This study evaluates whether auditor use of root cause analysis (RCA) for an identified client misstatement affects auditors’ assessments of underlying control issues and materiality in an integrated audit setting. We also test whether auditor cognitive style moderates these effects given...

Regulators around the world are concerned about the potentially harmful effects of high audit market concentration on audit pricing and quality. However, results in the overall literature have failed to reach consensus on this issue. We contribute to this debate by arguing that the audit market...

This paper empirically investigates the association between codetermination on the audit committee (AC) and audit quality. Using a sample of 655 firm-year observations related to German CDAX companies, our results indicate that the presence of employee representatives on the AC is negatively...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between gender diversity on the audit committees and the incidence of financial restatements.Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 683 firm-year observations from Iranian listed companies for the period 2013 to...