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We argue that conflicting estimates of auditors' industry leadership premia documented in prior research reflect model misspecification. We show that leadership measures can be expected to identify different auditors as leaders depending on the basis (assets, fees or auditee counts) used to...
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We present the first large-sample empirical evidence on U.S. auditors' responses to changes in entity-level audit risk during 2006-2007, the period leading-up to the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Treating fiscal year 2005 engagements as a pre-crisis benchmark, we find that audit attention...
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<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>The adoption of business risk audit (BRA) approaches during the 1990s by several leading audit firms has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and commentary. Under BRA, the auditor responds to the increasing complexity of auditee financial reports by acquiring a deep and...
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Several reforms of the Sarbanes Oxley Act were designed to strengthen the vigilance exercised by audit committee members in their oversight of independent financial-statement audits of U.S. public companies. After SOX, a shift occurred in the audit committee labor market such that more...
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A restatement occurs when a previously issued financial statement contains a misstatement and this misstatement is detected and corrected. Higher audit quality lowers restatement probability by reducing misstatements, but it increases restatement probability by increasing the probability that...
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