“…Given the dearth of existing studies, 6 Studies find higher employee turnover following accounting misreporting (Kedia and Philippon [2009], Chakravarthy, deHaan, and Rajgopal [2014], Zhou and Makridis [2019], Choi and Gipper [2021]), and that distressed firms have a harder time attracting and retaining employees (see previous cites). 7 For example, Bai, Serfling, and Shaikh [2022], Choi, Gipper, and Malik [2022], and Golshan, Khurana, and Silva [2022] find an association between reporting quality and employee compensation, but critics question the studies' primitive assumption that employees learn from accounting reports. Our findings support this critical assumption.…”