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Financial Restatements

Financial Restatements
Author: Orice Williams
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2007-12
Genre:
ISBN: 1422309177

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In 2002, it was reported that the number of restatement announcements due to financial reporting fraud &/or accounting errors grew significantly between Jan. 1997 & June 2002, negatively impacting the restating companies¿ market capitalization by billions of dollars. The author was asked to update key aspects of the 2002 report. This report discusses: (1) the number of, reasons for, & other trends in restatements; (2) the impact of restatement announcements on the restating companies¿ stock costs & what is known about investors¿ confidence in U.S. capital markets; & (3) regulatory enforcement actions involving accounting- & audit-related issues. Includes recommendations. Charts & tables.


Financial Restatement Database

Financial Restatement Database
Author: Orice M. Williams
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN: 9781422309988

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Financial Statement Restatements

Financial Statement Restatements
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Financial statements
ISBN:

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An Analysis of Restatements on Financial Reporting

An Analysis of Restatements on Financial Reporting
Author: James Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN:

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Public confidence in financial statements may be at an all-time low. The bankruptcy of Enron, the largest bankruptcy in United States history, brings into question whether the accounting profession, and the auditing process in particular, protects the users of financial statements. The shower of scandals and earnings restatements makes users skeptical of the financial reporting rules that are supposed to protect the public. In addition, a lack of transparency in reporting followed by restated financial restatements disclosing billions of dollars of omitted liabilities and losses exacerbate this problem. This paper considers the frequency and nature of Form 8-K reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Fortune 500 companies during 2001. This form is used to report the occurrence of any material events or corporate changes which are of importance to investors or security holders and previously have not been reported by the registrant. Information from Form 8-K is analyzed to identify which companies filed 8-K reports, the types of disclosures that are included, industry characteristics of companies that file 8-K reports, whether financial statements were restated as a result of those filings, the reasons that restatements, if any, were required, and the relationship between size of company and number of restatements.


Are Financially Constrained Firms More Prone to Financial Restatements?

Are Financially Constrained Firms More Prone to Financial Restatements?
Author: Robert M. Bowen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

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We examine the association between firms' financial constraints and potentially value- destroying financial restatements. How financial constraints affect managerial behavior has been labeled as a core issue in accounting and finance. Ex-ante, the nature of the relation between financial constraints and financial restatements is unclear and remains unexplored in the literature.We find that financially constrained firms are more prone to restate their financial statements. We examine two explanations for this relation. First, consistent with managerial opportunism, we find that among financially constrained firms, weaker firm performance, greater financial leverage, and greater informational complexity are associated with higher discretionary accruals and more restatements. Second, consistent with managerial signalling, we find that although firms with greater investment opportunities and financing needs have higher discretionary accruals, they are not associated with more restatements. These firms signal positive prospects through earnings management while avoiding GAAP violations that could trigger restatements. Finally, we find that a financial constraint measure based on textual analysis outperforms traditional metrics used in most prior research.


Determinants of Financial Misreporting

Determinants of Financial Misreporting
Author: Soenke Sievers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

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We provide a comprehensive overview of the findings regarding the causes of financial restatements in the US. Acknowledging that restatements may derive from intentional and unintentional misreporting, we assign the findings to one of three pillars: i) expected benefits, ii) expected costs and iii) executive characteristics. Assuming that managers are rational decision-makers, the likelihood of misreporting increases in expected benefits and decreases in expected costs. While expected benefits reflect executives' desire to maximize private benefits through compensation contracts, expected costs refer to the likelihood that misreporting will be revealed through internal or external controls. Given that efficiency of internal and external controls derives from the ability to avoid both, intentional and unintentional misreporting, we also review literature that investigates less severe restatements. We support the existing research by enhancing the understanding of restatements in light of severe and less severe restatements, identifying research gaps and organizing fragmented findings into a larger picture. Ultimately, our survey might inform regulatory bodies, auditors, standard setters and executives regarding restatements of financial statements.


Summary of the Accounting Establishment

Summary of the Accounting Establishment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting, and Management
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1976
Genre: Accountants
ISBN:

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Financial Restatements

Financial Restatements
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976425738

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Financial restatements : update of public company trends, market impacts, and regulatory enforcement activities : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate.


Reoccurrence of Financial Restatements

Reoccurrence of Financial Restatements
Author: Yu-Ho Chi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012
Genre: Corporations
ISBN:

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Restatements are serious corporate reporting failures which cause investors' concerns about the credibility of restated firms' financial reporting environment. As a result, restatements are usually followed by auditor turnovers, manager turnovers and disclosures of internal control problems. This study attempts to provide empirical evidence on the associations between the reoccurrence of financial restatements and auditor turnover/choice (Big 4/non-Big 4), management replacement (CEO/CFO), and improvement of internal controls. This study also investigates the associations of restated firms' stock market performance with the role of auditor choice, management turnover and improvement of internal controls. Using a sample of 460 earnings restatements reported in the years of 2003 and 2004 with 282 firms with no reoccurrence of financial restatement in the subsequent three years and 178 firms with at least one financial restatement in the subsequent three-year period, my findings show a negative relationship between the probability of reoccurrence of firms' financial restatements and (1) the change to a Big 4 auditor, (2) replacement of CEO/CFO, and (3) improvement on internal controls. Moreover, I find better stock market performance of non-reoccurrence firms compared with that of reoccurrence firms over a three-year period after the initial restatement. Furthermore, the stock market performance is found to be positively associated with the change to a Big 4 auditor, replacement of CEO/CFO and improvement on internal controls.-- Abstract.