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The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion shopping and pay an abnormal audit fee only when their degree of accounting...
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: China recently imposed a minimum auditing fee requirement which forces some auditing firms to charge higher fees to their …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan … of China the auditors only consider the Big 4 audit firm effect as a reputational tool while pricing their audit activity …. The auditors in China totally ignore the client risk and complexity of business transactions which may be problematic for …
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disclosure of investors’ site visits information of firms listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in China, we find that …
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The paper examines the extent which risk management committee and corporate governance committee predict audit fees in Nigeria. We employed random panel data (unbalance) regression analysis to establish whether risk management committee and corporate governance committee affect audit fees. We...
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This paper focuses on the reform of accounting standards in China in 2007 and investigates its impact on equilibrium … standards in China. Deeper analysis suggests that (1) the implementation of the new IFRS-based Chinese Accounting Standards … significant impact on audit pricing in China. …
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This study uses data from companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and audit fees. Full sample results reveal a significant negative relationship between corporate governance and audit fees, and subsample results further show...
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This study examines whether auditors are employed as a monitoring mechanism to mitigate agency problems arising from different types of controlling shareholders. In a context of concentrated ownership and poor investor protection, controlling shareholders can easily expropriate wealth from...
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We provide the first partner tenure and mandatory rotation analysis for a large cross-section of U.S. publicly listed firms over an extended period. We analyze the effects on audit quality as well as on audit pricing and production. On average, we find no evidence for audit quality declines over...
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This paper analyzes whether the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations set by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have influenced the auditing fees charged to football clubs. In addition, it explores the determinants of audit fees. We used a two-sample t-test with equal variances to...
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