The Relationship between Financial Restatements and Corporate Governance Mechanisms

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The objective of this research is to study the nature and reasons of financial restatements, to analyze the its relationship with corporate governance mechanisms of companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.  The study uses secondary data collecting annual registration statements (Form 56-1) and the annual financial statements of 415 firm-years during the period 2016-2020.  This research uses two types of research tools, checklist cards to examine and collect the nature and reasons of financial restatements and multiple regressions to analyze the data and to test the hypotheses.  The results indicate that the characteristics of restated statements regarding costs and expenses are the highest, followed by investment, financing and income.  During the period between 2016 and 2020, the adoption of new accounting standards was the highest cause of restatements, followed by the change in accounting policies and errors. However, there was no cause for financial restatements arising from fraud.  In addition, the results of the analysis of the relationship of variables affecting the financial restatements found that the board independence and outside Blockholders can significantly reduce the financial restatements. In contrast, audit committees who have accounting knowledge and financial expertise significantly increased financial restatements. On the other hand, the research results did not find any relationship between the CEO duality and the financial restatements.

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