In this scholarly investigation, we meticulously assess the effectiveness of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics in predicting financial hardship across a cohort of 3,111 publicly traded companies on the Chinese stock exchange from 2012-2022. This study employs Python software...

Paper's objectives: The main purpose of the article was to identify the level of concentration on the market of audit services provided to public companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The additional aim of the article was to identify the level of rotation among companies providing audit...

Prior research has established that from 2000 to 2007, auditors incorporated clients' financial reporting risk in their pricing of audit engagements (Charles et al. 2010; Doogar et al. 2010, 2013). However, regulators have expressed concern that the economic downturn and pressure from clients to...

We examine whether controlling shareholders' financial arrangements and financial risk affect auditors' assessments and perceptions of firms' financial reporting risk. Adopting a sample of Chinese firms covering the years 2003 to 2016, we find that audit fees are higher for firms where...