Is there a trade-off between accrual-based and real earnings management activities in the presence of (fe) male auditors?
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Authors | Owusu, Andrews, Mansour Zalata, Alaa, Omoteso, Kamil and Elamer, Ahmed A |
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Abstract | Prior research suggests that the presence of high quality auditors (i.e. proxied by audit firm characteristics) constrains accrual-based earnings management, but it inadvertently leads to higher real activities manipulation. We investigate whether such trade-off exists between accrual-based and real earnings management activities in the presence of female or male auditors. We use a sample of UK firms for the period 2009 to 2016 and find that firms audited by female auditors do not resort to a higher level real activities manipulation when their ability to engage in accruals management is constrained. Overall, our results suggest that the benefits of hiring female auditors (i.e. less accrual-based earnings management) are overwhelmingly higher than the costs they might bring to the client firms (i.e. higher real activities manipulation). |
Keywords | Auditor Gender; Abnormal Accruals; Real Activities |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Business Ethics |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 1573-0697 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04672-5 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625384 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/625384 | |
Publication dates | 13 Nov 2020 |
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Deposited | 16 Nov 2020, 09:09 |
Accepted | 01 Nov 2020 |
Rights | Attribution 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Coventry, University of Southampton, University of Derby and Brunel University London |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94666/is-there-a-trade-off-between-accrual-based-and-real-earnings-management-activities-in-the-presence-of-fe-male-auditors
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