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Non-audit services and earnings announcement timeliness
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We examine the association between permissible non-audit services provided by auditors and the timeliness of earnings announcements. Although earnings announcements are unaudited, audit progress influences management’s ability to release earnings while maintaining confidence in reported results. We posit that non-audit services generate earnings announcement timeliness benefits by improving the efficiency and timing of audits through knowledge transfer. We find that tax non-audit services are associated with timelier earnings announcements while nontax non-audit services are not. These benefits are concentrated in the pre-regulatory period before changes in the mid-2000s. Following these changes, the association persists for firms with weaker information environments, poorer performance, and greater audit-related challenges. Overall, our findings show that auditor-provided tax services are associated with enhanced timeliness of unaudited disclosures and that these benefits vary across firms and over time, highlighting previously undocumented spillovers from non-audit services with implications for academic research and regulation.
Keywords:
Earnings announcements
Timeliness
Non-audit services
Auditor-provided tax services
Reliability
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