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Do Investors See Through Mistakes in Reported Earnings?Katsiaryna Salavei BardosFairfield University - Department of Finance Joseph H. GolecUniversity of Connecticut - Department of Finance John P. HardingUniversity of Connecticut - School of Business - Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies May 14, 2010 Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming Abstract: This study investigates whether investors see through materially misstated earnings, and whether they anticipate earnings restatements. For firms that restate at least one annual report, we find that investors are misled by mistakes in reported earnings at the time of initial earnings announcements. Investors react positively to the component of the favorable earnings surprise that will subsequently be restated, and attach the same valuation to it as to the true earnings surprise. We also find that investors anticipate the subsequent downward restatements and start marking stock prices down several months before a restatement announcement, so that the full impact of a restatement is about three times as large as the initial announcement effect. Overall our findings indicate that although investors anticipate restatements several months before its announcement, they are misled by misstated earnings for several years and therefore would benefit from better quality of financial information.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 50 Keywords: restatements, earnings, valuation, long-run event study, corporate misreporting, valuation JEL Classification: G14, G30 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: February 13, 2008 ; Last revised: October 6, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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