same tests, only auditor industry specialization has a significant impact on constraining benchmark-beating behavior. In tests related to income-increasing abnormal loan loss provisions, we find in separate tests that both auditor type and auditor expertise constrain income-increasing earnings management. Again, in joint tests, only auditor industry expertise has a significant impact on constraining income-increasing earnings ma
Discipline
Accounting | Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics | Corporate Finance
Research Areas
Corporate Governance, Auditing and Risk Management
Publication
American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
City or Country
San Francisco, CA, USA
Citation
LIM, Chee Yeow; Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran; and Lobo, Gerald J..
Auditor Reputation and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry. (2010). American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/780