This research paper examines the recent amalgamation of commercial banks in Bangladesh, focusing on its impact and implications for the banking industry, economy, and stakeholders. The paper explores the reasons behind the increasing trend of bank mergers and acquisitions in Bangladesh,...

We consider an environment wherein a multidisciplinary firm providing audit (AS) and non-audit services (NAS) competes with an AS-specialty firm and a NAS-specialty firm, and show how we should intervene in the markets for AS quality improvement. We assume that the multidisciplinary firm faces...

The objective of this article is to discuss the role of financial inclusion in combating financial crime. It was found that financial crime is a challenge in society. Financial crime is any action or omission that leads to unlawful or illegal financial dealings. Many countries are seeking ways...

Forensic accounting is one of the modern domains of accounting that incorporates special knowledge and a group of skills that are utilized to fight financial corruption and creative accounting, support legal action against such practices and tackle the resulting consequences. The research at...

The outbreak of a novel type of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the majority of countries around the world has had many negative implications on almost all aspects of life. Currently, about a quarter of the population of Earth is quarantined at their homes, social distancing is effective everywhere,...

With an emphasis on the influence of Big Four auditors in the US between 2000 and 2024, this paper explores the factors that influence audit fees and associated non-audit fees. We examine trends in audit, tax-related, and miscellaneous fees using a dataset that includes 1,187 auditors and 13,822...

This paper has the following aims: - To display the nature of the contractual civil responsibility to wich is potentially exposed the external auditor of financial statements; - To determine its practical consequences; and - To contribute to accomplish a link between the legal knowledge and the...

Responsibility for preventing and detecting fraud rest with management entities. Although the auditor is not and cannot be held responsible for preventing fraud and errors, in your work, he can have a positive role in preventing fraud and errors by deterring their occurrence. The auditor should...

To be able to assist in a credible business in our country accounting unit itself had to adapt on the one hand to the new trends of harmonization and standardization of existing on the international front, and on the other hand the new requirements of the environment business in the process of...

This paper considers the responses of six audit firms, to the four options presented by the European Commission in reforming auditors’ liability. Whilst agreeing with a limitation in audit firms’ liability, it does not consider the means of limitation, as provided by the European Commission...