We find that the readability of financial footnotes and risk management committees contributes to audit fees. We use observations from 758 companies listed in Indonesia for 2014-2018, and moderated regression analysis is used for statistical analysis. The results show that the readability of...

Banks impose a variety of account fees, and credit card issuers impose a variety of fees related to card usage. Using detailed data from a 2021 representative diary survey of US consumers, we investigate whether lower-income consumers and Black consumers are more likely to pay bank account or...

We examine whether supply shocks in the audit partner labor market induce clients to switch audit partners. We argue that audit partners in their early careers (i.e., junior partners) charge low audit fees to attract clients, which induces client firms to switch from senior partners to junior...

Purpose: The business risk of patent litigation contributes to auditors' professional skepticism and thereby results in different audit pricing decisions. Patent infringement is viewed as a specific news and thereby results in different economic consequences. This study examines the association...

We investigate the impact of remote auditing on audit quality and the good practices undertaken by auditors to improve audit quality in remote auditing. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in China provides an opportune testing ground for analyzing the impact of remote auditing on audit...

This study investigates how customer firms’ data breaches can affect their suppliers' audit fees within the supply chain relationship. Based on the economic bond that exists through the customer firms’ and supplier firms' supply chains, we examine whether data breach incidents of customer...

This study investigates whether auditors’ experiences with their clients’ cybersecurity incidents affect their subsequent audit efforts with non-breached clients and help these clients reduce cybersecurity risks. Using data from the Audit Analytics Cybersecurity database and the Privacy...

In the current study, we investigate the impacts of social capital (SC) and intellectual capital (IC) on audit fees among the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Since the criteria for the norms and the networks are extremely correlated, we used a principal component analysis...

This study contributes to the nascent literature on the economic consequences of critical audit matters (CAMs) by examining how tax-related CAMs (TaxCAM) are associated with a company’s tax risk and audit fees. We predict and find that if a company’s tax accounts involve a high degree of...

We examine the relation between the proportion of a firm’s top management team that is appointed during a CEO’s tenure (i.e., top management team, or TMT, co-option) and audit pricing. Using a sample of U.S. firms during the 2001-2018 period, we find that TMT co-option is positively...

We exploit the UK Bribery Act 2010 to test whether the pricing of audit services changes with the risk of the client-firm engaging in bribery. Adopting a triple-difference design, we show that subject firms operating in countries perceived as more corrupt, where bribery may be necessary to get...

Prior research documents improvements in pre-acquisition outcomes when acquirer and target firms engage the same audit firm to perform their financial statement audits before the acquisition. In contrast to prior studies, we examine whether the advantages of engaging a common auditor prior to an...

This paper argues that assertive audit partners deliver higher quality audits because they can perform stronger in the course of auditor-client negotiations. Borrowing from political psychology literature, I use the political involvement of individual audit partners as the proxy for...

We examine the effect of related party transactions (RPTs) on audit fees in Indian public companies. RPTs can be used to manipulate financial statements as well as transfer wealth between firms and their related parties, and the presence of RPTs increases audit risk. We find that related party...

We find that the readability of financial footnotes and risk management committees contributes to audit fees. We use observations from 758 companies listed in Indonesia for 2014–2018, and moderated regression analysis is used for statistical analysis. The results show that the readability of...

This paper analyzes whether sustainable investors are sensitive to fees and whether investors in funds with a higher sustainability rating are more sensitive to fees than investors in non-sustainable funds. Using an international sample of equity mutual funds, I find that they in general are...

Borrowed from the relevant research on the impact of name uniqueness on one's personality, our study extends the research perspective to its impact on external auditors. Using the data of Chinese listed firms in 2009-2019, we find a significantly positive relationship between CEOs' name...

The present study aims to investigate the effects of mandatory requirements of audit firm rotation on earnings management among companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The study population consists of 1030 observations and 103 companies listed on the TSE during the years 2003-2012;...

