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AUDIT QUALITY ON
EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND FIRM VALUE
Auliffi Ermian Challen
Universitas Indonesia
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ducted to minimize these practices, one of reaction in stock prices which directly en-
which is the implementation of good cor- hance shareholders’ value. Demski (2004)
porate governance (Dechow et al., 1996; finds that earnings management is nega-
Beasley, 1996; Murhadi, 2009). tively affecting firm’s performance.
One of the attributes of the corporate Based on the explanation above, this
governance framework associated with the study aims to examine the effect of audit
supervision function is accountant (Cadbury, quality (the size of audit firm and auditor
2000). Public accountants play a role in giv- industry specialization) on earnings man-
ing opinions on the fairness of financial state- agement (accrual earnings management
ments, and they are independent auditors and real activities earnings management)
from outside the company (Cadbury, 2000). and on firm value. Previous studies mostly
High quality auditors have ability to examines the relationship between audit
minimize earnings management (Becker et quality and accrual earnings management,
al., 1998; Cai et al., 2005). One measure of while this study, in addition to accrual earn-
audit quality is audit firm size (usually Big 4 ings management, will also include real
vs Non Big 4). Study in Indonesia by Sanjaya activities earnings management.
(2008) shows that firms audited by Big 4
has lower earnings management than firms LITERATURE REVIEW
audited by Non Big 4. Siregar & Utama Auditor Size and Earnings Management
(2006) and Rajhi & Azibi (2008), however, According to DeAngelo (1981), large
find no difference between Big 4 auditors audit firms have greater probability to de-
and non Big 4 in reducing earnings man- tect and reveal error in financial statements.
agement. Larger size also makes them more able to
Another measure of audit quality is withstand the pressure of clients who want
based on auditor industry specialization. clean or unqualified opinion, and also to
According to Craswell et al. (1995), audit control earnings management by corporate
firms reputation is developed from indus- management (Boone et al., 2010).
try-specific expertise. This industrial knowl- Cai et al. (2005) show that the larger
edge and experience determine auditors’ the size of audit firm, the lower the amount
competences. Industry-specialist auditors of earnings management. Meutia (2004)
will provide higher quality audit and will also also find consistent result that firms audited
provide good signal for investors. Krishnan by Big 5 have lower absolute discretionary
(2003) find that specialist auditors are able accruals compared to firms audited by non
to minimize earnings management (discre- Big 5. This suggests that the Big 5 are more
tionary accruals) of firms audited by indus- qualified to detect accrual earnings man-
try specialist are lower than discretionary agement. Sanjaya (2008) also show that Big
accruals of firms whose auditor is not spe- 4 is able to prevent and reduce accrual earn-
cialist. ings management. Based on this explana-
The relationship of audit quality, earn- tion, the hypothesis is as follows:
ings management, and firm value has been H1a: Auditor size has negative effect
examined separately in previous studies. on accrual earnings management.
The failure of Arthur Andersen’s audits on Cohen et al. (2008) find that managers
Enron has provided negative effect on use more earnings management through real
Enron’s stock price (Chaney & Philipich, activities earnings management compared
2002, in Rajhi & Azibi, 2008). This shows to accrual after Sarbanes Oxley Act. The
that high quality of audit will give a positive increasingly strict regulations and account-
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ing standards make the manager can no auditor will be at risk when using the ac-
longer be flexible enough to use accrual crual earnings management in achieving the
earnings management in achieving its earn- earnings targets, so that there is a tendency
ings targets, prompting the management to that management uses real activities to
use earnings management through real ac- achieve the earnings target. Yu (2008) find
tivities. Real activities earnings management that firms audited by industry specialist au-
does not violate the rules in accounting stan- ditors have real activities manipulation larger
dards, so that if they were found, it is not a than companies audited by non-industry
financial fraud or causing earnings restate- specialist auditors. Based on this explana-
ment (Carcello et al., 2006). Therefore, with tion, the hypothesis is formulated as follows:
the increasing regulatory and accounting H2b: Firms audited by industry-special-
standards in Indonesian, we predicted that ist auditors has higher real activities earn-
firms audited by big audit firms who are ings management than firms audited by non
more limited to engage in accruals earn- industry-specialist auditors.
