This study develops machine learning models to predict audit quality by using a wide range of data describing detailed characteristics of accounting firms, individual audit partners, and public companies in China. It constructs the surprise score, a new measure of audit quality, calculated as...

Emerging technologies like data analytics and machine learning are impacting the accounting profession. In particular, significant changes are anticipated in audit and assurance procedures because of those impacts. One such potential change is audit sampling. As audit sampling only provides a...

Managerial estimates are ubiquitous in accounting: most balance sheet and income statement items are based on estimates; some, such as the pension and employee stock options expenses, derive from multiple estimates. These estimates are affected by objective estimation errors, as well as by...