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This means that the bad auditors are gravitationally drawn into auditing the bad companies, while the majority of the profession has an unrepresentative view of how likely that could be.
Misleading client companies may engage bad auditors to revise their financial statements, so that poor earnings quality may not be caused by low audit quality; but rather bad client companies for our purposes, earnings managers with poor earnings quality may choose to hire bad auditors.
Then the government, in its infinite wisdom, decided that since Arthur Andersen employed one or two bad auditors, the entire firm should be destroyed.
We must also introduce a caution: Because we lack information about the audit quality evaluations that fail to find any deficiency, we do not provide any estimation of bad auditors not identified by the ICAC's investigations.
Accordingly, we first determine if sanctioned auditors may be considered bad auditors, particularly if they generally exhibit greater tolerance for higher earnings management practices than non-sanctioned auditors do.
Because sanctions are imposed because of a single, specific audit rather than systematic audit malpractice, if penalized auditors are not bad auditors, then changes in auditor's behavior in the post-inspection period are expected to be marginal, regardless of the economic and reputation losses subsequent to the public disclosure of sanctions.
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