This study contributes to the literature by responding to the call of Ball et al. (2011) for new research to address the
question whether Basu-based metrics such as the DT metric and the C-Score are useful proxies for earnings conservatism.
Overall, our results provide new evidence on the effectiveness of Basu-based metrics in capturing variation in
conservatism in the restatement setting.
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides background on earnings conservatism and earnings restatements.
Section 3 presents the research design and describes the sample. Sections 4 and 5 discuss the main empirical results.
Section 6 provides additional analyses. Section 7 concludes the paper.