Purpose – This paper aims to identify the significant determinants of the production and profitability of audit services in Tunisia. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a sample of 299 audit engagements from Tunisian audit firms and spanning the period from 2016 to 2018, the researchers...

The study was conducted to examine the effect of IFRS adoption on audit and non-audit fee and also the relationship between the big4 audit firm and audit and non-audit fees. Using a sample of financial and non-financial firms in Ghana, the results show that IFRS adoption has a positive and...

Purpose: The business risk of patent litigation contributes to auditors' professional skepticism and thereby results in different audit pricing decisions. Patent infringement is viewed as a specific news and thereby results in different economic consequences. This study examines the association...

The audit market is subject to ongoing regulation to ensure or improve the quality of audit services. For this reason, international research on the audit market is highly popular. As part of this discussion, pricing is considered one of the most relevant aspects of audits. However, a remarkable...

Audit fees are deemed as one of the factors that might influence the perceptions of public toward external auditors. The problem statement concentrated if there is a significant relationship between audit fees and audit quality through the mediators: total assets, origin of company, audit-firm...

This paper analyzes whether the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations set by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have influenced the auditing fees charged to football clubs. In addition, it explores the determinants of audit fees. We used a two-sample t-test with equal variances to...

Disclosure quality is a matter of great importance in the accounting literature. This study examines the effect of audit fees, audit firm size and audit opinion on the quality of disclosures. It focuses on a sample of low-quality financial statements in Jordan that have been reported as breaches...

The paper examines the extent which risk management committee and corporate governance committee predict audit fees in Nigeria. We employed random panel data (unbalance) regression analysis to establish whether risk management committee and corporate governance committee affect audit fees. We...

This study uses data from companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and audit fees. Full sample results reveal a significant negative relationship between corporate governance and audit fees, and subsample results further show...

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether engagement quality control review (EQCR) hours affect auditor changes and whether abnormal audit fees and changes in management have moderating effects on the relation between EQCR hours and auditor changes. The logit regression model is designed...