Do Financial Analysts Perform a Monitoring Role in China? Evidence from Modified Audit Opinions
Abacus, Forthcoming
50 Pages Posted: 14 Apr 2012 Last revised: 9 Jun 2015
Date Written: June 1, 2015
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of analyst coverage on the financial reporting quality of firms as reflected by modified audit opinions (MAOs). Using a sample of Chinese listed firms between 2003 and 2009, we find that analyst coverage, which serves as an external governance mechanism, helps to enhance the financial reporting quality of Chinese listed firms. Such effect is more pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises (i.e. private firms), in that they are more dependent on external equity capital and therefore under greater pressure from analysts to provide high-quality accounting information. Furthermore, analysts plays a more effective role for firms with stronger incentives to manipulate financial reports. Our findings are robust to the control of endogeneity issue.
Keywords: Modified Audit Opinion (MAO), Analyst Coverage, Analyst Following, State-owned enterprises, China
JEL Classification: M4, G3
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