 More than solely reactive: Audit committee director departures as anticipatory actions in financial misstatementsWu‐Po Liu, Hua‐Wei Huang and Wan‐Ci Huang Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2025, vol. 52, issue 3, 1306-1327 Abstract: This study investigates the impact of financial misstatements on audit committee director departures, focusing on anticipatory and reactive actions. By analyzing data from restating and non‐restating firms between 2004 and 2020, we categorize the misstatement process into pre‐occurrence, occurrence, investigation, and post‐announcement periods. Our findings reveal that audit committee directors in restating firms are significantly more likely to depart in all four periods, compared with their counterparts in non‐restating firms. We further explore how the likelihood of departure is influenced by directors’ characteristics, including financial expertise, gender, busyness, tenure, and age. The results suggest that financial misstatements are not merely reactionary events that prompt director departures but also serve as anticipatory signals leading to proactive exits before issues become public. This study provides valuable insights for financial statement users, boards of directors, and governance activists. Date: 2025 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jbfnac:v:52:y:2025:i:3:p:1306-1327 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Finance & Accounting is currently edited by P. F. Pope, A. W. Stark and M. Walker More articles in Journal of Business Finance & Accounting from Wiley Blackwell |
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