The impact of audit rotation on earnings management in brazilian companies with specialized and non-specialized auditing
Abstract
Objective: This paper identifies the impact of the audit rotation on earnings management in Brazilian companies that have specialized auditing and companies that have non-specialized auditing.
Method: The sample consists of 126 companies listed on the Novo Mercado of B3, due to their high level of governance and for presenting a differentiated level related to a standard of transparency and governance required by investors, between 2015 and 2019. The modified Jones model by Dechow et al. (1995) was used to calculate earnings management to measure accruals and the model used by Chen et al. (2005) was utilized to calculate the specialization. The audit rotation was collected from the Reference Report, characterized as a dummy.
Originality/ Relevance: It’s possible to observe that there is still the distinction of identifying auditor specialization as an impact factor for detecting management and distortions, lacking a standard in the results found until the year 2016.
Resulted: Through the panel data regression, the results showed that the audit rotation doesn’t influence the reduction of earnings management and that there is also no support necessary to state that the audit rotation impacts on lower earnings management in companies with specialized audit. Such results are possibly explained by the sharing of customer data between auditing firms and the characteristics of specialization are not adequate to prove this relationship.
Theoretical/methodological/practical contributions: The study contributes to stakeholders, helping them to identify the best companies for investment based on audit exchange, audit firm specialization and clarity in accounting information. The article also contributes with an expansion of new results for the audit rotation literature and earnings management when weighted by the audit firm's specialization.
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