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The impact of geography on corporate financial reporting
I investigate the impact of geography on corporate financial reporting. Specifically, I predict and document that both the availability of accounting and business expertise and the resulting knowledge transfers in a location influence the financial reporting attributes of public companies headquartered in that location. The nature of this impact is moderated by auditor attributes. I further investigate whether local knowledge transfers can contribute to the spread of inappropriate accounting practices and document strong local effects in the incidence of backdating-related restatements. These impacts of location on financial reporting are novel and incremental to effects reported in prior studies
The Impact of Geography on Corporate Financial Reporting
50 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.I investigate the impact of geography on corporate financial reporting. Specifically, I predict and document that both the availability of accounting and business expertise and the resulting knowledge transfers in a location influence the financial reporting attributes of public companies headquartered in that location. The nature of this impact is moderated by auditor attributes. I further investigate whether local knowledge transfers can contribute to the spread of inappropriate accounting practices and document strong local effects in the incidence of backdating-related restatements. These impacts of location on financial reporting are novel and incremental to effects reported in prior studies.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD