Earnings announcement timing and earnings management

Ho-Young Lee and Myungsoo Son

Applied Financial Economics, 2009, vol. 19, issue 4, 319-326

Abstract: This study examines whether earnings announcement timing is associated with earnings management. Unlike prior studies, we partition earnings reporting delay into two separate components: audit report lag and management discretionary lag. Using recent data, we find that less earnings management by late earnings reporters are attributable to auditors rather than management. After controlling for other factors, we show that auditors who lengthen their audit work are likely to permit less earnings management, possibly to minimize their litigation risk. This drives a negative association between total report lag and earnings management. However, no statistically significant association is found between management discretionary lag and earnings management. We find a positive association between management discretionary lag and earnings management only in the sub-sample where earnings were disclosed after the audit report date.

Date: 2009
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