Not logged in.

Contribution Details

Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title International PCAOB Inspections and Earnings management Transmission within Multinational Business Groups
Organization Unit
Authors
  • David Oesch
  • Felix Urban
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name SSRN
Number 3277474
ISSN 1556-5068
Number of Pages 53
Date 2019
Abstract Text Does the impact of international Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspections extend beyond country borders of inspected auditors? We investigate this question by examining multinational business groups. Following initial PCAOB inspections of accounting firms auditing foreign U.S.-listed global ultimate owners, our findings indicate that their international subsidiaries decrease earnings management. Research design choices such as the comparison of treated observations with same country-industry-year control observations and a fixed effects structure that controls for country, industry, year, and group characteristics mitigate concerns of omitted variables. Our paper provides evidence for benefits of international PCAOB inspections over and above the previously documented effects for firms located in the countries of the inspected auditors.
Free access at DOI
Digital Object Identifier 10.2139/ssrn.3277474
Other Identification Number merlin-id:18111
PDF File Download from ZORA
Export BibTeX
EP3 XML (ZORA)