ings management, will tend to use earnings
management through real activities. There- Auditor Size and Firm Value
fore, hypothesis is as follows: Choi and Jeter (1992) using a sample
H1b: Auditor size has negative effect of public firms in the United States, test the
on real activities earnings management. stock price response from investors on the
financial statements audited by Big 4 and
Industry-Specialist Auditor and Earn- non-Big 4. The result shows that the ERC of
ings Management the Big 4 client is significantly higher than
Industrial specialization affects the na- non-Big 4 clients. Ardiati (2005) also find
ture of audit experience and expertise de- that the market reacted positively to firms
velopment that makes an industry spe- audited by large audit firm, as the market
cialist auditors are more able in identifying assumes that the financial statements au-
and determining what issues and problems dited by large audit firm is more reliable
in particular (Solomon et al., 1999). Krishnan than the financial statements audited by
(2003) find that firms not audited by indus- small audit firm. This indicates that good
try specialist auditors have on average 1.2% audit quality will give a positive reaction in
higher discretionary accruals than discre- stock prices, which will increase firm value.
tionary accruals reported by firms audited We expect auditor size will have positive
by industry specialist auditors. effect on firm value:
Balsam et al. (2003) show that indus- H3: Auditor size has negative effect on
try-specialist auditor can impede the accru- firm value.
als earnings management by the manage-
ment. Behn et al. (2008) also find that the Industry-Specialist Auditor and Firm
Big 5 auditors with industry-specialist have Value
a higher audit quality than the Big 5 audi- Foster (1986), in Barry (2004), suggest
tors without industrial specialization. There- that stock returns are influenced by the cred-
fore we have following hypothesis: ibility of information source. According to
H2a: Firms audited by industry special- Solomon et al. (1999), by having special-
ist auditors has lower accrual earnings man- ization in certain industry will make indus-
agement than firms audited by non indus- try-specialist auditors higher ability to
try specialist auditors. indetify and determine issues and problems
Firms audited by an industry-specialist in particular indusrty. Thus, industry-special-
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agement if its ABCFO value is above 0 (posi- + b3INVARit + b4D07it + b5D08it + b6D09it +
tive) (Roychowdhury, 2006; Oktorina, 2008). eit
Lower value of ABCFO indicates that firm Where:
engage in real activities manipulation. ABCFO = Abnormal CFO
Firm value is calculated using price to ASIZE = Audit firm size
book value (PBV) ratio. SPCL = Industry-specialist auditor
Model 1 is used to test hypotheses 1a INVAR = Percentage of inventory and
and 2a: accounts receivable to total
DACit = a0 + a1ASIZEit + a2SPCLit + a3LEVit company assets
+a4SIZEit + a5D07it + a6D08it + a7D09it + eit Inventory and accounts receivable is
Where: included as control variables because the
DAC = Absolute value of discretionary greater percentage of inventories and receiv-
accruals ables to total assets, management have
ASIZE = Audit firm size more ability to manage earnings through
SPCL = Industry-specialist auditor real activities manipulation. Roychowdhury
LEV = Leverage (2006) indicated a significant positive rela-
SIZE = Natural logarithm of total tionship between the inventory and accounts
assets receivable with real activities manipulation.
D07 = 1 if the observation in 2007 and
0 if otherwise Model 3 is used to test hypothesis 3, 4a,
D08 = 1 if the observation in 2008 and 4b, 5a, and 5b:
0 if otherwise PBVit = c0 + c1ASIZEit + c2SPCLit + c3DACit
D09 = 1 if the observation in 2009 and + c4ABCFOit + c5ROEit +c6SIZEit +c7D07it
0 if otherwise + c8D08it + c9D09it + eit
Where:
LEV is included as a control variable PBV = Price to Book Value Ratio
because according to Siregar (2005) and ASIZE = Audit firm size
Puspanita (2009), there is a positive rela- SPCL = Industry-specialist auditor
tionship between leverage with discretion- DAC = Absolute discretionary accruals
ary accruals. Firms with higher leverage tend ABCFO = Abnormal CFO
to engage in earnings management to in- ROE = Return on equity
crease profits to avoid the breach of debt SIZE = Natural logarithm of total
covenants. SIZE is included because firm assets
size, according to Lee & Choi (2002) is
negatively related to earnings management. ROE is included because firms with
Smaller companies tend to do more earn- good operational performance should have
ings management to avoid losses than large higher firm value than other firms. Yanivi
companies. Year dummy variables D07, D08, (2010) find positive relation of performance
and D09 are included as control variables on PBV. SIZE (firm size) is expected to have
to account for adjusted mean differences positive effect on firm value. Barnhart et al.
of the dependent variable between years in (1994) find evidence of the positive effect of
the study period (Siregar, 2005). firm size on firm value.
