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Refreshing the audit committee: rotation versus new blood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This study examines the relation between refreshing the audit committee and financial reporting quality. I distinguish between refreshing the audit committee through hiring new directors versus rotating an existing board ...
The consequences of bank reporting failure for liquidity creation : evidence from accounting restatements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This paper examines the effect of bank accounting restatements on bank liquidity creation. Banks play a central role in creating liquidity in the economy by financing relatively illiquid assets, such as business loans, ...
An examination of the impact of voluntary disclosure on the post-earnings announcement drift
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study investigates the impact of voluntary disclosure in the form of management earnings guidance on post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD). Prior research contends that investors' delayed response to the information ...
City Location and Sell-Side Analyst Research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I find that analysts' earnings forecasts are more accurate and the stock market reaction to analyst reports is stronger when the analyst is located in ...
Auditor offices and the comparability and quality of client's earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examines the role of the local auditor office in the comparability and quality of their clients' earnings. I construct of sample of firm-pairs ...
The influence of client importance and country-level institutions on auditor behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study investigates how client importance and country-level institutions affect auditor behavior and is motivated by the introduction of fee ...
Does securities regulation improve transparency? : an examination of the effects of EU's transparency directive on stock price informativeness, crash risk, and financial reporting quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This paper examines the impact of a transparency regulation on stock price informativeness, stock crash risk, and financial reporting quality. Specifically, ...
Do industry specialist auditors enforce more conservative recognition of long-lived asset impairments?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Prior research suggests that managers exhibit strong incentives to hide losses and use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. In this study, I focus ...
Disclosure and dividend policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the relation between firm disclosure and dividend policy. It draws on recent research which contends that firm disclosure ...
Audit committee tenure, earnings quality, firm performance and cost of capital
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Regulators and financial reporting institutions have recently increased their focus on audit committee composition, indicating an acknowledgement of ...
Accrual persistence and accrual anomaly
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The first essay, "Inter-temporal accrual persistence and accrual anomaly" investigates whether accrual persistence and accrual anomaly vary with the state of economy. Prior accounting research argues that diminishing ...
The effects of scale and information distribution on group decision-making processes and outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation bridges two research streams in the group decision making research: the weighted opinion research stream and social decision scheme research stream. In two experiments, the scale of the decision outcome ...
The effect of big four office size on audit quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Larger offices of Big Four accounting firms are argued to provide higher quality audits than smaller offices due to greater in-house experience and more expertise in ministering the audits of publicly listed clients. In ...
Does CEO tenure influence corporate bond rating properties?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examines whether and how corporate bond rating quality varies with CEO tenure. Due to the expansive roles of credit ratings in capital market, managers have incentives to maintain or improve their ratings. ...
Firm transparency and innovation : international evidence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Transparency can provide financing benefits to innovation by reducing financial frictions, and it can also entail proprietary costs by revealing ...
Financial leverage and predictability of earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study investigates whether firms' financial leverage affects earnings predictability. I posit and find that earnings predictability is negatively associated with firms' leverage. Further analyses using an instrumental ...
Redacted disclosure and analysts' weighting of private and public information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This paper investigates whether and how redacting proprietary information in regulatory filings affects financial analysts' weighting of private and public information. I examine this issue in the context of initial public ...
Does industry specialization and diversification affect audit office growth?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examines the determinants of audit office growth, and focuses on strategic client portfolio decisions made by offices. While auditors are ...
Credit availability and voluntary disclosures : evidence from interstate branching deregulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines whether the increased availability of bank loans affects borrowers' voluntary disclosures. Exploiting the staggered ...
Auditor style and common disclosure deficiencies : evidence from SEC comment letters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Prior literature documents that auditor style increases financial statement comparability, implicitly making financial statements more useful to outsiders. Auditor style results from policies and procedures that centralize ...