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Earnings Restatements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Disciplining of Chief Financial OfficersDenton CollinsTexas Tech University - Area of Accounting Adi MasliUniversity of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business Austin L. ReitengaUniversity of Alabama Juan Manuel SanchezUniversity of Arkansas - Department of Accounting March 1, 2010 Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1-34, 2009 Abstract: We investigate involuntary chief financial officer (CFO) turnover following earnings restatements, the labor market penalties imposed on former restatement-firm CFOs, and whether these disciplinary consequences have increased following the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Our results suggest that, relative to a control group of non-restating firms, firms restating earnings have higher rates of involuntary CFO turnover, and that former restatement-firm CFOs face stiff labor market penalties. We generally find that the passage of SOX has not increased involuntary CFO turnover rates following restatements. However, we find that labor market penalties for former CFOs of restatement firms are more severe in the post-SOX period, suggesting that SOX has increased ex post settling up costs. Our results suggest that the influence of SOX on the labor market has resulted in CFOs being held more accountable for their actions.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 44 Keywords: Earnings restatements, chief financial officers, executive compensation, executive turnover, labor market penalties, disciplinary actions JEL Classification: M51, M52 working papers seriesDate posted: December 21, 2007 ; Last revised: March 2, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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