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DAC = absolute value of discretionary accruals; ABCFO = abnormal CFO; PBV = price
book value in observation; LEV = ratio of debt to total assets; TA = total assets in millions; INVAR
= ratio of inventory and accounts receivable to total assets, ROE = return on equity; ASIZE = 3
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if the company audited by large group, 2 if the company audited by medium group, and 1 if the
company audited by small groups; SPCL = 1 if the company audited by an industry-specialist
auditor and 0 if audited by non-industry-specialist auditors.
ASIZE showed that large audit firms rejected. Firms audited by large audit firms
(Big 4) still dominate the market share in (Big 4), inconsistent with our prediction,
the Indonesia Stock Exchange, where have higer discretionary accruals compared
42.32% of our samples were audited by Big with middle group and small group. Thus,
4, middle audit firms are 21.05%, and small large audit firm size does not necessarily
audit firms of 36.62%. SPCL shows that reduce the practice of earnings manage-
companies audited by the industry-special- ment. This result is consistent with Herman
ist auditor are only 31.58% while the rest (2009) which also finds that Big 4 audit firms
68.42% are not audited by the industry-spe- provides lower quality of earnings than non-
cialist auditor. Big 4 audit firms. We do not find evidence
Model 1 regression results in Table 5 that large audit firms have higher ability to
shows that ASIZE (audit firm size) has posi- to limit the practice of accrual earnings
tive and significant impact on accrual earn- management.
ings management so that hypothesis 1a was
DAC = absolute of discretionary accruals; ASIZE = 3 if the company audited by Large Group,
Group 2 if the company audited by Medium Group, and 1 if the company audited by Small Groups;
SPCL = 1 if audited by the industry-specialist auditor, 0 if not audited by the industry-specialist
auditor; LEV = ratio of debt to total assets; SIZE = natural logarithm of total assets
* Significant at 10% ** Significant at 5% *** significant at 1%
The study by Khurana and Raman is due to the risk of litigation in the United
(2004) which aims to see the difference of States is higher than other countries, thus,
the financial statements credibility audited Big 4 tend to be very concerned about the
by Big 4 and non-Big 4 in several countries quality of its audit.
(the United States, Australia, Canada, and Jeong and Rho (2004) examine whether
UK) find that higher quality audit by Big 4 there are differences in audit quality between
only occurs in the United States, but does Big 6 and non-Big 6 in Korea and find that
not in Australia, Canada, and England. This their result is consistent with the results of
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other studies in Korea, which show no dif- with low law enforcement index, clients au-
ference in audit quality between Big 6 with dited by industry-specialist auditors have
a non-Big 6. This may be because eco- lower discretionary accruals. Therefore, in-
nomic and institutional environment in Ko- dustry-specialist auditor may serve as a
rea does not demand a high quality audit better proxy for audit quality in countries
services and the risk of litigation is small, with weak law enforcement system like In-
therefore do not encouraging auditors to donesia.
limit the opportunistic behavior of manage- LEV has a positive and significant influ-
ment. ence on the DAC. This finding is consistent
Marchesi (2000), in Herusetya (2009), with Siregar (2005) and Puspanita (2009)
find that audit quality is compromised in which show that accrual earnings manage-
some countries because the lack of rules ment aims to reduce the likelihood of debt
regarding auditor independence, including default. SIZE has negative and significant
in Indonesia. In addition, according to Kwon effect on DAC. This evidence is consistent
et al. (2007), Indonesia is among countries with Lee & Choi (2002). Firm size usually is
that have a weak legal system because of an indication of the availability of informa-
low law enforcement index1, which may in- tion about the firm. In general, larger firms
dicate that big audit firms do not have have more information available and easily
strong motivations to restrict the behavior accessible compared to smaller firms. This
or accrual earning managements of their may induce smaller firms to engage in earn-
clients. Therefore, the size of the firm in the ings management because outsiders have
country with weak law enforcement cannot limited information about them.
be a good proxy for audit quality. Model 2 regression result is presented
Regression result shows SPCL has a in Table 6. The result shows that ASIZE has
negative and significant effect on DAC, hence a positive and significant influence on
hypothesis 2a cannot be rejected. This re- ABCFO. Lower amount of ABCFO indicates
sult supports Krishnan (2003) and Balsam et that firms engage in real ativities manipula-
al. (2003) which shows that the more spe- tion. This finding indicates that firms audited
cialized an auditor is in certain industry the by large audit firm size have lower real ac-
better audits quality they provide for their tivities manipulation, so that hypothesis 1b
clients, because they have better understand- is not rejected. This finding shows that firms
ing and knowledge about the environmental audited by large audit firm have smaller real
condition of the industry. activities manipulation compared with other
Our finding also supports Kwon et al. firms. This result is different with the accrual
(2007) who find evidence that in countries earnings management result above.
