“…Accounting restatements by companies indicate that their previously issued financial statements may be incomplete or unreliable, which may lead users of the misleading financial reports to make incorrect decisions (Flanagan et al, 2008). There is ample empirical evidence on the adverse consequences of financial misreporting, such as discounted market valuation, lower (higher) analysts' earnings forecasts accuracy (dispersion) , decline in the value relevance of accounting information (Anderson and Yohn, 2002;Wilson, 2008), decrease in the amount of net cash provided by financing activities (John et al, 2015), increase in the cost of equity capital (Hribar and Jenkins, 2004), larger bid-ask spreads (Anderson and Yohn, 2002;, credit ratings downgrade (Bierey and Schmidt, 2017) and loss of board seats (Street and Hermanson, 2019). Wilson (2008) argues that restatements raise concerns with the market's assessment of the quality of reported financial information.…”