By analyzing the content of #rating#reports, the study identifies seven different mechanisms that rating analysts are concerned about, with the most significant being the #misstatement-related violations of #debt covenants that increase #liquidityrisk and #compliancerisk. The study finds that #creditratings and #reputationalrisk of #misreporting firms are adversely affected for up to seven years after an intentional misstatement becomes publicly known. The impact of an intentional misstatement on a firm's credit rating is most pronounced when rating analysts express concerns about covenant violations.
#audit is increasingly being called upon to provide assurance on #esg#claims made by their clients, in addition to assessing the accuracy of financial numbers. The concept of #doublemateriality, which involves assessing materiality from both financial and non-financial aspects, is becoming increasingly important in audits. This paper proposes an audit approach that incorporates a “double materiality” lens of financial and ESG data to evaluate the #compliancerisk of ESG #disclosure.
"… almost 50 percent of insurers at risk of facing additional regulatory scrutiny due to failing four Insurance Regulatory Information System (IRIS) ratios received sufficient internal capital to avoid enhanced regulation. Moreover, the likelihood and extent of internal capital allocation are related to regulatory scrutiny risk and the amount of capital allocated is typically just enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny."
"The Compliance Index is an empirically based behavioral measurement system for controlling and monitoring the effectiveness of compliance programs to mitigate compliance risk."
"Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find that the client tends to spend fewer corporate resources on precision with audit risk disclosure. As a result of lower precision, audit risk disclosure may lower the informativeness of audited financial reports, albeit ex-post communicating more information to the market. We also find that audit risk disclosure reduces the client's ex-ante payoff when the auditor bears a high misstatement cost due to audit failure."