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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 ...
The effects of audit committee financial expertise on auditor changes and subsequent audit quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the impact of audit committee financial expertise on the circumstances and likelihood of an auditor change. Auditor changes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Disclosure and CEO turnover
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This paper examines the influence of firm disclosure on CEO turnover. Two competing theoretical views motivate my inquiry. One view is that an expanded disclosure policy improves firm information environment and hence ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Archival evidence on bias in auditors' assessment of client risk and the consequences for audit fees and auditor changes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
As part of planning and performing financial statement audits, auditors are required to make judgments regarding client risk. These judgments permeate the audit process, driving decisions regarding client acceptance, audit ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The contagion effect of office-level audit failures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
I investigate if the presence of an audit failure in an auditor office location in a given fiscal year indicates the presence of a contagion effect on the quality of other concurrent audits conducted by the office. Audit ...
Industry complexity and the importance of industry leadership versus engagement office size on the quality of audit outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
I examine how industry accounting complexity affects the relative importance of audit industry leadership and engagement office size, for quality of audit outcomes. Recent studies report that both office level industry ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...