In this study, we develop and test a framework suggesting that auditors consider three sources of business risk when setting audit fees: (1) the level of audit investment and residual (acceptable) audit risk, (2) litigation exposure unrelated to audit risk, and (3) residual business risk....

In order to reduce costs, audit firms have begun transferring audit tasks to offshore locations in countries such as India. Consequently, new audit associates no longer perform these tasks. They are, however, asked to review them. If gaining experience completing audit tasks is an important...

Using an experiment, this study investigates whether including additional audit-procedure and/or accounting-estimate details in the audit report influences how openly managers communicate with their auditors. Extant research has focused primarily on the benefits of various changes to the...

We examine whether financial reporting quality improves after firms voluntarily adopt a compensation clawback provision. Clawback provisions allow companies to recoup excess incentive pay in the event of an accounting restatement, and are intended to ex ante deter managers from publishing...