One way in which to increase managements’ incentives to report truthfully is to increase the cost to them of doing
otherwise. Beginning in 2005, many firms have chosen to adopt provisions requiring that managers who are discovered to
have made material misstatements in their financial statements return to their firms any compensation gained through
such misstatement. Chan et al. (2012) analyze firms that adopt such provisions in order to provide evidence on the
effectiveness of these so-called clawback provisions. CCCY find that firms that voluntarily adopt clawback provisions
experience reduced incidences of accounting restatements following adoption. Furthermore, their results suggest that
auditors and investors view firms who have adopted clawback provisions as having increased their accounting quality and
lowered their auditor risk.