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The Accounting Review 1–19.
Published: 05 April 2025
... for the subordinate’s work product. In contrast, we investigate what effect the apprenticeship model has on supervising auditors. We theorize that coaching an apprentice activates norms that are accompanied by an ideal audit quality focus. In an experiment with experienced auditors, we find that salient apprenticeship...
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The Accounting Review (2025) 100 (2): 189–218.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Ole-Kristian Hope; Cyndia Wang; Yaqian Wu; Min Zhang ABSTRACT Many countries have converged their domestic auditing standards with International Standards on Auditing (ISA). This study provides global empirical evidence on first-order determinants of audit quality by examining whether...
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The Accounting Review 1–29.
Published: 23 January 2025
...Shaohua He; Ling Lei Lisic; Liang Tan; K. Philip Wang ABSTRACT Whether audit firms should disclose financial statements is controversial among investors, practitioners, and regulators. The debate centers on whether audit firms’ financial statements provide information about audit quality. Using...
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The Accounting Review 1–32.
Published: 16 January 2025
... University, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA. Editor’s note: Accepted by Joseph J. Gerakos, under the Senior Editorship of W. Robert Knechel. 15 02 2022 26 11 2024 11 12 2024 2025 auditing audit markets audit quality auditor selection two-sided matching...
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The Accounting Review (2025) 100 (1): 437–464.
Published: 01 January 2025
... agree with the feedback message, perceiving it as consistent and well reasoned. We observe a range of auditor reactions (satisfaction with and motivated to use inspection feedback), responses at the engagement level (improvements to audit quality and inspection risk or impression management...
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The Accounting Review (2025) 100 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the PCAOB claims that its inspection findings and process are designed to increase audit quality, there is limited empirical evidence to support this claim. We examine whether changes in revenue-deficient audit engagements are associated with subsequent year changes in client revenue quality. A revenue...
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The Accounting Review (2024) 99 (6): 297–324.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Tao Ma; Chi Wan; Yakun Wang; Yuping Zhao ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between audit quality and office-level auditor turnover. Using resumes of over 106,000 Big 4 auditors, we find that audit offices with higher turnover have a greater likelihood of client annual report restatements...
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The Accounting Review (2024) 99 (5): 65–95.
Published: 01 September 2024
... are only present when employees have lower mobility across professions and geographies, consistent with audit offices’ power in the local labor market explaining the results. Collectively, our findings highlight the importance of labor market power in understanding audit quality. Data Availability: Data...
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The Accounting Review (2023) 98 (5): 323–351.
Published: 01 September 2023
... audit office improves audit quality and results in an audit fee discount, even after controlling for the product similarity effect, auditors’ overall technological expertise, and industry specialization. Both an increase in audit quality and a decrease in audit fees occur if a client firm exhibits...
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The Accounting Review (2023) 98 (5): 61–97.
Published: 01 September 2023
... audit quality auditor style financial-statement comparability SEC comment letters The merits of centralized and decentralized decision making have been discussed extensively in economics and management since Hayek (1945) . A noted feature of centralized decision making (CDM) is that it may...
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The Accounting Review (2023) 98 (2): 59–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to audit fees or audit quality (measured with several accrual and misstatement-based measures) for CAM adopters in the post-period relative to the control group of nonadopters. This is consistent with the majority of non-U.S. studies ( Gutierrez et al. 2018 ; Bédard et al. 2019 ; Liao et al. 2019...
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The Accounting Review (2023) 98 (1): 423–451.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Karen Ton ABSTRACT Auditor knowledge is a key element in explaining the supply of audit quality, yet understanding of the drivers of this knowledge in the archival literature is limited. This study uses an archival approach to examine whether the sharing of auditors among firms in banking...
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The Accounting Review (2022) 97 (7): 401–428.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Evgeny Petrov; Phillip C. Stocken ABSTRACT We study the determinants of auditor industry specialization, the impact of specialization on fees and audit quality, and a regulator's optimal choice of audit standards in the presence of specialization. In industries with correlated firm values...
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The Accounting Review (2022) 97 (3): 107–129.
Published: 01 May 2022
... with whom we conducted extensive interviews for giving their time. This study was supported by a Center for Audit Quality Research Advisory Board grant. We thank Margot Cella and Lauren Tuite of the CAQ for facilitating access to participants, members of the Research Advisory Board, especially John DeMelis...
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The Accounting Review (2022) 97 (3): 249–277.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in an industry audited by both merging audit firms, those audited by the audit firm less specialized in that industry belong to the treatment group, while all other clients belong to the control group. We find an economically significant improvement in audit quality (as reflected in a reduction in financial...
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The Accounting Review (2022) 97 (2): 317–347.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gladys Lee; Vic Naiker; Christopher R. Stewart ABSTRACT This study examines whether the audit quality of Big 4 audit firms is affected by an audit office's proximity to more target universities for appointing staff auditors. We identify these target universities using a recruitment map of a Big 4...