We find that risk management committees and BIG4 audit firms contribute to audit fees. We use observations of 895 companies registered in Indonesia for 2014-2018, and to answer our hypothesis we used ordinary least squares analysis. The results show that BIG4 weakens the relationship between RMC...

This paper examines the effects of CFO narcissism on audit fees in China. Using the size of CFO signatures in annual audit reports to measure individual narcissism, we find that CFO narcissism is associated with higher audit fees. We find empirical evidence that CFO narcissism significantly...

On 15 December 2015, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) passed Rule 3211, requiring audit firms registered with PCAOB in the U.S. to disclose the audit engagement partner’s name in the Form AP, effective 31 January 2017. The regulation aims to improve the transparency and...

Trotz der immensen ökonomischen Bedeutung von Versicherungen für marktwirtschaftlich orientierte Volkswirtschaften haben sich bis dato nur wenige nationale und internationale Forschungsarbeiten dem Abschlussprüfermarkt für Versicherungsunternehmen gewidmet. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich...

Purpose: Although a small part of arbitrage trading, short selling has a significant impact on capital markets. This study empirically examines relationships among short selling, earnings managements, and auditor behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: We employed short selling and abnormal...

Institutional changes inevitably impose adjustment costs on firms while also generating benefits. However, empirical evidence regarding the adjustment costs of institutional changes is limited, with much of the focus centered on benefits. Using data on China's A-share listed companies from 2010...

This study examined the effect of auditor independence on financial reporting quality of deposit money banks in Nigeria with Financial Reporting Quality as the dependent variable; Audit Fee, Audit Firm Size and Audit Meeting as independent variables, Debt Ratio as control variable. The sample...

The paper aims to investigate the association between current year audit opinion and the pricing of the next year audit mission and whether this relationship differs with different nature of ownership (family – non-family) in the Egyptian setting. Using a sample of 358 firm-year observations...

The audit committee of every Company was established with defined responsibilities of monitoring and supervising financial reporting, internal control system, internal and external audit functions among others to avoid the fraudulent and unethical practice. Despite the establishment of an audit...

The extant auditing literature documents an inconsistent relationship between audit fees and market concentration. In this paper, we argue that the impact of market concentration on audit fees is auditor and auditee specific. Based on the fact that the audit services to an auditee are generally...

We investigate whether the risk management committee and independent commissioner contribute to the audit fee. We use 720 observations from Indonesian listed companies for 2015-2018. We use ordinary least square analysis to address our hypotheses. The result shows that the proportion of...

This study analyzes whether the company's intangible assets will affect the audit fee paid to the auditor and risk management committee as a moderating variable. The sample of this study consisted of 656 observations from companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for 2010-2018 from...

Auditors of foreign cross listed firms face liability arising from the nature of the institutional monitoring framework of legal claims that can potentially be brought against the auditor in both the home country and the US. This paper is the first to document the relationship between auditor...

This study examines whether auditors incorporate their clients’ corporate culture into audit pricing. We construct a measure of corporate collaboration culture using textual analysis of public firms’ 10-K reports. We find that firms with more collaboration culture pay lower audit fees. We...

We examine whether engagement partners who have recently been associated with client restatements experience increased audit fee pressures from their non-restating clients. Using data from the United States (U.S.) and Taiwan, we find evidence of lower audit fees among non-restating companies...

This paper empirically investigates whether audit quality and audit fees differ for audit clients receiving positive media attention. Specifically, we use the Wall Street Journal's top 250 ranking of best-managed companies to investigate the impact of positive media attention. Employing a...

Audit research documents audit fee discounts associated with an auditor change, and that audit fees revert to average levels within a few years. This paper provides exploratory insights into the perceptions of board members vis-à-vis pricing practices used by auditors to achieve audit fee...

The study examines the effect of audit committees connectedness, measured using network centrality from social network theory, on audit fees. We also test the effect of the same on audit quality and audit timeliness. We find that network centrality measures of audit committees are positively and...