This study analyzes whether the discretionary accruals is lower when firm's auditor was changed at the beginning of manager's tenure. In this study, we used 8,737 firm years from 1987 to 2003. We found that discretionary accruals of listed firms were ...
This study analyzes whether the discretionary accruals is lower when firm's auditor was changed at the beginning of manager's tenure. In this study, we used 8,737 firm years from 1987 to 2003. We found that discretionary accruals of listed firms were decreased when firm's auditor was changed at the beginning of manager's tenure. But We did not find any difference of discretionary accruals of unlisted firms. This findings suggested that the timing of auditor's change in the manager's tenure influences on the auditor's independence.