Ex-Arthur Andersen faz auditoria com melhor qualidade

Um estudo publicado recente mostrou que ter feito parte da Andersen - a Big 5 que fechou por conta a Enron - significa auditoria de maior qualidade. Eis a conclusão via aqui:

[A]udit partners who directly experienced Andersen’s demise impose stricter monitoring evident in their clients exhibiting a lower propensity for misstatements and small profits, and paying higher audit fees. Importantly, these findings reconcile with research in finance and economics implying that firsthand experiences matter more to subsequent behavior than general economic conditions or second- or thirdhand experiences. Collectively, the results shed light on one facet of how partners’ audit quality evolves over time. Our findings suggest that major failures associated with the audit firm in which an auditor works can ultimately result in these affected individuals later delivering higher audit quality, which should benefit audit committees in partner selection decisions and audit firms in designing partner assignment policies.