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Do Restatements Improve the Persistence of Earnings and Its Components?

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  • Gordian A. Ndubizu
  • Menghistu Sallehu

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We examine the persistence of earnings in the pre‐ and postrestatements periods and find that restatements generally improve the persistence of earnings. We also examine how the persistence of earnings is influenced by restatements that are voluntarily initiated by managers (voluntary restatements) and those forced onto firms by outsiders (mandated restatements). Our analysis shows that voluntary restatements are followed by improvement in the persistence of earnings and that mandated restatements are not followed by improvement in earnings persistence. We find results that are consistent with the main finding when we decompose earnings into accruals and free cash flows. We use a difference‐in‐difference research design and confirm that the improvement in the postrestatement persistence of earnings components exceeds that of control firms only for voluntary restatements. Further, we show that our results are robust after controlling for endogeneity of voluntary restatements by including a two‐stage model using the Heckman () method where we first estimate the likelihood of manipulation detection and analyze change in persistence conditional on the first stage analysis. The improvement in earnings persistence around voluntary restatements is not driven by the level of earnings decomposition or a subgroup of voluntary restatements. The results support our hypothesis that voluntary restatements have distinctly different economic consequences from mandated restatements. Les retraitements améliorent‐ils la persistance des résultats et celle de leurs éléments? Résumé Les auteurs, qui s'intéressent à la persistance des résultats au cours des périodes qui précèdent et suivent les retraitements, constatent que les retraitements améliorent de façon générale la persistance des résultats. Ils étudient également dans quelle mesure la persistance des résultats est influencée par les retraitements auxquels les gestionnaires procèdent volontairement (retraitements volontaires) et les retraitements exigés par des tiers (retraitements obligatoires). L'analyse des auteurs révèle que les retraitements volontaires sont suivis d'une amélioration de la persistance des résultats alors que les retraitements obligatoires ne le sont pas. Les résultats qu'ils recueillent vont dans le sens de cette constatation principale lorsqu'ils décomposent les résultats en régularisations et en flux de trésorerie disponibles. Les auteurs appliquent la méthodologie des écarts dans les différences et confirment que l'amélioration de la persistance des éléments des résultats postérieure au retraitement dépasse celle qu'affichent les sociétés du groupe de contrôle uniquement dans le cas des retraitements volontaires. Ils montrent en outre que leurs résultats résistent au contrôle de l'endogénéité des retraitements volontaires en utilisant un modèle à deux étapes inspiré de la méthode de Heckman () dans lequel ils estiment en premier lieu la probabilité de détection de la manipulation et analysent la variation de la persistance selon l'analyse de la première étape. L'amélioration de la persistance des résultats à proximité des retraitements volontaires ne dépend pas du degré de décomposition des résultats ou d'un sous‐groupe de retraitements volontaires. Les résultats obtenus par les auteurs confirment leur hypothèse selon laquelle les retraitements volontaires ont des conséquences économiques visiblement différentes de celles des retraitements obligatoires.

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  • Gordian A. Ndubizu & Menghistu Sallehu, 2017. "Do Restatements Improve the Persistence of Earnings and Its Components?," Accounting Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(4), pages 371-427, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:accper:v:16:y:2017:i:4:p:371-427
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3838.12155
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