This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and auditor’s performance in Iranian listed firms. The sample included 128 firms on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2020. The research method was descriptive-correlational, and the relationship between research variables...

We find that when a manager concedes on an initial potential adjustment, auditors place more trust in the manager and propose smaller aggregate adjustments. Furthermore, ingratiation has a marginally positive effect on auditor trust when the manager first concedes. However, our results indicate...

Audit expectation gap is a phenomenon that presently attracts the attention of researchers all over the world. The basic problem is in the area of how the public perceives the role of the auditor, which in most cases centers on the prevention of fraud and irregularities. On the other hand the...