Earnings management risk and audit pricing: Evidence from big bath accounting

H Choi, K Karim, Y Zhang - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examine whether big baths (large and non‐recurring charges) affect auditors' risk
assessments and therefore result in higher audit fees. Prior studies have found that there is …

Managerial Misdirection? How Firms Use Confounding Events to Obfuscate the Impact of Data Breaches

R Powell, R Gao, JR Stanfield - … Events to Obfuscate the Impact of …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine abnormal stock returns around data breach events from 2005 to 2022 in the US
and investigate if breach severity, confounding strategies, and managerial characteristics …