Using proprietary Australian Tax Office (ATO) data, we document the size, asset allocation and expenses for a sample of 209,420 Australian self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) for the three years to June 2010. Two recent Government reviews have highlighted a lack of basic knowledge of the...

Using proprietary data, this study examines auditor industry specialisation, professional brand effects and non-audit services (NAS) in the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) sector, the fastest growing and largest segment of the Australian $1.75 trillion retirement savings industry. We...

Prior research documents impediments to raising external equity finance faced by early stage and R&D firms. The capital structure literature predicts that these firms prefer to finance their projects with internal funds, with equity used as a last resort. We examine the 2011 changes to the R&D...

This paper examines intra-Big 4 audit fee premiums in the Australian market. During the period examined (2002–2004), there is both Big 4 and intra-Big 4 market dominance. The three largest firms – the ‘Big 3' (Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) – hold over 80 per cent of...