Financial reporting quality proxies are less direct than restatements or GCs, because the auditor's influence on reporting
quality is likely to be relatively more limited. Measures such as DAC do not directly identify GAAP violations, and thus are
relatively less egregious when compared to restatements and AAERs. Like restatements and GCs, the financial reporting
quality proxies are also attempt to measure actual outputs of the audit process (i.e., the audited financial statements).
Finally, most financial reporting quality measures are continuous, but with little consensus on their measurement and high
levels of measurement error.