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F-statistic 6,725
Sig. (F-statistic) 0,000 ***
Adjusted R-squared 0,036
ABCFO = Abnormal CFO; ASIZE = 3 if the company audited by Large Group, Group 2 if the
company audited by Medium Group, 1 if the company audited by Small Groups; SPCL =
1 if audited by the industry-specialist auditor and 0 if audited by non-industry specialist
auditors; INVAR = ratio of inventory and accounts receivable to total assets.
* Significant at 10% ** Significant at 5% *** significant at 1%
Zang (2006) and Cohen & Zarowin negative correlation indicates that manage-
(2008) find that managers swith to use real ment use both earnings management as a
activities manipulation if it is more difficult substitute (alternative). This result is consis-
for them to use accrual earnings manage- tent with Zang (2006) and Cohen & Zarowin
ment. We examine the correlation between (2008). This negative correlation may also
accrual earnings management and earnings explain why we find firms audited by large
management through real activities manipu- accounting firm has higher accrual earnings
lation. Table 7 shows that both earnings management but lower real activities ma-
management has a negative correlation. This nipulation.
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ers and regulators (Roychowdhury, 2006). may be because investors assume that au-
Regression result for Model 3 is pre- dit quality of both audit firms (Big 4 and
sented in Table 8. We can see that ASIZE non Big 4) is not significantly different. Pre-
have insignificant effect on PBV. Audit firm vious findings have also explained that larger
size do not have significant effect on firm value audit firm in Indonesia does not guarantee
(hypothesis 4a is rejected). This result is not to provide higher audit quality because of
consistent with Choi & Jeter (1992) and weak law enforcement (Kwon et al., 2007).
Ardiati (2005), but supports Herusetya (2009) Weak law enforcement, in conjunction with
finding. Herusetya (2009) finds no evidence low risk litigation, provides limited motiva-
that markets react differently between firms tion for auditors to limit opportunistic earn-
audited by Big 4 and non Big 4. ings management.
Plausible explanation for this finding
PBV = price-to-book value; ASIZE = 3 if the company audited by Large Group, Group 2 if
the company audited by Medium Large, 1 if the company audited by Small Groups; SPCL
= 1 if the company audited by industry specialist auditors and 0 if audited by the non-
specialist auditors; DAC = absolute value of discretionary accruals; ABCFO = abnormal
CFO; ROE = return on equity; SIZE = natural logarithm of total assets.
Significant ** 5% *** significant 1%
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major criteria for their investment decision, tivities manipulation. Taken together, these
regardless of how it is generated (Purnomo results indicate that accrual earnings man-
and Pratiwi, 2009). agement and real activities manipulation are
ABCFO has a positive and significant used as a substitute by management. Real
effect on PBV. This indicates that earnings activities manipulation by management re-
management through real activities manipu- duces firm value while accrual earnings
lation significantly and negatively related to management does not has significant affect,
firm value so that the hypothesis 5b cannot probably because real activities manipula-
be rejected. This result is consistent with tion has real negative consequences for
Ewert & Wagenhofer (2004), in Gunny firms’ business.
(2005), which find that real activities manipu-
lation reduce firm value. Real activities ma- IMPLICATIONS
nipulation is extremely costly for firms than Our study provides indication that only
accrual earnings management (Cohen & industry-specialist auditors provide higher
Zarowin, 2010) because of the the real ef- quality (reducing accrual earnings manage-
fect on firm’s operation. There is high pos- ment), which provide input for regulator in
sibility of negative future cash flows as a making oversight policy to improve the
consequence of managers’ initiatives to in- quality of public accountants (auditors).
crease profits this year. This negative signal This finding also indicates that the devel-
as a consequence will be valued negatively opment of auditor expertise in a particular
by investors. industry can improve the audit quality.
ROE, as a control variable, has positive Therefore, public accountants are expected
and significant effect on PBV. The market to constantly improve their competence and
gives higher response for firms with good expertise. Investors need to identify whether
performance, consistent with Yanivi (2010). audit firm is an industry-specialist auditor.
Whereas SIZE has insignificant effect on PBV. We also find that real activities manipula-
tion reduce the firm value, which suggest
CONCLUSIONS that firms should aware of the negative con-
This study aims to examine the effect sequences of their actions.
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