Despite the number of studies on bankruptcy prediction using financial ratios, very little is known about how external audit information can contribute to anticipating financial distress. A handful of papers have shown that a combination of ratios and audit data is significant for predictive...

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...

The Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP) has been examining financial reporting of companies listed in the regulated market in Germany since 1.7.2005. The paper analyzes the enforcement disclosure quality between 2006 and 2008 by comparing the published activity reports of the panel with...

This study aims to provide evidence of the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on audit fees in Jordan. Our study is based on publicly available information obtained from a sample of annual reports from Jordanian industrial companies listed in Amman Stock...

Through a cross sectional and time series analysis the paper provides a comparative investigation of audited versus non-audited performance indicators in term of incremental information content to assess future share price of European listed companies. Net Operating Profit expressed by EBIT and...

This paper is comprised of many different components that relates to the role and function of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board), including their adoption of Auditing Standard Number 5 (AS No. 5). The topics that will be discussed include the establishment of the...

This study first identifies the importance of audit report for an organization and then tries to find out the quality of audit report of the listed Public Limited Companies (PLCs) in Bangladesh. The ten criteria were identified from the guidelines suggested by International Standard on Auditing...