Relevant but Delayed Information in Negotiated Audit Fees: Evidence from Stock Price Crashes

dc.contributor.authorHackenbrack, Karl
dc.contributor.authorJenkins, Nicole Thorne
dc.contributor.authorPevzner, Mikhail
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-28T16:16:23Z
dc.date.available2017-06-28T16:16:23Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractAudit fee negotiations conclude the first quarter of the year under audit, yet the audit fee is not disclosed until the first quarter of the following year. We conjecture that negotiated audit fees impound auditor’s consequential private, client-specific knowledge about events investors will eventually learn. We demonstrate that year-to-year changes in audit fees have an economically meaningful positive association with proxies for idiosyncratic risk — future negative stock performance (crashes, skewness, and volatility), debt downgrades and lawsuits. This relation holds in the year under audit as well as the following year. The results suggest that negotiated audit fees contain information meaningful to investors that if disclosed when known instead of in the following year, would reduce information asymmetry.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://fisher.osu.edu/supplements/10/11702/Jenkins%20OSU_presentationpaper.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent38 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2D79599N
dc.identifier.citationHackenbrack, K., N. Jenkins, and M. Pevzner. 2011. Relevant but Delayed Information in Negotiated Audit Fees: Evidence from Stock Price Crashes. Working paper, Vanderbilt University, University of Kentucky, and George Mason University.en_US
dc.identifier.uri10.2139/ssrn.1668983
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/4262
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjectCrashesen_US
dc.subjectAudit feesen_US
dc.subjectdisclosureen_US
dc.titleRelevant but Delayed Information in Negotiated Audit Fees: Evidence from Stock Price Crashesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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