The Accounting Review Vol. 100 No. 3 2025
Private Equity Fund Reporting Quality, External Monitors, and Third-Party Service Providers
Abstract
We describe variation in the reporting quality (i.e., accuracy and bias of reported net asset values (NAVs)) of private equity (PE) funds across types of external monitors (investors and auditors) and third-party service providers (valuation specialists, marketers, and administrators). In contrast to public markets, we find only limited evidence that reporting quality varies with the composition and types of investors in PE funds. We observe, however, that reporting quality varies with auditor involvement and the use of third-party service providers; these associations often differ across buyout (BO) and venture capital (VC) funds and from those observed in public markets. Our evidence is important to investors and regulators, especially now that PE supersedes public markets as the main vehicle to raise capital and as regulators increase their focus on private markets. Data Availability: Data used in this study are available from public sources listed in the paper.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-2023-0291
- Volume
- 100
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 187-219
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref