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Is the Information Role Played in IPO Unified Auditing? |
TIAN Gaoliang1,SI Yi2,HAN Jie1,FENG Hua1 |
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2. School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University |
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Abstract In China, business groups usually choose the same auditor to be in charge of multiple listed firms within the group. Based on this starting point, this paper makes use of non-financial IPO firms from 2003-2012 to test whether choosing the same auditor in the group as the IPO auditor affects IPO underpricing and post-IPO underperformance. This paper revealed that choosing the same accounting firm to audit for all companies within a group cannot play an information role in the primary market and it will obviously increase the underpricing with the post-IPO operating performance declining later. After comparing and analysis among accounting firms of different sizes, the result shows that small accounting firms can better interpret this function.
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Received: 16 January 2015
Published: 15 July 2015
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Corresponding Authors:
SI Yi
E-mail: yisi22-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
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