...Songsheng Chen; Gopal V. Krishnan; Wenying Li; Yinqi Zhang ABSTRACT We contribute to the debate on whether the “Big N effect” on audit quality is due to client self-selection by controlling for pre-audit earnings quality. Using data from the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants, we...

... audit quality are associated with high financial reporting quality and that this is evident in firms with high audit quality showing a weaker negative (positive) relationship between forecast accuracy (dispersion) and political connections and high levels of Bumiputera directors. Overall, the findings...

...Matthew J. Behrend; Sarfraz Khan; Young Woo Ko; Sung-Jin Park ABSTRACT Do abnormally high or low audit fees reflect audit quality? In this paper, we re-examine this issue after controlling for the confounding effect of audit hours by using a sample of public firms in the Korean audit market, which...

... on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We assess whether audit duality influences audit quality, measured by modifications to the standard audit report. Using a sample of public Russian companies from 2004 to 2016, we find that audit duality significantly reduces auditors' propensity to modify...

...Jengfang Chen; Rong-Ruey Duh; Kuei-Fu Li ABSTRACT While mandatory audit fee disclosure makes fee information transparent, there have been concerns about the impact of price adjustment on audit quality. Taking advantage of a regulatory change in Taiwan that required public companies to disclose...

...Chu Chen; Giorgio Gotti; Don Herrmann; Kathryn Schumann ABSTRACT We test whether geographical location, audit quality, and equity offering play a role in the earnings quality of reverse merger (RM) firms. We provide evidence that, contrary to the popular focus on foreign reverse mergers...

...Dan A. Simunic; Minlei Ye; Ping Zhang ABSTRACT We summarize the analyses detailed in two papers on the relation between audit quality, auditing standards, and legal regimes. We show that optimal auditing standards for a country are a complex function of the legal system in that country. We...