Going-concern initial public offerings |
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Authors: | Michael Willenborg JCJames C McKeown |
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Abstract: | We study the relation between audit reports and the capital-raising activities of small business by studying the role of going-concern (GC) audit opinions in IPOs. After controlling for other effects, we find that the presence of a GC opinion is positively related to whether a stock delists (for deleterious reasons) within two years of IPO. We also find that GC IPOs suffer less first-day underpricing. Based on Rock (1986), this implies that firms with GCs have less ex ante uncertainty in the sense that the information conveyed by a GC helps uninformed investors estimate the dispersion of secondary market values. |
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Keywords: | Delisting Going-concern opinions Initial public offerings Underpricing |
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