This study examines how audit-partner gender-diversity impacts audit quality, using data from China, where two partners are assigned to lead each engagement. Female and male partners bring different resources, in the form of information, expertise, experience, and perspectives that could result...

This study draws on both audit quality and trust theories to examine the effects of financial restatements on the auditor-client trust relationship, as evidenced by changes in audit fees of the auditor's other non-restating office-level clients in the year following the restatement announcement....