This study provides new evidence assessing the usefulness of Basu-based metrics, including DT and the related Khan
and Watts (2009) C-Score, in detecting situational non-conservative income recognition. Consistent with the literature,
we use a Basu-based earnings metric model, with negative market returns as proxy for firms likely to have bad news about
expected future losses from assets (Basu, 1997; LaFond and Roychowdhury, 2008; LaFond and Watts, 2008). We revisit the
issue raised by GHN, motivated in part by the large number of restatements that have occurred since their sample period
of 2000–2001 and by the importance of misstatements (and subsequent restatements) as accounting events. We focus on
the predominant type of restatements, those that correct previous overstatements of earnings. We employ a maximum
sample of 2132 restatements correcting overstated earnings during the period 1999–2005.