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The International Standards on Auditing and the Accuracy of Auditors’ Going Concern Disclosures: Evidence for Private Firms in a Low Litigious Environment

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  • Marie-Laure Vandenhaute
  • Diane Breesch
  • Benjamin Kinnart
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This paper examines the effect of adopting the International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 570 on going concern (GC) disclosures in the audit report in a European environment characterized by low litigation and reputation risk. We exploit a natural experiment in Belgium, where the global GC standard ISA 570 replaced the local GC standard. We examine whether this shift in standards changed the accuracy of auditors’ GC disclosures. Using a sample of 30,339 stressed private companies with audited financial statements for periods ending on or after 15 December 2012 till 14 December 2016, our findings suggest that the adoption of the ISA 570 improves the accuracy of auditors’ GC disclosures. Specifically, we find that the implementation of the ISA 570 is associated with an 8 percent decrease in false positive misclassifications (GC opinion without subsequent bankruptcy), while the rate of false negative misclassifications (bankruptcy without prior GC opinion) remains unchanged.

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  • Marie-Laure Vandenhaute & Diane Breesch & Benjamin Kinnart, 2024. "The International Standards on Auditing and the Accuracy of Auditors’ Going Concern Disclosures: Evidence for Private Firms in a Low Litigious Environment," Accounting in Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 356-387, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acceur:v:21:y:2024:i:3:p:356-387
    DOI: 10.1080/17449480.2024.2332378
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