The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK

Earnings quality is concerned by information users such as shareholders and government regulators, and how to constrain earnings management has been widely discussed by previous researchers. From the view of auditors’characteristics, audit office size level could have an impact on earnings quality o...

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Main Author: FU, YIHAO
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45216/
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description Earnings quality is concerned by information users such as shareholders and government regulators, and how to constrain earnings management has been widely discussed by previous researchers. From the view of auditors’characteristics, audit office size level could have an impact on earnings quality of clients. My study examines how the earnings quality vary from different audit office sizes base on the UK sample of listed companies from 2014-2016,by using Jones (1991) model to capture earnings management, I conclude that larger audit office size can help constrain earnings management and improve reporting reliability, and accumulated industry expertise for auditors also help improve earnings quality.
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spelling nottingham-452162018-04-10T14:40:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45216/ The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK FU, YIHAO Earnings quality is concerned by information users such as shareholders and government regulators, and how to constrain earnings management has been widely discussed by previous researchers. From the view of auditors’characteristics, audit office size level could have an impact on earnings quality of clients. My study examines how the earnings quality vary from different audit office sizes base on the UK sample of listed companies from 2014-2016,by using Jones (1991) model to capture earnings management, I conclude that larger audit office size can help constrain earnings management and improve reporting reliability, and accumulated industry expertise for auditors also help improve earnings quality. 2017-09-12 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45216/1/Yihao%20FU.pdf FU, YIHAO (2017) The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Earnings management; Audit office size; Earnings quality; Industry specialization
spellingShingle Earnings management; Audit office size; Earnings quality; Industry specialization
FU, YIHAO
The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title_full The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title_fullStr The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title_full_unstemmed The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title_short The Effect of Audit Office-Size on Earnings Management: An Evidence from UK
title_sort effect of audit office-size on earnings management: an evidence from uk
topic Earnings management; Audit office size; Earnings quality; Industry specialization
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45216/