审计会计和投资效率外文翻译文献 2017.doc

外文文献翻译 () 文献出处： Elaoud A, Jarboui A. Auditor specialization, accounting information quality and investment efficiency[J]. Research in International Business & Finance, 2017, 42. 英文原文 Auditor specialization, accounting information quality and investment efficiency Assawer Elaoud, Anis Jarboui Abstract This study is examined how the auditor specialization moderates the effect of accounting information quality on investment efficiency, i.e., whether the effect of accounting information quality on investment efficiency is increasing or decreasing with the presence of the specialist auditor. The reached result reveals that the accounting information quality appears to help decrease the overinvestment problem. Similarly, the auditor specialization has been discovered to help greatly in improving investment efficiency, while reducing the underinvestment problem. We further find that the accounting information quality and the auditor specialization are two mechanisms with some degree of substitution in enhancing investment efficiency. The accounting information quality is positively associated with investment efficiency for firms whose auditor is an industry specialist. Keywords: Investment efficiency; Underinvestment; Overinvestment; Auditor specialization; Accounting information quality (AIQ) 1. Introduction A large theoretical and empirical literature examines the role of the accounting information quality (Bushman et al., 2001; Bushman and Smith, 2001; Bagaeva, 2008; Chan et al., 2009; Chan and Lee, 2009; Zhiying et al., 2012; Ran et al., 2015). One line of research (Biddle and Hilary, 2006; McNichols and Stubben, 2008; Biddle et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2011) suggests that higher quality information enables managers to identify better investment opportunities. Several studies also propose that auditor specialization can be used to reduce the information asymmetry problems (Almutairi et al., 2009; DeBoskey et al., 2012; DeBoskey and Jiang, 2012; Yaghoobnezhada et al.,