This study examines the relations between audit quality, audit firm size, and financial performance. This study estimates audit quality of audit firms from human capital-related factors, such as educational level of auditors, work experience of auditors, and professional training. From the...

This study is the first to compare the financial performance of audit firms at different life cycle stages in distinct market segments. In terms of market segmentation, total samples are categorized into three subsamples: large, medium, and small audit firms. Based on the Taiwanese auditing...

This paper examines the lagged association between training and financial performance of audit firms. Based on a panel data of 136 audit firms in Taiwan from 1992 to 1998, this paper constructs a year fixed effect regression model to test our hypotheses. Both partners' and assistants' training...

This study examines competition level and merger in Taiwanese audit industry over a long time interval of 1992-2008. Total public accounting firms are divided into four sub-samples in terms of market segment, including big, large, medium, and small firms. Next, based on prior studies and service...

This study investigates the salary differentials between male and female employees of audit firms in Taiwan. We employ the transcendental logarithmic (translog) revenue function to estimate the productivities of employees and then compare them with compensations of employees. Total samples are...

This study examines the effects of service innovation on financial performance of proprietorship audit firms in Taiwan. This study divides total sample into three business strategy categories, including conventional, non-conventional, and general firms. Non-conventional firms have the highest...

In this study, we use panel cointegration methods to investigate the relationship between stock prices and earnings-per-share (EPS). Furthermore, we consider whether stock prices respond to EPS under the different level of growth rate of operating revenue. The empirical result indicated that the...

In this study, we use the newly developed momentum threshold unit root and cointegration tests advanced by Enders and Granger (1998), and Enders and Siklos (2001) to investigate if there is any asymmetric adjustment in long-run prices and dividends in Taiwan¡¦s stock market during June 1991 to...

In this study, we use the newly developed momentum threshold unit root and cointegration tests advanced by Enders and Granger (1998), and Enders and Siklos (2001) to investigate if there is any asymmetric adjustment in long-run prices and dividends in Taiwan¡¦s stock market during June 1991 to...

Taiwan established the Certified Public Bookkeepers Act to regulate tax agents in providing services to small and medium-sized enterprises in 2004. The Act enhances the capabilities of tax agents in competing business with auditors. Auditors face increased competition in rendering services to...