This study examines the determinants and consequences of voluntary adoption of non-local accounting principles (non-local GAAP) by firms listed and domiciled in the European Union (EU). We restrict ourselves to the two predominant internationally accepted sets of accounting standards:...

The central issue in this paper is the creation of an internal market for audit services within the European Union (EU). It provides an analysis of the impact of differences between national auditing regulations on intra-EU trade in audit services. To that end, the paper distinguishes three...

Auditing is claimed to have become more and more a global discipline. As a result of the expansion of the international audit firm networks, and the proliferation of International Standards on Auditing, differences between national auditing practices seem to have diminished. Surprisingly,...

The audit risk model has become an extremely important element in audit practice. The basic intuition behind the model is that changes in risk should affect the work of the auditor. However, little systematic empirical evidence has been published on the assessment of audit risk and its effect on...

In the Netherlands, the standard form of the opinion paragraph of the auditor's report refers to the financial statements giving a getrouw beeld, a phrase which in its literal meaning and material content closely resembles the British 'true and fair view'. However, in Dutch reporting law, the...