Kesimpulan
“The results highlight important economic implications of accounting errors. In our model, a
hump-shaped relation arises only if errors have counteracting effects on firms’ bias
propensity. The camouflage effect dominates when errors’ variance is low, and the value
relevance reducing effect takes over when variance is high. Our observation of such a
relation in the data is consistent with the existence of the two effects. As further support, we
show that firms inindustries with more prevalent error shave lower earnings response
coefficients, and intentional misstatements by such firms are more difficult to catch.” Hal 951
Kritik dan Saran
Penelitian ini meninggalkan beberapa pertanyaan yang belum terjawab. Pertama, kekurangan
staff sering dicatat sebagai kontributor utama lain untuk melaporkan kesalahan. Dalam pidato
yang sama yang disebutkan sebelumnya, misalnya, Scott Taub menyatakan bahwa "lebih dari
setengah kesalahan yang mengakibatkan penyajian kembali disebabkan oleh kekurangan
pembukuan dan catatan biasa atau oleh kesalahan penerapan standar akuntansi yang
sederhana." Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti tidak dapat mengidentifikasi proksi yang baik
untuk kekurangan staf. Kedua, studi tentang kepentingan relatif dari kompleksitas transaksi
dan ambiguitas regulasi sebagai dua penyebab kesalahan belum terjawab dalam penelitian.
Pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini mungkin menarik untuk diteliti untuk penelitian selanjutnya.
“This paper leaves several questions unanswered. First, staffing deficiency is often noted as
another major contributor to reporting errors. In the same speech mentioned earlier, for
example, Scott Taub remarks that “well over half of the errors that resulted in restatements
were caused by ordinary books and records deficiencies or by simple misapplications of the
accounting standards.” In this study, however, we are unable to identify a good proxy for
staffing deficiency. Second, a study of the relative importance of transaction complexity and
regulation ambiguity as two causes of errors would be intriguing, but it is beyond the scope
of this paper. These questions might be interesting to examine for future research.” (Hal 952)