The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

The effectiveness and efficiency of the internal corporate governance structure depends on different governance bodies within the organization. As crucial parts of good governance they provide constituting, monitoring and controlling tasks concerning the risk management and internal control...

The European audit reform contains the implementation of an external mandatory auditor rotation (audit firm rotation) and a separation of audit and non audit duties to increase auditor independence. The central question is, whether these regulation measures are connected with an increased...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to summarize the key findings of meta-analyses in accounting, auditing, and corporate governance research.Design/methodology/approach: A structured literature review on 63 meta-analyses related to (1) financial accounting, (2) management accounting, (3)...