The association between characteristics of audit committee accounting experts,audit committee chairs,and financial reporting timeliness

We investigate the association between audit committee (AC) members' financial expertise and financial reporting timeliness, and extend the discussion by investigating how the source of accounting expertise (e.g., public accounting or CFO) differentially influences financial reporting timeliness. We predict and find that AC accounting financial expertise is associated with timelier accounting information. Further, we find that accounting expertise gained from public accounting experience is associated with timelier financial reporting; however, accounting expertise gained from CFO experience is not. We also find that AC chairs (ACCs) with accounting expertise from public accounting experience are significantly associated with timelier financial reporting while ACCs with CFO-sourced accounting expertise are not. Our results are important for two reasons. First, our results suggest that AC accounting financial expertise contributes to AC effectiveness by improving the timeliness of financial information. Second, our findings highlight how personal characteristics of accounting financial experts influence contributions toward AC effectiveness.     

上市公司会计信息披露及时性的改进建议

上市公司会计信息披露的及时与否,直接影响着会计信息使用者相关决策的成败。本文针对如何改进上市公司会计信息披露的及时性这个问题,主要从会计信息的提供者、监管者、鉴证者三方面,提出了完善公司治理结构、优化业务处理流程、允许调整会计年度、建立信息披露电子化体系、掌握现代审计理论与技术等若干改进建议。     

Private Equity Involvement and Earnings Quality

Abstract:  This paper examines the relation between private equity (PE) investors' involvement and their portfolio firms' earnings quality. We operationalize earnings quality through comparative analyses of conditional loss recognition timeliness. For a sample of unlisted Belgian firms, we find that PE involvement increases a firm's willingness to recognize losses more timely as compared to industry, size and life-cycle matched non-PE backed firms. Further, we document more powerful earnings quality effects for firms backed by independent and captive PE-investors as compared to firms backed by government-related PE-investors. Finally, we find no systematic variation in earnings quality across different levels of PE ownership. Our results are robust to the inclusion of various controls and remain unaffected when we consider the endogeneity of PE investments and compare pre- and post PE investment years. The current results provide novel evidence towards the understanding of PE investors' governance implications for portfolio firms' earnings quality.     

Do analysts affect bad news timeliness?

I investigate the effect of analysts on the speed with which bad news is reflected in earnings. Intuitively, the more analysts that cover a firm, the more costly it will be for the firm to keep bad news suppressed. Thus, analyst coverage should positively affect bad news timeliness (BNT) (but not necessarily the differential timeliness of bad news over good news, or conditional conservatism). Using brokerage house mergers as a natural experiment with a difference-in-differences design, I find that an exogenous decrease in analyst coverage decreases BNT; that is, analysts positively affect BNT. The decrease in BNT is robust to controlling for unobserved firm heterogeneity, using a propensity score matched sample, persists for up to three years after the brokerage house merger, and is stronger for firms with relatively low analyst coverage before the merger. The result improves our understanding of how analysts affect a firm's information environment.     

及时披露能抑制信息泄露吗?

以深交所2007-2009年披露年报的A股上市公司为样本,本文实证研究了我国上市公司信息披露的及时性对抑制信息泄露与内幕交易的现实效果。研究表明,年报披露及时性逐年提高,披露及时性与信息泄露程度显著负相关,及时披露对抑制信息泄露具显著效用;信息质量与及时性在抑制信息泄露方面具协同作用;与信息质量较好的公司比较,信息质量较差的公司因及时披露对信息泄露的抑制效果更显著,表明及时披露在抑制信息泄露方面对信息质量具替补作用。     

违规公司监管处罚对连锁公司会计信息及时性的溢出效应研究

基于2008-2021 年中国上市公司数据,分析了违规公司接受处罚对连锁公司会计信息及时性的影响。研究结果表明,违规公司接受处罚能够促使连锁公司提高会计信息及时性。运用倾向得分匹配、多时点双重差分模型、平行趋势检验和替换被解释变量等多种方法进行内生性及稳健性检验,并且进一步区分违规类型、处罚程度以及连锁公司的网络位置检验监管处罚对连锁公司会计信息及时性的溢出效应,该结论依然成立。该结果有助于证券监管机构继续积极发挥监管职能,在党的十九大、二十大持续关注证券监管和上市公司提质的背景下具有重要的现实意义。