Jeffrey Burks
Accountancy
Thomas and Therese Grojean Family Associate Professor of Accountancy
- Financial accounting
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The Wall Street Journal
When Companies Fire Their Auditors, Timing Is Clue to Future Trouble
December 13, 2021
“Neither the company nor the auditor wants to air dirty laundry by disclosing disputes. It could create legal liability and also reputational risk,” said Jeffrey Burks of the University of Notre Dame, who co-wrote the study with Jennifer Sustersic Stevens of Ohio University.
phys.org
Disclosures on auditor firings are useless in forecasting restatement trouble, study shows
November 10, 2021
Mandatory Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures about the reasons behind auditor firings are useless for assessing whether restatement trouble lies ahead for the company, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame.