Accounting Quality and Audit Attributes on the Stock Price Crashes in an Emerging Market

Mahdi Salehi (), Grzegorz Zimon (), Hayder Adnan Hashim, Ryszard Jędrzejczak and Adam Sadowski
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Mahdi Salehi: Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 9177948974, Iran
Grzegorz Zimon: Department of Finance, Banking, and Accountancy, The Faculty of Management, Rzeszow University of Technology, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
Hayder Adnan Hashim: Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 9177948974, Iran
Ryszard Jędrzejczak: Department of Strategy and Value-Based Management, The University of Lodz, 22/26 Matejki Street, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
Adam Sadowski: Department of Strategy and Value-Based Management, The University of Lodz, 22/26 Matejki Street, 90-237 Lodz, Poland

Risks, 2022, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-24

Abstract: This study addresses the relationship between accounting quality and audit attributes (i.e., audit quality, auditor industry specialization, audit concentration, and audit fees) with companies’ SPCRs listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange. A multivariate regression model was used to test the hypotheses. The research hypotheses were tested using a sample of 210 observations of the listed Iraqi firms from 2013 to 2018 and a multiple regression model based on the random-effects model’s panel data technique. The findings indicate a negative and significant relationship between the accounting quality, audit, auditor industry specialization and SPCRs. Results also conveyed a meaningful and positive association between stock price crash risk (SPCR) and audit fees. The results did not confirm the relationship between corporate governance and audit concentration with SPCR. The primary research model was tested with additional methods (t + 1, fixed effects, ordinary least squares). Since this is the first study addressing this issue in the emerging markets, it provides users, analysts, and legal entities with helpful information about audit attributes that significantly affect SPCR. These results also contribute to developing science and knowledge in this field and fill the literature gap.

Keywords: accounting quality; stock price crash risk; audit quality; auditor industry specialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C G0 G1 G2 G3 K2 M2 M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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